December-2013 issue
Cover Story
Author: Durgesh Prakash & Sagaya Christuraj
The 2012 saw one of the most hyped IPOs in the U.S. i.e., Facebook's IPO. While the media went gaga, reporting and speculating every aspect related to Facebook's big day, the ultimate result was rather disappointing as the company's...
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Startup of the Year: Finanical Technology
Pankaj Kundwani
The knock-on effect from the Great Recession has been compelling consumers, investors, and lenders around the world to reduce...
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Startup of the Year: Cloud Computing
Pankaj Kundwani
In today's highly heterogeneous IT environments in which the enterprises thrive, Machine- and user-generated data is rapidly...
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Startup of the Year: Cloud Security
Vignesh Anantharaj
"If CipherCloud had existed ten years before, the cloud would have been comprehensively adopted today," says Marc Andreessen,...
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In My Opinion
S. 'Soma' Somasundaram
-President & CEO, Dover Energy
Dover Energy provides highly-engineered solutions for the safe and efficient extraction and handling of critical fluids...
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CIO Insights
Robert Worrall
-CIO, NVIDIA Corporation
NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ: NVDA) is a provider of visual computing technologies and high performance processors like the GPU....
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Vinod Bidarkoppa
-Director (IT) & CIO, Tesco HSC
Tesco HSC is the group operating and technology centre for Tesco (LSE: TSCO.L),
a $115 billion turnover company -...
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Michael L Capone
-Corporate Vice President of Product Development & CIO, ADP
Headquartered in Roseland, NJ, ADP® (NASDAQ: ADP) is a provider of human capital management solutions for human resource,...
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View Point
Jeff Theiler
-SVP & Chief Information Security Officer, Hancock Bank
Hancock Holding Company (NASDAQ: HBHC) is the parent company of Hancock Bank in Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida and Whitney...
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Gary Eppinger
-VP - Enterprise, Supervalu
Eden Prairie, Minnesota based SuperValu, Inc. [NYSE: SVU] is the third-largest food retailing company in the United States....
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Badri Rajasekar
-VP of Engineering, TokBox
TokBox is part of Telefonica Digital and headquartered in San Francisco. It provides a free API that allows anyone to add group...
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Ashok Chalaka
-Founder, President & CEO, OnChip Devices
OnChip Devices, headquartered in Santa Clara, CA deals in Integrated Passive Devices. It has its own silicon fabrication...
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I.P. Park
-EVP & CTO, HARMAN International
Harman International Industries, Incorporated (NYSE:HAR) is engaged in the developing, manufacturing and marketing of audio...
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Somesh Singh
-Vice President, Product Management & Engineering, NetIQ
Houston, TX based NetIQ Corporation (NASDAQ: NTIQ) provides IT system management,
security management, and performance...
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CEO Spotlight
Sheeroy Desai
-Co-Founder & CEO, Gild Inc
Based in San Francisco and with offices in Salt Lake City and Milan, Gild Inc. is the provider of a platform that helps...
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Ashish Pandya
-CEO , Infosil
Search, social and mobility have shaped all aspects of life in the last decade. Apple's iPhone changed the mobile landscape...
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Himanshu Bhatnagar
-CEO, Excellicon
During early 80's, most semiconductor companies developed and maintained their own CAD software for chip design. In late 80's,...
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VC talk
Parag Shah
-Group Head of Life Sciences and Senior Managing Director, Hercules Growth Capital
Hercules Technology Growth Capital, Inc. (NASDAQ:HTGC) is a specialty finance company providing venture debt and equity to...
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Venture Chakra
SI Team
Los Angeles, CA based Freshdesk, a provider of SaaSbased customer support platform to enterprises has secured $6.99 million in...
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SI Team
Aurigo Software Technologies Inc. has received $6.3 million as funds from four investors including venture capital firm and...
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In Focus
SI Team
India has sought Congressional help in addressing its concerns over what it calls certain 'discriminatory provisions' of the...
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SI Team
India has crossed the 200 million threshold for internet users in October and is expected to reach 243 million by June 2014,...
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Entrepreneur's Corner
Naveen Bisht
-Board Member and Chair, Programs, TiE Silicon Valley
This month's article brings you lessons from Raj Parekh, an extraordinary entrepreneur, prolific angel investor, intrapreneur...
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Editorial
Christo Jacob
siliconindia is 16 years old -- yet as we grow, we still aim to retain the nimble, adaptive culture of a startup. We have...
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