Israels Pears foundation to hold bination hackathon
The Dollar Business Bureau Pears Foundation of Israel is hosting a bination hackathon focusing on affordable healthcare across four cities – Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Mumbai and Tel Aviv (Israel). The 36-hour hackathon in Hyderabad will be conducted by India's largest incubator for startups T-Hub in association with its Israel counterpart. The bination hackathon is the first outcome of T-Hub’s international partnership with StarTau, Israel. This hackathon will build bridges between the innovation ecosystems of Israel and India by providing a platform for entrepreneurs and industry experts from both the countries to work together to pioneer affordable healthcare solutions, T-Hub said in a statement. Winners of the hackathon will receive a minimum cash prize of Rs.1 lakh for each sponsored challenge and a fully paid ...
'Private players role vital to achieve competitiveness in defence sector'
The Dollar Business Bureau India needs to have a long-term strategy to ensure the growth of the defence industry involving private players as production partners, said former president and scientist APJ Abdul Kalam. Kalam, who has spent decades with the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and Indian Spare Research Organisation (ISRO), said that regulations and control procedures should be implemented in managing private industries for manufacturing of defence systems. “Encouraging high-technology tie-ups and joint ventures between Indian and other global defence industries will achieve not only competitiveness but also envisage the product for export. India cannot afford to lose any more time in pondering the issue,” he said. Kalam also insisted for the setting up of a national-level ...
High-tech markets to come under intense monitoring
The Dollar Business Bureau To ensure strict vigil on unfair practices in businesses involving internet and other networking platforms, the Competition Commission of India (CCI) will intensely analyse multi-dimensional high-technology markets. The fair trade watchdog said that it will now focus on intense analysis of multi-sided high-technology markets involving network industry and more complex markets that need greater understanding of economic theories, anti-trust analysis and theories of harm. “Recent development about net-neutrality and other high-tech issues is an area where the Commission will be stressing,” CCI member SL Bunker said on Saturday. Speaking at an international conference on competition law organised by IT and BPO industry body ASSOCHAM, Bunker said that his organisation will now shift its focus away from basic ...
