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Low income workers are expected to benefit in this skills training program launched by Google. (IANS photo) India-West Staff Reporter MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA (IANS) - Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai has announced a new $100 million Google Career Certificates Fund to

Neel Kashkari is a former investment banker and candidate for CA governor. (photo minneapolisfed/ Steve Niedorf) India-West News Desk MINNEAPOLIS, MN - Neel Kashkari the Indian American president of the Minneapolis Federal Reserve said on Feb.16 that he thinks U.S. inflation will

Addverb has its corporate office in TX and plans on opening a center in San Diego, CA. (IANS photo) India-West Staff Reporter DALLAS, TX - India homegrown robotics company Addverb Technologies has announced expansion plans for the US market, appointing Mark Messina

(L)Indian American Ajit Pai worked for the Donald Trump administration as the Federal Communications Commission chairman. (R)Vinay Ravuri is the founder and ceo of the Santa Clara based EdgeQ Inc. (photo Wikimedia/EdgeQ) India-West Staff Reporter SANTA CLARA, CA - The former Federal

DALLAS, TX (IANS) - App-based health and fitness platform Cult.fit has said it has acquired the India business of international fitness chain Gold's Gym for an undisclosed sum. Gold's Gym International, Inc. is an American chain of gyms originally started by

Barely six months ago, Ford India had shut down India manufacturing but with new incentives is looking to reopen. (IANS photo) India-West News Desk DETROIT, MI – India announced on Feb.11 that it had selected 20 companies including Tata Motors, Suzuki Motor

Ruchir Sharma was born in India and is the son of a naval officer. (photo wikipedia) India-West Staff Reporter NEW YORK, NY – Indian American Ruchir Sharma, will join Rockefeller Capital Management as Managing Director and Chairman, the firm’s president and chief

NEW DELHI (IANS) - Beverages major Coca-Cola India's brand -- Thums Up -- has become the company's first $1 billion brand. As per the Coca-Cola company's global 'Fourth Quarter and Full-Year 2021' results, the cola brand has put the "Thunder" back

NEW DELHI (IANS) – India on Feb.8 questioned electric car company Tesla's business practices, of seeking tax breaks to use the Indian market to sell its products, but not wanting to set up manufacturing facilities in the country which can

India-West Staff Reporter Indian Canadian Maxine Henderson is the owner of Bollygood. Bollygood, is a sparkling Indian inspired beverage. Similar to a lemonade or limeade, but with a flavorful, low in sugar twist. Think “Nimbu Pani” - the drink that has been

India-West Staff Reporter SACRAMENTO, CA - An Alabama-based specialty underwriter of property, casualty and life insurance has been bought for $41 million by a Vivek Ranadive holding company. Indian American Ranadive is the owner and chairman of the NBA team, Sacramento Kings.

NEW DELHI (IANS) - The Indian government has turned down a demand of tech billionaire Elon Musk's electric vehicle (EV) company Tesla for tax breaks to import electric cars, saying rules already allow bringing in partially-built vehicles and assembling them

NEW YORK, NY (IANS) -The pivot to Meta isn't helping Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook. Markets directed their wrath on missing fundamentals - a sharper-than-expected decline in profits and a gloomy outlook - in the first earnings report of the newly christened

Reliance Industries Ltd. Chairman Mukesh Ambani. (IANS file photo) NEW DELHI – Reliance Industries Ltd. Chairman and Managing Director Mukesh Ambani has predicted that India will become one of the top three economies in the world and Reliance will become one

Indian American hoteliers and moteliers will be able to take advantage of the new H-2B visa rule. Above: A group of young second- and third-generation Indian American and Asian-American hoteliers set up #HospitalityStrong, a grassroots organization designed to leverage resources

Ketan Patel, Managing Director of HP India market, says "The world will remain in the hybrid mode, irrespective of the new Omicron strain.” (photo via IANS) By NISHANT ARORA NEW DELHI (IANS) – As countries reopen after navigating a long spell of

Amrapali Gan. (OnlyFans photo via PRNewswire) India-West Staff Reporter OnlyFans, a subscription social media platform facilitating authentic connections between creators and their fans, Dec. 21 announced the appointment of Amrapali "Ami" Gan as Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately. Gan will assume the day-to-day

The spousal work authorization backlog has prevented tens of thousands of immigrant women – many of them from India – from working, causing needless financial pain for their families, said the letter signed by Rep. Deborah Ross (above) and 22

“I look forward to helping lead Kriya through its continued evolution as a fully integrated gene therapy company,” said Neera Ravindran. (LinkedIn photo) India-West Staff Reporter Kriya Therapeutics, Inc., a Redwood City, Calif.-based company pioneering novel technologies and therapeutics in gene therapy,

Raunak Ghosh and Aishwarya Kulkarni’s submission won the Amgen Strategy Competition. (University of South Florida photo) India-West Staff Reporter Two Indian American students at the University of South Florida Muma College of Business took the top prize at the Amgen Strategy Competition

One of the Microsoft buildings in Redmond, Washington. (commons.wikimedia.org/Coolcaesar) India-West Staff Reporter The Department of Justice Dec. 7 announced it has reached a settlement agreement with Microsoft Corporation resolving allegations that the company discriminated against non-U.S. citizens based on their citizenship status

Better.com CEO Vishal Garg. (photo via IANS/YouTube) Indian American CEO of Better.com Vishal Garg, who recently was massively trolled for laying off 900 employees over a Zoom meeting call, is "taking time off effective immediately,” according to media reports. According to Motherboard,

A file photo taken on July 22, 2014 shows solar panels at Apple Data Center in Maiden, North Carolina. The U.S. International Development Finance Corporation’s acting CEO Dev Jagadesan said that the agency "is thrilled to be in a position

Vishal Garg, CEO of Better.com, a digital mortgage lender. (photo via IANS/YouTube) IANS NEW DELHI — Better.com CEO Vishal Garg, who was massively trolled for laying off 900 employees over a Zoom meeting call last week, has finally issued an apology to

Former Zappos CEO Kedar Deshpande will join Groupon as CEO on Dec. 10. (zappos.com photo) India-West Staff Reporter Groupon, Inc. on Dec. 1 announced its Board of Directors has appointed Indian American Kedar Deshpande as its next Chief Executive Officer, effective Dec.

Ajay Banga: “I look forward to helping them scale and deliver impact as a member of the General Atlantic team, itself a true partner to high-growth businesses.” (mastercard.com photo) India-West Staff Reporter General Atlantic, a leading global growth equity firm, announced Dec.

Venture capitalist M.R. Rangaswami (left), founder of Indiaspora, seen with Dr. VGP, president of the World Federation of Tamil Youth, USA. (photo provided) India-West Staff Reporter Indian American venture capitalist M.R. Rangaswami has been appointed Tamil Nadu’s ‘Investment Ambassador’ Nov. 26. The San

Mythili Sankaran is one of two Indian Americans named Forbes “Culture 50 Champions.” (neythri.org photo) India-West Staff Reporter Forbes magazine recently announced its Culture 50 Champions, with Indian Americans Mythili Sankaran and Serrena Iyer among the honorees. The list honors Black and Brown

According to a LinkedIn profile, Indian American executive Puneet Dikshit worked for McKinsey & Company, one of the largest global consulting firms. (representational image) By ARUL LOUIS NEW YORK (IANS) – An Indian American partner in a global consulting firm has been

Author, TV host, producer and culinary expert Padma Lakshmi. (PRNewswire photo) India-West Staff Reporter Indian American author, TV host, producer and culinary expert Padma Lakshmi has joined DAH!, a maker of premium, slow-cultured yogurts, as a board adviser and brand partner, the

C.S. Venkatakrishnan, head of global markets for the bank, will take over as chief executive. Barclays said succession planning has been in place for some time, and the Indian American executive had been identified as the preferred candidate more than

Young Indian American entrepreneurs Shubham Issar and Amanat Anand are the inventors of SoaPen, which makes hand washing for kids fun. (YouTube screenshot) By REENA RATHORE/India-West Staff Reporter Deal or no deal? Indian American entrepreneur Nirav Tolia, who guest stars on Season

Sanjay Patel, president of Chekhub. (Chekhub photo) India-West Staff Reporter Chekhub, a Raleigh, North Carolina-based startup headed by its president, Indian American Sanjay Patel, has acquired a Florida-based provider of a computerized maintenance management system in a deal to bolster the company’s

Revaithi Advaithi of Flex was also honored with a “Responsible CEO of the Year” Award by 3BL. (Flex.com photo) India-West Staff Reporter 3BL Media Oct. 25 announced the recipients of the 2021 Responsible CEO of the Year Awards, with Indian American executives

Shubham Issar and Amanat Anand, inventors of SoaPen, making hand washing for kids fun. (jamesdysonfoundation.co.uk photo) India-West Staff Reporter On an upcoming episode of ABC’s “Shark Tank,” a pair of Indian American entrepreneurs will be pitching their business, SoaPen, to the investors. SoaPen

Shayen Patel founded Alley-Oop Kids to provide athletic equipment and positive sports experiences to underserved youth. (barronprize.org photo) India-West Staff Reporter The Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes announced its 2021 winners recently with four Indian American students among the group. Named alongside

File photo of Payal Kadakia attending Bumble Bizz Los Angeles Launch Dinner At Nobu Malibu at Nobu Malibu on Nov. 15, 2017 in Malibu, California. (Charley Gallay/Getty Images for Bumble) India-West Staff Reporter Mindbody, a leading wellness experience technology platform based in

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman (right) meets Indian American Mastercard executive chairman Ajay Banga (2nd from left) and CEO Michael Miebach in New York on Oct. 16. (ANI photo) NEW YORK – Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman's meetings with U.S. businesses and institutions

Sonali Batra, director of Digital Strategy and Brand Engagement at Walmart, Inc., is one of the awardees of OCA’s Corporate Achievement Awards. (Twitter photo/@SonaliBatra77) India-West Staff Reporter WASHINGTON, D.C. —OCA-Asian Pacific American Advocates will honor T-Mobile and seven outstanding individuals, including two

File photo of the CEO of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, during Amazon's annual Smbhav event in New Delhi on Jan. 15, 2020. (Sajjad Hussain/AFP via Getty Images) NEW DELHI – Industry leaders Oct. 13 slammed Amazon for allegedly manipulating search results to

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman arrives at New York on Oct. 11. (ANI Photo) BOSTON, Mass. – Indian Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman Oct. 12 addressed a roundtable meeting with institutional investors active across a wide spectrum of sectors including software, consulting, and

Interglobe Aviations co-founder Rakesh Gangwal made a massive leap from 359 to 253 this year, adding another $2 billion to his fortune. He is seen here at the right in a file photo with Bruce Ashby (center), president and CEO

Raghunandan G., founder of Zolve. (zolve.com photo) India-West Staff Reporter Zolve, a neobanking startup based in India, has linked up with a U.S.-based Community Federal Savings Bank to provide credit cards to Indians going to the U.S. for higher studies or employment. LiveMint

Looking ahead, the World Bank's Update said that "successful implementation of agriculture and labor reforms would boost medium-term growth.” Above: File photo of Indian women planting saplings at an agriculture research field in Bhubaneswar, Odisha. (ANI photo) By ARUL LOUIS UNITED NATIONS

File photo of the chairman of India's Reliance Industries, Mukesh Ambani (left), looking at rows of produce during a visit to a Reliance Fresh supermarket in Hyderabad, on Nov. 2, 2006. (Noah Seelam/AFP via Getty Images) NEW DELHI — The 7-Eleven

Sharmi Albrechtsen, CEO and founder of Smartgurlz, made the “Female Founders 100” list in the category of Build A Better Product. (Twitter photo/@sharmiindenmark) By GIOVANNI ALBANESE Jr./India-West Staff Reporter Several Indian American women were honored by Inc. magazine in its latest “Female

Truepill co-founder Sid Viswanathan was a regional winner in the Northern California region for the Ernst & Young U.S. Entrepreneur of the Year Award. (ey.com/Truepill photo) By GIOVANNI ALBANESE Jr./India-West Staff Reporter Ernst & Young in its 35th year of the EY

Moody's said it expects that the economic environment will allow for a gradual reduction of the general government fiscal deficit over the next few years. (photo via IANS) NEW DELHI – Global ratings agency Moody's Investors Service Oct. 5 changed India's

Indian American entrepreneur Jay Chaudhry, founder and CEO of cloud security company Zscaler, is the tenth richest Indian on the Hurun India Rich List for 2021. (Facebook/Zscaler photo) NEW DELHI – India has achieved the milestone of having over 1,000 individuals

Addressing the USISPF Summit virtually, Union Minister of Commerce Piyush Goyal said, "India and the U.S. can be two countries which should be looking at a balance mutual trade of a trillion dollars in the next 10 years." (ANI file