India centrepiece of our growth strategy: Oppo

“We have a clear India strategy, going forward, and will continue to add to our product offering in India to expand our ever-growing base,” Charles Wong, India president for Oppo, told ET.

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Wipro aims to make $150 million from intellectual property this FY

Wipro Promax, which facilitates trade promotion, is sold independently and is a key revenue generator among patented IPs.

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Facebook opens monetisation features for Indian content creators

Facebook also announced ‘Brand Collabs Manager’, a tool that will help brands find creators to collaborate with for branded content opportunities on Facebook.

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Hackers tried to steal customer information: Dell

Dell has also hired a digital forensics firm to conduct an independent investigation and engaged law enforcement.

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Tech Mahindra launches new business unit for video services in 5G

With the establishment of the new "Video Integration and Engineering" (VIE) platform, Tech Mahindra said it would aim to improve its strategic position with several video distribution companies in the US.

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How Amazon's Cloud arm AWS is democratising Machine Learning for all

GE Healthcare is training computer vision models with Amazon SageMaker that are then deployed in its MRI and X-Ray devices.

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IIT-Delhi, IBM enters into a multi-year research collaboration on AI

​​The collaboration will enable the duo to develop AI solutions for organisations across all sector.

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TikTok, TikTok! A Chinese bomb in Indian app space

With risqué humour and raunchy content, video apps pose a big risk for preteens & adolescents.

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Google, Whatsapp told to clear air on data storage

Separate letters sent by NPCI seeking info about plans to store local payments data exclusively in India.

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Vivo plans to invest over Rs 4,000 crore in India

Vivo’s existing plant over 50 acres in Greater Noida has completely localised production, with even components such as printed circuit boards being manufactured locally. The company has invested Rs 300 crore in this facility.

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That virus alert on your computer? Scammers in India may be behind it

Law enforcement authorities, working with Microsoft, have now traced many of these boiler rooms to New Delhi, India’s capital and a hub of the global call-center industry.

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US lawsuit win: TCS says will continue to invest in people irrespective of their national origin

A California jury unanimously sided with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), saying the Indian company did not discriminate against non-south Asian workers

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India among fastest growing Cloud markets for AWS: CEO Andy Jassy

After delivering his marathon three-hour keynote address at the AWS "ReInvent 2018" conference attended by over 50,000 people here, Jassy told reporters that he is very bullish on India.

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Xiaomi nears Rs 23k cr in revenue within 4 years of operations

Majority of Xiaomi’s revenue comes from smartphone business, but Jain wants other categories to also start contributing strongly.

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TCS is not anti-American, jury gives technology major clean chit in racism case

This was the first of several such cases against Indian IT. HCL, Infosys and Wipro also face similar claims.

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Mapletree Investment buys Chennai IT park for Rs 2,400 crore

Institutional investors, including private equity, sovereign wealth and pension funds, have been increasingly showing interest in picking up income-producing commercial real estate assets in India.

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It is jury’s call now as TCS class action trial in US ends

If it goes against TCS, it might spur settlements in other cases,” an industry executive said, declining to be identified. TCS had not responded to a request seeking comment at the time of going to press.

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Tata Consultancy Services acquires BridgePoint Group

BridgePoint Group caters to the financial services industry and specialises in retirement services through the purchase of select company assets.

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Xiaomi, Samsung, Realme dominated Diwali smartphone sales: Counterpoint

"Flipkart stood out due to the most number of exclusives while Amazon benefited from the launch of OnePlus 6T," Karn Chauhan, Research Analyst, Counterpoint Research, said in a statement.

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New Delhi-based company launches world's cheapest LCD TV at Rs 3,999

The TV can be purchased through the company's website or through its mobile app

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Former Snapdeal product head Anand Chandrasekaran quits Facebook

His departure ends a two-year stint which began in September 2016, where he had joined to work on Facebook’s popular Messenger product.

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How AI can increase the reach of India's public welfare programmes and make them efficient

While India gears up for a brighter future powered by its ‘AI for All’ mission, policymakers must put processes in place to fully harness the power of this disruptive technology.

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TechGig Geek Goddess 2018: Snehlata Mishra wins 95-day long hackathon

• Snehlata Mishra - The winner of TechGig Geek Goddess 2018 beat more than 68,791 women technologists to win the coveted 'TechGig Geek Goddess 2018' title at...

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A quarter of Cognizant employees is in digital

The Teaneck, New Jersey-headquartered company shared this information on its first ‘analyst day’ held earlier this month to provide greater clarity to investors.

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Google workers demand end to censored Chinese search project

About 1,400 of Google's tens of thousands of workers urged the company in August to improve oversight of ethically questionable ventures, including Dragonfly.

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For $9.2m, NTT buys majority pie in Atom Tech

The company said this partnership is “a strong endorsement of the rapid strides made by the two countries in the digital sector and will help Atom to leverage NTT Data’s presence across the globe.”

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Xiaomi in talks with two more partners to set up plants in India

Local sourcing of components will help the handset maker reduce prices of its products in India, besides reducing the go-to-market time.

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Chinese smartphone brand Comio to exit India

Comio had entered India in September 2017 and had plans to invest over Rs 500 crore in the country by 2019, including manufacturing, R&D and marketing.

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India will play a key role in achieving 200 mn unit shipment target: Huawei

The company, which has shipped close to 100 million units in the first half of the year, Tuesday also unveiled its premium smartphone 'Mate 20 Pro' in India for Rs 69,990.

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NTT DATA to pick majority stake in India's Atom Technologies for $9.24 million

NTT's foray in the payments market in India is said to be a key strategic decision to expand in this business across Asia.

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Tech Mahindra bags Rs 270 cr IT modernisation project from Coal India

"We will bring the depth of our digital experience into this engagement and deliver connected experience to Coal India," Tech Mahindra President, India Business and Corporate Affairs Sujit Baksi said.

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Fibre backbone to improve service quality: Trai chief

With increasing instances of call drops and slow internet connectivity, the sector watchdog is pushing for increasing fibre connectivity.

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WhatsApp early employee & chief business officer Neeraj Arora is leaving

Neeraj Arora was being touted to take over as WhatsApp CEO earlier this year however the role of global head of the company was given to Chris Daniels.

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Techies, save your jobs like this: A win-win formula at Infosys

It is upskilling employees which will help it cut attrition and acquire future-ready workforce.

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Lenovo’s FY18 India phone sales at Rs 6,881 crore

Lenovo’s profit last fiscal was Rs 95 crore as compared with Rs 105 crore in FY17, reflecting the profitability of the PC business.

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IT firms expect margin rise despite stronger rupee

They are also looking at the rupee to stabilise at around Rs 70 against the dollar by December-end, which they will average out to Rs 71.5 for the quarter.

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Azim Premji to be conferred highest French civilian award

The award comes in recognition of his outstanding contribution to developing the information technology industry in India, his economic outreach in France, and his laudable contribution to society

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How will we outsmart artificial intelligence liars?

New breed of artificial intelligence can now deceive large numbers of people over the internet.

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IoT keeps the story alive for IT services companies

Technology services companies are likely to see IoT services market grow two-and-a-half times to $270 billion in five years (by 2023) from $106 billion now.

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Niki.ai breaks even on all transactions: CEO ​​Sachin Jaiswal

Sachin Jaiswal, CEO, Niki.ai, said that the company had seen a surge in revenue this year following the launch of the voice command feature.

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View: Indian laws need to be much more precise about taxing local storage of payment data

India has a stated intent to revisit many of its tax treaties to widen scope of PE to address new digital biz.

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Yamuna Expressway Industrial Authority allots land to Vivo for Rs 3,500cr unit

Three other companies, including MT&T Ltd and Raj Corporation, both five acre each, and Kesarwani Conduit Private Limited (1.25 acre) were also allotted land parcels.

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DISYS expands India presence with Noida office

The firm, having set up its first Center of Excellence in US staffing in Chennai, helps in staffing many key businesses across IT and other verticals.

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Chinese apps become a hunting ground for paedophiles

The videos — and there are at least 560 more of them — were posted on the account, 'Gaon ki Bachchiya' (Village Girls), which has nearly 98,000 followers.

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Delhi govt may float EoI for free wifi in 2 weeks

The AAP government in its outcome budget in March this year had set the target to launch the project by March 31, 2019 and allocated Rs 100 crore for it.

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With tech centre in tow, Bunchball's ready to play

The Bunchball global team has been supported by the Global Technology Solutions delivery centre in Chennai in the past few months.

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GlobalLogic is scouting for buys to triple revenue to $2 billion by 2022

The San Jose-based IT outsourcing firm is on track to clock $650 million in revenue for the current fiscal and is growing at over 24% organically.

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Tech Mahindra dialling 5G to boost its long-term numbers

Analysts projected that Tech Mahindra’s communication vertical should see more than 8% growth on the back of 5G, and overall transformation in the communications sector.

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Indian IT companies have had to transform every part of their process for faster growth

The most visible change in Indian information technology is that it is becoming progressively less Indian.

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Digital lending in India set to grow to $100 billion by 2023: Report by Omidyar Network and BCG

The study says, India, with a largely level playing field, no dominant incumbents, and a range of entrants and business models can be successful in tapping the MSME lending market.

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