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Regina Mihindukulasuriya

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Regina is a reporter for BW Businessworld. In her previous assignments, she has worked with Independent television Network as a news anchor and reporter in Sri Lanka

Latest Articles By Regina Mihindukulasuriya

After Fintech, ‘Insurtech’ Startups Look To Be Next Big Thing

Gartner says insurance firms should investigate ‘Insurtechs’ to complement their own digital strategies and most insurers will partner with or acquire insurance technology startups to secure their competitive positions in the next two years.

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Exclusive: SME Scale IBEE Hosting Gets One Million Dollars

The company which focuses more on serving startup level businesses in India has been active since 2006, and operates in the SME category (small and medium enterprises), revenue is modest too. So the million dollars from their parent company and investor will help quite a bit.

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Happy Days For Microsoft Earnings With New-Age Cloud

Cloud product helps set a record breaking share price while analyst expectations for earnings are surpassed. Microsoft Azure sales increase by a massive 116%.

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Pitney Bowes Accelerator Power Women Entrepreneurship

“Pitney Bowes’ is one of the few globally recognized acceleration programs giving thrust to Indian startups to build a scalable product…an obvious accelerator for us to aspire to be a part of.”

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Lessons From Gartner Symposium: CIOs Must Let Go Dated Thinking, Embrace Digital

Gartner analysts say large tech companies plan to make the physical world an extension of a digital world. Gartner analysts said decades old organizational strategies will inhibit digital transformation. The future organizational structure is cross-functional and bimodal. Bimodal is the practice of managing two separate but coherent styles of work: one focused on predictability; the other on exploration.

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MSME Steel Company Goes Into Real Estate

Micro and small enterprises are the backbone of the economy according to economists. This is the story of an MSME steel-first company spreading its wings into other areas. Their newest venture is in building apartment complexes, they are doing it solo because the real estate environment isn’t too conducive to joint projects at the moment.

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Quotes To Inspire Budding Entrepreneurs From Y Combinator

President of Y Combinator, Sam Altman shares his insight into the world of startups with people who would like to be a part of this exciting, fast paced ecosystem. Y Combinator (YC) is an American seed accelerator and has been called one of the most influential and powerful agencies in the world creating some of the biggest innovative startups the world has ever seen like Dropbox, Airbnb and Reddit.

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Google And Facebook Join To Build Fastest Trans Pacific Internet Cable

The two tech giants are coming together to construct an undersea trans-Pacific ocean fiber optic cable for faster data connection the world has yet seen.

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Police Used This American Startup To Spy on People

An American social activist group, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) released documents saying that prominent social networks Facebook, Twitter and Instagram has been sources of data on hundreds of millions of its collective user base to a Chicago-based startup named Geofeedia. However, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter has effectively blocked data access following the revelation.

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Salesforce Won’t Be Buying Twitter After All

In an interview to Financial Times, CEO of Salesforce Marc Benioff confirmed that despite agreements and promises, that the cloud computing company will not be acquiring Twitter.

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