Though Paul Allen had been suffering from Hodgkin's lymphoma since his Microsoft days, the current form of cancer was so severe that it led to the death of the Seattle-born billionaire businessman.

Paul Allen was born on 21 January 1953 in Seattle, Washington, United States. He was a student in Washington State University (WSU), but dropped out of college after two years. In 1968 he met Bill Gates and in 1975 they both founded Microsoft. In March 1983, he officially resigned from Microsoft. Watch BusinessToday.In video.

Allen left Microsoft in 1983, before the company became a corporate juggernaut, following a dispute with Gates, but his share of their original partnership allowed him to spend the rest of his life and billions of dollars on yachts, art, rock music, sports teams, brain research and real estate.

This mobile-first job test-prep provider thrives on 3Cs - convenience, cost and credibility.

P S Jayakumar, an ex-citibanker turned entrepreneur, had joined Bank of Baroda in October, 2015. Jayakumar is a chartered accountant by qualification.

The Flipkart group has the horizontal e-commerce platform, of course, but also owns the fashion platforms, Myntra and Jabong

Alibaba co-founder and chairman Jack Ma plans to retire from the Chinese e-commerce giant on Monday to devote his time to philanthropy focused on education, he told the New York Times in an interview.

The mega deal, announced in May this year, is the largest so far in the Indian retail space. This is also Walmart's biggest acquisition and will help it compete more aggressively with its US-based rival Amazon.

The policy will be the latest in a series of proposals that seek to spur data localisation in India, as the government finalises an overarching data protection law.

The maker of Reva, India's first electric car, Chetan Maini and Uday Khemka's SUN Mobility has joined hands with American tech giant Microsoft to build a smart network to effectively deploy its universal energy infrastructure.

China agrees to cut tariffs on Indian cancer drugsChina said on Monday it had reached an agreement with India to reduce tariffs and increase imports of Indian medicines, particularly anti-cancer drugs. The decision was part of its efforts to broaden trade relations amid its on-going spat with the United States. Both India and China slashed import tariffs of a range of products starting July 1, following the fourth round of negotiations under the Asia Pacific Trade Agreement (APT...

Facebook's stock has not only recovered from the hammering it took in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal earlier this year, but spiked 2.4 per cent to hit an all-time high on Friday.

Long before food tech became a catchword, Sandipan Mitra, Co-founder and CEO of HungerBox, a business-to-business (B2B) food tech start-up, started an online food ordering company in 2007 and named it HungryBangalore.com.

Minority investors holding 60 percent of Flipkart's shares \"acting together, may require Flipkart to effect an initial public offering\" (IPO) four years after the close of the Walmart-Flipkart transaction, the Arkansas-based retailer said in a regulatory filing.