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When online developer community @StackOverflow brought on its new CEO, @pchandrasekar, on board in Nov last year he had no plans of raising fresh funds for the company before 2021. As coronavirus brought on dramatic changes across the globe, #StackOverflow had to review its plan.
#StackOverflow’s public question and answer platform, also has job listings for developers looking for new projects. Developers can use it to re-skill themselves, find out what programming languages are in demand and network with other developers to up their game.
“India is a big user base for us and it’s untapped in the context of our Team’s product. Almost entirely India’s association today is with the largest number of users,” Prashant Chandrasekar told Business Insider in an interview.
A young chartered accountant from London had a plum job with Chase Manhattan when his charismatic uncle HT Parekh who was starting a new mortgage company which provides housing loans to middle class Indians.
The Parekhs had taken what was considered impossible and turned the business of housing loans into a profitable business, but also opened up new vistas for the real estate sector.
Ever since Housing Development Finance Corporation (HDFC) has turned into an institution which spun off a bank in 1994, one that is today the country’s biggest private bank.
After looking at how consumer behaviour was changing and that India was ripe for innovation, she set up Indo-US Venture Partners in 2006 with yet another serial entrepreneur Vinod Dham and former head of Intel India Kumar Shiralgi.
What makes it more ambitious is his promise to manufacture 400 million doses a month once the vaccine being developed at the University of Oxford, in partnership with British drugmaker Astrazeneca, comes through.
.@adarpoonawalla's Serum Institute has the mandate to make the vaccine for Indian #COVID19 patients and a proven track record in producing high volumes and making doses affordable.
As healthcare takes the spotlight in the post-#pandemic world, Poonawalla will be a showstopper at Business Insider’s Global Trends Festival scheduled between October 19 and 23 this year.
Forget making back money, it looks like Brahmastra is taking down PVR & Inox investors with itself. With early reviews pouring cold water on #Brahmastra’s prospects, India’s largest theater chains PVR & Inox have cumulatively lost over ₹800 crore in market capitalization today.
In Indian mythology, #Brahmastra is known as a weapon of unstoppable destruction, which can only be stopped by its counterattack astra (weapon). Ironically, the movie could end up being a victim of the weapon it is named after.
The late #QueenElizabethII has visited India three times – in 1961, 1983 and 1997, each time accompanied by her husband and Duke of Edinburgh, the late Prince Philip. Her first visit came nearly 15 years after India's independence.
#KingCharlesIII takes over as the British monarch after the death of #QueenElizabethII, and that will lead to a demonetisation in the UK. New coins and currency notes will be minted and printed after the designs are approved.
The death of #QueenElizabethII has given the British monarchy its first King after over 70 years. The old coins and notes will be slowly phased out of circulation.
The old coins and notes featuring #QueenElizabeth II will continue to be legal tender for the time being.
The #iPhone14 is the base variant and comes with a few upgrades over its predecessor, including the A15 Bionic chipset, upgraded cameras and longer battery life.
Apple has announced the much-awaited #IPhone14 series, the company’s latest flagship offering. In addition to the iPhones, the company also announced Apple Watch SE, #AppleWatchSeries8, Apple Watch Ultra and the AirPods Pro gen 2.
Coming to the iPhone 14 series, the Cupertino giant has introduced four models – the base #iPhone14, iPhone 14 Plus, #iPhone14Pro and the top-end iPhone 14 Pro Max.
Apple has made significant changes to the iPhone 14 series.
Astronomers focused the #JamesWebbSpaceTelescope on Tarantula Nebula, one of the brightest and most active star-forming regions in our galactic backyard, and found thousands of young stars they hadn't seen before, images released by NASA on Tuesday show.
The Tarantula Nebula, is an immense cloud of gas and dust about 160,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the #MilkyWay. The nebula has birthed some massive stars, a few that are more than 150 times the mass of our sun.