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Manish Garg in The Diaspora

Aug 3, 2015

Why Uber will win the Uber Vs Ola war in India

“Uber pays us really well and is easy to deal with. Even though we get more pickup orders through Ola, I prefer to drive for Uber”, said Shantilal as he drove me in his Ola marked cab during my recent trip to Pune. I was however using Uber. This…

Manish Garg in The Diaspora

Oct 25, 2015

How can we use ‘Proof of work’ for Bitcoins more efficiently

In absence of a central governing body, individual users have to validate transactions in a distributed ledger system. However in order to validate a transaction, user’s machine has to execute a mathematically challenging…

Manish Garg in The Diaspora

Aug 5, 2015

Connected car as your credit card $$

As you pull through the Starbucks drive-through, wouldn’t it be cool if you can pay by a simple…

Manish Garg in The Diaspora

Dec 23, 2015

Dozen reasons to love 2015

While a lot of media spends energy on raising alarms, no one tells us much about what is good in the world. Here are some positive news from 2015.

1. Africa joins the race to eradicate polio

Manish Garg in The Diaspora

Aug 16, 2015

3 reasons why India’s unicorns are under threat

Unicorns are billion dollar startups and WSJ has a really good infograpic on them.

Not surprisingly most companies are in United States, but it is also refreshing to see many names from other countries. There are a couple…

Manish Garg in The Diaspora

Aug 2, 2015

MDM and MAM in mobile

App wrapping

With the rise in BYOD (Bring Your Own Device), there are several software components that corporate IT have to put in place to ensure that data on mobile devices is secured and the devices can be remotely managed and even controlled in man instances…