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Small business growing? Maharashtra sees rise in seed money given out

The seed money scheme has been implemented by the state government to encourage unemployed to take up self-employment ventures through industry, service and business by providing soft loans from institutional finance to meet part of the margin money.

Smriti Irani, Sushma Swaraj or Rajnath Singh: Who is Modi's most social minister?

All of the big guns in Modi's cabinet have made sure that they have a fairly strong following and engagement level on both Twitter and Facebook.

For mobile, Asia and Africa are bigger than US. Check out this graphic

If you thought mobile is big in America, here's a surprise for you. In Asia and Africa, people use internet through their mobile phones much more than most other countries.

Slow growth in server market in 1Q14: Gartner

Worldwide server shipments grew 1.4 percent in the first quarter of 2014, while server revenue declined 4.1 percent year over year, according to Gartner.

Graphic: How Infosys stock moved since NR Narayana Murthy's return

The IT giant's woes have been compounded by the fact that Srinivas was the tenth senior executive to quit the firm.

Forget Smriti Irani, there are 6 other ministers who aren't even 12th pass

It turns out Smriti Irani isn't the only one who's not in a graduate in the current council of ministers.

India tablet market struggled to attract buyers in 1Q14: IDC

According to the International Data Corporation (IDC), the India tablet market shipments for Q1 2014 stood at 0.78 million units, representing a year-on-year drop of -32.8% over Q1 2013.

Repairing economy: Chill Jaitley, these graphs show Chidu's 'magic' has started working

The new Finance Minister can make the most of some stability in the economy to turn it around.

IDC sees a sluggish start for India PC market in 1Q14

The overall India PC market continued to decline in Q1 2014, largely owing to poor end-user demand.

Gartner reveals the key to IT program management

Gartner's five-type framework can reduce risk, enhance oversight and improve success rates.

Chart: Which segment is the biggest driver of revenues for Reliance Retail?

Reliance's value format stores are best exemplified by Reliance Market, Reliance Fresh and Reliance Mart outlets.

Chart: It took Sensex 11 years to go from 3,000 to 24,000

Sensex is now a little over four times what it was in 2000

Infographic: Flipkart acquires Myntra in game-changing Indian e-comm deal

It's finally happened. After months of speculation about possible details of a Flipkart-Myntra merger, the two homegrown e-commerce announced their merger, in what Reuters reports is a $300 million deal.

Mark these dates, investors. After Modi win, these are likely to be next big triggers

But it's not just tomorrow that investors should be watching out for. A Credit Suisse report notes that the bigger events will be once the new government is formed.

Why it helps to be a crorepati when you're contesting elections

In case you thought it didn't make a difference if you are a crorepati, turns out it does.

Asia Pacific CIOs splurge on cloud, while their global counterparts prefer spending on BI

IT leaders in Asia Pacific and Japan use public cloud services and outsource more than their global counterparts.

Chart: If Modi comes to power, will he be able to revive consumer spending?

Modi has run a gruelling campaign mainly on promises to create jobs and restore India to a path of high economic growth. But, this is a new challenge before him. Will he able to revive the consumption in India?

Sensex zooms 300 points on exit polls, 2 Gujarat cos gain big time

IT infra spending on pace to reach $1.9 billion in 2014: Gartner

The Indian IT infrastructure market, comprising of server, storage and networking equipment, will total $1.9 billion in 2014, a 4 percent increase from 2013, according to Gartner, Inc.

Did you know: 94% of DMK's candidates contesting this LS polls are crorepatis

Bad news for Modi? A rate increase by RBI cannot be ruled out

The BJP seems to be gearing itself up to form a government without much clarity on what it actually needs to do on the reforms front

Graph: Check out how Sensex rode the Modi wave in last 5 months

The following chart shows how the BSE Sensex has zoomed in the last five months

Foreigners are in love with Indian equities: They own one-quarter of the top 75 companies

Amid hopes of a stable and reform- oriented government after the general elections, foreign investors pumped in Rs 9,600 crore in Indian stocks in April, the eighth consecutive month of inflows. Here's what they are investing in.

This year, mobile subscriptions will be nearly equal to global population. India's share: 13%

According to a report from the UN's International Telecommunications Unit, the number of mobile number subscriptions will reach 7 billion by the end of 2014, that's similar to estimates of the global population. Of that number, more than half will come from the Asia Pacific region.

Chart: See where India stands on the global manufacturing stage