Localisation may not ensure data security: Mastercard chief Ajay Banga

Foreign companies have been seeking relaxation of the rule so that they can store data both locally and at their offshore offices.

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Alibaba cloud sees a bright lining in data localisation

Alibaba Cloud entered into a partnership with ONGO Framework, an IT and digital solutions company, to provide services to 100,000 MSMEs in India by December 2019.

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WhatsApp to appoint India head by year-end

While WhatsApp has appointed a grievance officer for India, the government has asked that the officer be stationed in India.

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Not seeking decryption, but location, identity of those sending provocative msgs: Government to WhatsApp

After meeting with WhatsApp Vice President Chris Daniels, IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said: "On the issue of traceability, I emphasised that when we talk of traceability, we don't talk of decrypting messages".

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Focussed on security, privacy to help users communicate in everyday life: WhatsApp

WhatsApp has been asked by India to put in place a mechanism to clamp down fake messages on its platform.

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Twitter India earnings fall 14% in 2017-18

In comparison, Google clocked a 30% increase in turnover to Rs 9,337.7 crore, while LinkedIn posted a 20% jump in turnover to Rs 547 crore.

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Mapletree bid highest for Chennai IT park

Mapletree has offered about Rs 2,450 cr for SP Infocity, jointly owned by the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and Shapoorji Pallonji Investment Advisors, said 3 people aware of the development.

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Cognizant records $28 million loss in India bribe talks with US DOJ, SEC

In its 2017 annual report, Cognizant said it had identified about $6 million in bribes paid from 2009 to 2016.

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Chinese delegation visits Infosys, Huawei R&D Centre in Bengaluru

As a part of the technical visit in Bengaluru, the delegation on Tuesday visited Infosys, Bangalore Helix Biotech Park and Huawei R&D center.

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Technology is a great leveller: Narayana Murthy

Murthy added that this brings "hope, confidence, enthusiasm and dignity" in the mind of every citizen, which is important if the society wants to make sustained progress.

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Mumbai leads data centre business, Bengaluru 2nd: Report

According to CBRE South Asia Pvt Ltd, Mumbai has led the data Centre business as it is one of the global cable landing locations in the country.

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Firms should train youth on new-age technologies: Narayana Murthy

Citing the example of Infosys, Murthy said the company's Mysore training centre has a capacity to train 14,000 people a day.

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Haptik chatbots enable Future Group to boost customer engagement on its digital wallet app Future Pay

Future Pay used Haptik’s platform to enable two important new product features on their Android and iOS apps: a Quiz bot and a Shopping List bot.

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93% Indian firms still in early stages of Cloud maturity: IDC

Compared to the Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) markets where more than 14% of organisations are in the latter stages of maturity, only 10% of the Indian organisations are in the advanced stages.

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From railways to Aadhaar, India’s key systems run on IBM-acquired Red Hat software

Red Hat is the backbone of the BSE, NSE, Aadhaar, GST, LIC, SBI Insurance and most core banking services across India

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Bengaluru R&D centre to pilot NetApp’s journey into data space

The transformation of NetApp began by focusing on where our customers were taking their businesses and how we could be more relevant to them by reshaping the portfolio in their direction.

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Fighting fake information is a societal challenge: Chris Daniels, WhatsApp

WhatsApp will provide the government an update on its efforts to address misinformation ahead of 2019 Lok Sabha polls.

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Want to keep WhatsApp the way it was built to be: Chris Daniels, Global head

Daniels said, “We recognise that relying on law enforcement isn’t enough — whenever you introduce new technology there needs to be broad education to explain how to stay safe.”

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Netflix India makes profit in its 1st year

While the company entered India in January 2016 as part of its global roll out, Netflix was registered as a limited liability partnership (LLP) in the country in April 2017 when it started commissioning content.

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IBM to take over 1,000 Indian staff as part of Red Hat buyout

Red Hat has a reputation for its open culture that has been built by its CEO Jim Whitehurst and imbibed at its offices in India.

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Micromax launches 2 Android Go smartphones in India

The devices will be sold offline at a price of Rs 5,899 (Micromax Bharat 5 Infinity Edition) and at Rs 4,249 (Micromax Bharat 4 Diwali Edition).

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'Donald Trump admin's policies on H1B creating uncertainties among small IT firms in US'

Founded in 2010, IT Serve Alliance has more than 1,000 members, a majority of whom are owned by Indian Americans, reflecting the dominance of the community in this sector.

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IAMAI forms committee to promote Augmented and Virtual Reality

The committee is chaired by Namrita Mahindro, Senior General Manager, - Digital Transformation, Mahindra Group and co-chaired by Satyajeet Singh, Head –Strategic Product Partnership, India & South Asia, Facebook.

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Facebook launches Digital Literacy Library in six languages

The ready-to-use lessons in the Library are drawn from the Youth and Media team at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.

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81% Indians feel their smartphones don't have all requisite features: Study

According to the Consumer Insights Study 2018 by gadgets research portal 91mobiles.com, 81 per cent Indians feel that their smartphones don't have all the requisite features.

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1 GB data cheaper in India than bottle of cold drink: Narendra Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on a visit to Japan on Monday praised the expanding network of telecommunications and internet in India.

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IT services companies hike freshers' pay after half a decade

At least two of the top five companies of the $167 billion sector said they have increased pay for freshers as they see rising demand for young talent that could be trained on digital skills amid growing orders in emerging areas from global customers.

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Indians spent over Rs 50k crore on Chinese phones in FY18

The four — Xiaomi, Oppo, Vivo and Honor — along with a few other Chinese brands like Lenovo-Motorola, One-Plus and Infinix, make up more than half of the total Indian smartphone market by sales.

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Data & cyber security may come under Trai, Telecom Commission

As per the draft bill, citizens and internet users will have the final say on how and for what purpose personal data can be used, and they will also have the right to withdraw consent.

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Flipkart Internet narrows losses to Rs 1,160.6 cr for FY18

The company had registered a total loss of Rs 1,640.2 crore in the previous fiscal, according to the documents filed with the Corporate Affairs Ministry.

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Novel tool to monitor fake news on Facebook, Twitter

NewsWhip, a social media engagement tracking firm, collects URLs on hundreds of thousands of sites every day.

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Cisco, Ericsson, Samsung, Nokia, Sterlite to invest Rs 4,000 crores in India: Manoj Sinha

"We were expecting an investment of Rs 2,000 crore but companies have committed an investment of over Rs 4,000 crore said the minister.

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Government backs instant approval for 5G R&D, field trials

The government is aggressively focusing on next-generation of technology, and has already created a high-level 5G Forum under the leadership of the US-based Standford University's Professor A Paulraj.

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Microsoft's Digital Crime Unit busy catching cyber thugs in India

The real-time data analytics and sharing of key inputs with relevant law enforcement agencies helped bust 10 companies

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‘Old’ IT skills still relevant in India

Technology services companies are still recruiting candidates with expertise in older software languages such as Cobol, Fortran and C++.

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With 5G, you can virtually transport a person, do remote surgery

India is taking baby steps towards new-age technology facilitated by 5G. While trials will begin over the next few months commercial on-ground rollout will happen only by 2020.

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Tata Communications to use Teleena buy for a place in IoT space

Tata Communications will use its acquisition of Teleena to drive its push in mobility-based internet of things (IoT) solutions.

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Apple’s India revenue up 12% to 13,098 crore in FY18

Net profit jumped to Rs 896.33 crore from Rs 373.38 crore, which the industry attributed to the high margin on the iPhone X and Mac computers.

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Huawei Mate 20 series to launch in India in November; company confirms 5G device by mid-2019 globally

Huawei Mate 20 Pro features a 6.39-inch OLED display and an under-display fingerprint sensor.

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Anti net-neutrality stance: Don't support blanket ban on paid prioritisation, says US FCC chairman Ajit Pai

Pai said that the matter needs to be seen on a case-by-case basis to review "both pro-competitive and anti-competitive" prioritisation arrangements.

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How Google protected Andy Rubin, the 'Father of Android' with $90 million exit package

What Google did not make public was that an employee had accused Rubin of sexual misconduct. Google investigated and concluded her claim was credible.

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Social media firms need to bring about transparency: Ajit Pai

Citing the micro blogging platform Twitter, Pai said when the company decides to delete an account or to not delete one, users must know the “rules behind that”.

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Government asks Google, Twitter, WhatsApp to check rumours, messages inciting unrest

Some social media firms have said they are taking necessary steps to stop misuse of their platforms for spread of fake news, and rumours and hate messages.

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India supports digitisation but won't compromise on data integrity: IT Minister Prasad

Speaking at the inaugural session of India Mobile Congress 2018, Prasad highlighted the exponential growth in mobile manufacturing in the country, backed by the rising base of smartphone users and internet penetration.

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Wipro increases annual fresher salary by Rs 30,000

“We are also introducing a coding test to improve the quality of hires. We are looking to roll out a broad-based national talent test to expand the reach of our hiring process," said Wipro president and chief human resources officer Saurabh Govil.

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Deleting Google search data gets easier

On a day when Apple CEO Tim Cook pitched for greater privacy of user data with a GDPR (Europe’s new data law) like framework, Google rolled out new tools that will give users more control over their search history.

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HCL Tech to hire nearly 30,000 people, applies for 640 H-1B visas

The company said it plans to hire more full stack engineers unlike in the past when it focused on specialisation in one development lifecycle.

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Smartphones emerge as bright spot for Indian manufacturing

Modi's vow to create tens of millions of new jobs has stuttered on many fronts, but domestic smartphone production has emerged as a bright spot for Asia's third-largest economy

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We are seeing better momentum for large deals: Abidali Neemuchwala, CEO, Wipro

Right now the demand environment looks quite good… both for Wipro and in general for technology services, says Wipro's CEO.

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India's data localisation push can give rise to new business opportunity

With RBI not budging on financial data localisation and the government finalising the data bill, a new business opportunity is set to explode

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