Billionaire tech pioneer Nandan Nilekani takes on Amazon, Walmart in India - The Indian Express

Now 66, Nandan Nilekani has one more ambitious goal. The high-profile mogul is helping Prime Minister Narendra Modi build an open technology network that seeks to level the playing field for small merchants in the country’s fragmented but fast-growing $1 tril…

He co-founded software powerhouse Infosys Ltd., became a billionaire and went on to spearhead a colossal government program to create biometric identification for Indias almost 1.4 billion people.Now… [+6339 chars]

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