Microsoft will participate in Indian startup growth story: Nadella
Microsoft Corporation will participate in the development of accelerator programmes dedicated to support the Indian startup ecosystem, the software giant’s chief executive officer Satya Nadella said on Monday. Nadella, who was on a four-day personal visit to his home town Hyderabad to attend a family function, today visited T-Hub, an incubation facility developed by the Telangana government in public-private partnership to support technology-enabled startups. “ Microsoft is keen to work with T-Hub to develop accelerators and startups,” he told Telangana state IT and panchayat raj minister KT Rama Rao, who took him around the 70,000-sft ‘Catalyst’ incubation facility created on the International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT)-Hyderabad campus. Sharing the stage with Vishal Sikka, chief executive officer of Infosys, and Keerti Melkote, co-founder and chief technology officer of Hewlett Packard company Aruba Networks, Nadella addressed the budding entrepreneurs ...