Users will need to be notified as Indian names reveal info: Experts

Caste has been categorised as sensitive personal data under the draft law. This means users need to be given explicit notice while companies collect their data.

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Access healthcare acquires Noida-based pacific BPO

The firm now caters to 250,000 physicians, serves over 80 specialties, and processes over $50 billion in accounts receivables annually.

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India heads of IT giants may face criminal charges over fake news

Directors and managers of social media companies may face 5-yr jail term and criminal proceedings.

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After Mini IPO Success, Sagoon shifts focus to hiring new talent

Sagoon is creating a New Social World from South Asia for the global internet users by offering them to Connect – Share – Earn.

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Xiaomi India migrating its local data to India cloud infrastructure

Prior to this, all Indian user data used was stored in AWS servers across Singapore and the United States.

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'Enterprise information security spends to hit $1.9 bn in 2019'

It is on pace to reach USD 1.7 billion in 2018, an increase of 12.5 per cent over 2017, according to the latest forecast from Gartner.

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IT Ministry warns against deadly 'momo challenge'

The advisory asks people to watch out for unusual signs and symptoms in children including social withdrawal, low mood, sudden outbursts of anger and loss of interest in routine activities.

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Wipro joins BiTA to drive blockchain adoption

The group provides a platform to develop and embrace common frameworks and standards using which industry participants can build innovative blockchain applications.

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Android phones to have 85% global market share in 2018: IDC

IDC expects smartphone shipments to decline 0.7 per cent in 2018 to 1.455 billion units, down from 1.465 billion in 2017.

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Ravi Shankar Prasad meets Sundar Pichai in Mountain View; talks about digital transformation

During his three day visit to San Francisco and the Bay Area, Prasad held meetings with a large number of CEOs and tech leaders from leading IT and Electronics firms based in the region.

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Micromax launches affordable smartphone 'YU ACE'

The smartphone will be available on Flipkart in an open sale starting September 6, the company said in a statement.

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Atlassian opens office in Bengaluru; begins to hire senior executives

The company said it plans to grow the office into an R&D and customer support centre and is ramping up hiring across engineering, product management, and design.

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Hackers now executing low-profile attacks to steal money: Trend Micro

Crypto-jacking -- where a hacker steals cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin from digital wallets -- attempts are making the biggest impact so far this year: Report

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'LG Candy' budget smartphone in India

The device will be available, starting September 1, in blue, silver and gold colours.

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JioPhone 2 flash sale today: Price, features and everything you should know

Bookings of ​​​​JioPhone 2 will be available on Jio.com from 12pm today in a flash sale.

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Cognizant expands operations in Texas

The Teaneck, New Jersey-headquartered company said it invested more than $8 million on its current expansion in Irving and qualified fora$2 million grant from the Texas Enterprise Fund.

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Bharti Airtel to offer free Netflix for limited time

Netflix services are likely to be bundled for three months into high-value home broadband packs priced at Rs 999, Rs 1,399, Rs 1,999 and Rs 2,199 per month.

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AMD says India has become its biggest PC chip market

AMD is targeting the commercial PC market with its Ryzen Pro chipsets where customers can buy commercial PCs from vendors such as HP, Dell and Lenovo.

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TCS to open up AI platform Ignio to third-party players

The plan for Ignio, launched commercially three years ago, looks a lot like General Electric’s strategy around its internet-of-things platform Predix.

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Mandate for localisation should not stifle innovation: Rishad Premji

Rishad Premji -- who is also Wipro's chief strategy officer -- said Nasscom has provided its inputs and also suggested that clarity be brought in on classification of critical data.

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WhatsApp to train users on dangers of fake news

"Our goal is to help keep people safe by creating greater awareness about fake news and empowering users to help limit its spread," Ben Supple, Public Policy Manager at WhatsApp

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Prakash Javadekar announces launch of third 'Smart Hackathon'

In the first two editions, the HRD ministry invited problem statements from ministries and state governments and the students were free to chose from them.

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Selling smart phones prone to crucial data leakage: Stellar

Nowdays, people have crucial personal and bank data due to phone banking and use various Apps and so it is very essential to erase the data permanently.

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Dozens at Facebook unite to challenge its 'intolerant' liberal culture

The aim of the initiative, according to Amerige’s memo, is to create a space for ideological diversity within the company.

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Regulators should understand economic value of seamless data flow: Google's Caesar Sengupta

When a user logs into the Google Station app, they will get to see an ad. That is how we are monetising, said Sengupta.

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Wipro bags multi-year contract from Denmark’s Falck

As part of the contract, Wipro would help transform Falck’s finance operations through its enterprise operations transformation model, said the company in a statement.

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Internet giants remain on watchlist, German regulator warns

The German authority has been tackling the importance of big internet platforms, Mundt said as he presented the regulator’s 2017 report.

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When we build for India, we build for the world: Google

Google’s Navlekha project will provide a handy online publishing tool for local language newspapers and content companies - 90% of which do not have a website.

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Google collects more data from users via android, says study

A major part of Google’s data collection occurs while a user is not directly engaged with any of its products.

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Top-end specs come in mid-level phones, too

Top smartphone players such as Xiaomi, Oppo, OnePlus, Vivo and now even Samsung are providing their so-called flagship, or top-end features at the mid-segment as competition intensifies.

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Google's Navlekha to enhance online traffic for Indian publishers

The official website of Navlekha has been structured in a way which can be easily interpreted by any one. One can seek help from experts to set up their publication website.

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'Realme 2' budget smartphone with notched display in India

Available on Flipkart, "Realme 2" is the first device to offer a notched full screen in the Rs 10,000 segment, the company said in a statement.

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Huawei topples Apple to become second largest smartphone vendor globally in Q2: Gartner

According to the Gartner report, Huawei secured second position by selling 49846.5 thousand units; while Apple moved into the third spot by selling 44715.1 thousand units.

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Free internet, cheaper android, editable PDF: Here is Google's 3-way plan to target every Indian

Google will launch a new feature in Google Go that will let people listen the webpages. It will support 28 languages including Hindi, Bengali, Malayalam, Marathi and Tamil.

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Google Tez is now Google Pay, check out its all new features

A re-branded version of its payments app, Google Pay will host a new line of features such as pre-approved loans.

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NVIDIA joins hands with NITI Aayog for hackathon

NVIDIA would provide participants with GPU and deep learning technologies, as well as remote access to NVIDIA DGX systems, purpose-built deep learning supercomputers, said the company in a statement.

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Lenovo to grow data centre business

With an investment of $1.2 billion in artificial intelligence R&D, the Chinese hardware and devices major is also looking at expanding its Chennai facility.

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Early push for 5G spectrum sale to elicit weak response: Care

Earlier this month, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) had suggested a Rs 492 crore per unit minimum rate for 5G spectrum in the 3300-3600 MHz bands that are to debut in the next sale.

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Patanjali postpones Kimbho chat app launch after missing deadline

Users who downloaded the app reported several issues, including problems in setting up profile pictures and complained about poor user interface (UI).

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Supreme Court notice to Centre, WhatsApp against payments service

WhatsApp is a foreign company with no office or servers in India and to run payments service here it is obligated to have its office and payments in India, said the plea.

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Airtel offers 3-month Netflix gift subscription to select postpaid and home broadband users

Post-three months, these users will be able to pay for their Netflix subscription seamlessly, using their Airtel postpaid or home broadband bills.

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Internet giants need to re-invest profits in India to generate jobs: Ravi Shankar Prasad

The govt asked IT giants to re-invest revenues and profits in India for generating digital infrastructure. India provides one of the biggest foot-print for popular social-media and digital platforms, IT minister said. He said that India believes in internet access for all and it cannot be the monopoly of a few.

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Did Infosys CFO exit over financial strategy differences?

Infosys’ lower operating margin guidance of 22-24 per cent announced in April spooked the markets so much that its share price tanked 8 per cent on the NYSE that day.

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No degree of separation as tech shops for talent

At Zoho...there is no glass ceiling, no limit beyond which a Zoho University graduate cannot reach and we have been of the opinion that paper credentials are useless.

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WhatsApp says messages on Google Drive not encrypted

However, an expert pointed out that WhatsApp is not forcing the users and as a user, you have the choice of not taking a backup your data in Drive.

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Mobile phone market’s most epic battle is coming soon

Xiaomi, red hot online, is ramping up its brick-and-mortar presence through Mi preferred partner outlets. Samsung, strong in brick-and-mortar stores, is focusing online, with more customer incentives.

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Why Mountain View closer to India than Menlo Park

Google has managed relations better than Facebook because it invested more in people locally, was less 'confrontational'.

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Binge-watchers don’t need data dieting any more

Remember the days when your smartphone was on a perpetual data diet, and you shut apps or refused to download more just to save your plan from finishing before the due date? Cut to now when you've binge-watched an entire series in full HD and still have hundreds of GB to roll over to the next month.

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Why it is difficult to monetise an online business opportunity in India

Having access to Internet doesn’t mean it is used in the same ways, or that they could be similarly monetised.

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Transacting in China is a joy, with the all-pervasive QR code and anywhere delivery

Mobile internet has become the cornerstone of China’s digital ecosystem, which has been growing at a breakneck speed over the past few years, and in pretty unique ways.

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