the story highlighted, include - the success of CodeChef, the recent launch and line of thinking underlining ‘Go for Gold, Directi’s commitment towards ‘Go for Gold’ and the cause of programming , India’s performance at ACM ICPC, and Bhavin’s view on Indian programming talent.
Entrepreneur magazine has carried a two page profile on Directi and the Turakhia brothers." With a products-based company our processes don't change and the product is 100 percent renewable", says Divyank, President and Co-Founder, Directi.
Hindustan Times - Taking e-education one step forward
This is the first story that talks about Directi’s strategic partnerships and projects Directi as a company providing high tech facilities for the benefit of students, teachers, alumni members of Indian colleges, at no cost at all.
Hindustan Times - More city youth splurging on jets
Divyank Turakhia, a 28-year-old entrepreneur, can hardly wait for next weekend. Instead of the usual pub-hop-ping, he will pilot his latest acquisition, a six-seator Turbo Stationair aircraft.
The story has positioned CodeChef as an online programming haven for aspiring programmers in India and ‘a warm up to ACM ICPC’. Directi has been positioned as a company that promotes programming,takes initiatives to encourage budding programmers & is responsible for numerous online coding contests.
Education World - CodeChef Campus winners China bound
The article has described CodeChef as India’s first non-commercial multi-platform online coding competition. It discusses the various competitions that CodeChef holds for aspiring programmers, with special mention of SnackDown.
The story’s focus is on the inevitable exhaustion of IP addresses which are based on the IPv4 platform. IPv6 is slated to be the next-generation internet protocol that will address the growing need of Web addresses and will prove to be a boon for ISPs, telecom companies, Web hosting companies.
The Sunday Guardian - Learn, grow, share knowledge
In this article Bhavin talks about Directi growth and what’s behind our success. We are one of the few companies in India that create mass market web products.
India Today Aspire (Feb 2010 issue) has featured Bhavin and Divyank Turakhia in the ‘Young Entrepreneurs’ section in an article titled ‘Starting Early’. The story is about how the Turakhia brothers founded Directi, while still in their teens and how the company has grown over the years.
This is a well placed article, with the team describing their experiences as they have grown from amateur programmers to confident participants of this national level coding competition. The story carries a photograph of the team with Bhavin.