Speak to Umashankar Mukkara and he would come across as a regular guy. Get him talking about his company, CloudByte, and he transforms into an inspiring leader! He speaks in a soft and understated manner that you would most associate with a technologist. He also exudes a great sense of passion towards the problem that he and his team at CloudByte are solving.
Plivo is a telecom service provider based on the cloud platform, which helps do everything the normal EPABX systems can do. So if you own a call centre and want a solution to receive, handle and distribute all calls, then Plivo is the one for you. Setting up of IVR, call forwarding, routing, etc are all different use cases where Plivo comes handy. It is also popular among individual developers who want to have a personal phone number to be put on their blogs.
The accolades that Mu Sigma has accumulated over the years is a rapidly rising toll. But, like all great companies, the core of the company is built around the beliefs and ideas of an intrinsically curious person. Founder, Dhiraj C Rajaram, had a novel idea which bore no intentions towards entrepreneurship.
But as fate would have it, Dhiraj’s novel idea manifested itself in a hugely successful entrepreneurial venture and the rest, as they say, is history. Read on to know inside stories of one of India’s biggest entrepreneurial success story:
This article is part of the Culture Series we’ll be carrying as a run up to the Startup Jobs Fair, India’s first exclusive campaign to connect the most promising talent with the most exciting startups. This series will bring out the culture at some of the most dynamic startups that have managed to scale and [...] Read More
Given the rapid pace at which the Indian internet space is growing and the burgeoning interest in the startups and entrepreneurs to build the next BIG blue chip company from here, we see many interesting consumer web ideas and startups being tried and tested. In an effort to discover and showcase some of these high potential consumer internet startups – YourStory.in in partnership with Qualcomm Ventures has been running the WebSparks online campaign to provide visibility, support and meaningful mentorship to the finalists and winners each month.
AppSurfer’s innovative try-before-you-use system for Android apps has now come to smartphones. It announced the launch of its smartphone app, that can run apps on your Android phone without the need to purchase or download them. We got our hands on the app and played with it, to see if running a virtual machine(VM) on a smartphone really works.
Here is the video interview of Amr Awadallah, on the state of Big Data companies in the world today
What is Big Data? How does it help?
Amr Awadallah, CTO of Cloudera, one of the most popular cloud firms explained at a Yourstory-Accel Partners event in Bangalore.
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The last 2 to 3 years have seen enormous amounts of data generated from consumer interactions on the web. Corresponding market needs have evolved ranging from collecting interesting datasets to deriving analyses from it.Big players have already been part of this game in a way or the other.
Of late, the surge in cloud computing and other big data technologies like Hadoop and NoSQL have opened opportunities for newer players too.
Founded by entrepreneurs Nitin Rao and Kaustuv De Biswas, Sunglass is a cloud-based environment that democratizes design by allowing designers to collaborate on a model from different parts of the world. Both MIT graduates, we earlier got in touch with the duo for a detailed interview and since then, they’ve raised $1.7 million from General Catalyst Partners, Mitch Kapor and others. Now close to a 30 member team spilt between Delhi and San Francisco, the company has been making significant technological advancements and in a new development has partnered with DIYROCKETS to launch the world’s first collaborative 3D printed rocket engine design competition.
