Shyam Swaraj

People like Warren Buffett are extremely rare births. The journey for the fifth richest person in the world, from being worth just about $114.75 in 1942 to owning Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRK.A) and being worth a whopping $118 billion today,...

When Kofi Annan said "Knowledge is power. Information is liberating", we assumed he was referring to Wikipedia. And for all that matters, we wouldn't be wrong to link the two. Just as much a visionary, Jimmy Donal Wales, the co-founder and chairman...

On this day, July 29, 1904, the enterprising legend was born who began working at his uncle Jamsetji Tata's firm as an unpaid intern only to become the founder of several industries under the prestigious Tata Group. Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata (JRD...

Being recognized by the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader is not easy. And neither was it building the 'new currency' as admitted by Peter Thiel, the co-founder of PayPal. Managing funds right from $700 million as president of Clarium to...

For the woman who has built the task force and established teams of two billion-dollar companies, Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOGL) and Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ:FB), being chosen as the 22nd Most Powerful Woman by Forbes, should certainly not have been a...

We've all experienced how difficult it is to break a habit, especially one that has become ingrained in our lives. Who'd have imagined that two young adults in their twenties would shake up our routines and make our lives...

“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.” These words of Albert Einstein depict the successful voyage of the entrepreneur who dropped out of Stanford and built...

Credited to build India's first ever indigenous PC, at the same time when US was building its first PC, Shiv Nadar, the Founder and former Chairman of HCL Technologies Ltd (NSE:HCLTECH) and Shiv Nadar Foundation, has pioneered the computer...

David Karp never imagined building "the easiest way to share yourself" platform that supports small bits of every type of media, albeit as an experimental challenge, would win him laurels today. In 2010, this technology keen boy was among the...

A vagabond in his childhood, a hacker in his teens and always living on the edge, Julian Assange, co-founder of WikiLeaks, is the controversial man who people love and governments hate. This Australian publisher, journalist and editor-in-chief of the...