India’s growing app economy; In conversation with NTT Data CTO Kris Fitzgerald

Kris charts his journey from working for sales at IBM to working on various tech platforms and starting up in the tech space.

India’s growing app economy; In conversation with NTT Data CTO Kris Fitzgerald

Wednesday September 18, 2019,

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For Kris Fitzgerald, who started his career in the 1970s, technology was something new and not embedded in everyday life. Now, the CTO of Tokyo-based global IT services giant NTT Data, Kris charts his journey from IBM to starting up in the tech space


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Rise of India’s app economy

India's App Economy

Image Credit: Aditya Ranade

India is poised to become the world’s largest developer population by 2024. Android developer jobs dominate, with Bengaluru and Delhi emerging as top contributors to the app economy.


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From Superwoman to super host: YouTube star Lilly Singh

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Lilly Singh

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The Budget 2019 proposed that 80 livelihood business incubators and 20 technology business incubators will be set up in 2019-20 under the ASPIRE scheme.


How Liz Jacob set up her own children’s clothing startup

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FreshWorks makes its 18th acquisition with CanvasFlip

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Manish Jha (L) and Vipul Mishra (R)

While CanvasFlip's feedback management tool, Visual Inspector will be available on Chrome's Webstore, the prototyping and collaboration solutions of the company shall be discontinued, post the acquisition.


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