Digitalisation is now forcing Nasscom to reinvent itself

As digitalisation and outsourcing outcry hit the Indian IT business, the powerful body representing it is changing its stripes

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“INNOVERSARY” – Innovecture's Annual Day Celebrations!

Pune, 30th August 2019 - Innovecture recently celebrated its INNOVERSARY – its first annual day function in Pune. It was an evening filled with fun & frolic ...

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Nokia leads in updating its smartphones, Samsung 2nd

96 per cent of Nokia smartphones are already running on Android Pie or have had an Android Pie update.

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NDRF, Wipro to work together in design for additive manufacturing of aerospace systems

According to an MoU signed on Friday, NDRF and Wipro 3D would also offer competency building and advisory programmes relating to additive manufacturing.

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Cognizant, HCL Tech may feel the pain of US opioid lawsuits

IT services firms face hurdles due to possible client bankruptcies or cut in spending to pay settlements.

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Army of women earning $4 a day could be behind your next iPhone

Succeeding in India has become all the more urgent for some mobile phone companies since U.S. President Donald Trump launched a trade war last year.

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Local electronic makers may get international calls

Global brands may want to consider firms like Dixon Tech, Lava & Jaina for 3rd party contracts.

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Apple has a Rs 1,000 crore retail plan in store

The company plans to set up online selling platform, and open three of its iconic stores in India in 2-3 years.

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OnePlus cautious as government tweaks FDI norms, Oppo and Vivo gung ho about growth opportunities

The government on Wednesday eased foreign direct investment (FDI) rules around Single Brand Retail Trade.

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NASSCOM signs MoU with SkillUp Online

SkillUp Online will first launch foundation-level learning modules on AI and big data.

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Wipro expands its partnership with Google Cloud

Wipro said it would boost innovation for enterprises in industry verticals such as consumer goods, BFSI, semiconductor, and healthcare, through a ‘business-first’ strategy.

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Swedish IT firm LiteBreeze relocates to SmartCity Kochi

LiteBreeze, a leading Laravel development company in India got its new office space of 7,500 square feet in SmartCity Kochi, which is an IT special economic zone covering 246 acres.

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Tech Mahindra and Adjoint collaborate on Blockchain solution for BFSI sector

With this solution customers could save up to$4 million for every one billion of financial risk management and banking relationships, it said.

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Low-cost, low-power network developed for 5G connectivity

Millimetre-wave (mmWave), a network that offers multi-gigahertz of unlicensed bandwidth, more than 200 times that allocated to today's WiFi and cellular networks can be used to address the looming issue.

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India is critical for ServiceNow’s $4b target, says CEO

Service Now, which has a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) business model, has over 2,000 engineers in Hyderabad and is adding over 1,200 people in the next one year, he said.

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BJD MP Pinaki Misra questions TikTok on exclusive contracts

The Biju Janata Dak MP sent a detailed questionnaire to Chinese technology company ByteDance regarding the impact of an exclusive agreement with creators

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Apple says working on online, physical store plans; lauds India govt

Apple will now be able to meet the local sourcing norms easily since it has started assembling of iPhones in India.

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Large BPM firms ride digital data analytics wave

DATA WISE Genpact, EXL Services and WNS register healthy growth as clients increase investments in data analytics to improve customer mining

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PEs exit Micromax via buyback, valuation crashes 93% in 4 years

PE players are selling 6.9% in the company for Rs 93.65 crore to the promoters, whose holding will increase to more than 85%, Micromax said in its latest regulatory filings.

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Bigger bite: Apple to sell directly in India through online first

The US firm has also decided to set up its iconic brick-and-mortar Apple Store in Mumbai over the next 12-18 months.

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Kingsoft Office aims to grow India userbase to 40 mn by year-end

Globally, Kingsoft Office has about 310 million monthly active users including individuals, enterprises, and government agencies.

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Samsung Galaxy M30s with 6,000mAh battery to cost between Rs 15K-20K

Samsung will also introduce two more variants of Galaxy M smartphones ahead of the festive season.

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Beware of the Google Calendar spam and here's how to stop them

Google Calendar allows anyone to invite you and automatically adds that to your calendar.

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Oppo unfazed by slowdown; aiming for high double-digit market share

Oppo grew 41% year-on-year in the April-June quarter of this year, as per IDC’s latest data.

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Money game: The growing biz of PUBG and its star players

The fight-for-survival game has acquired the status of a cultural phenomenon the world over.

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Firms facing 504 hacking threats per minute: McAfee

The businesses are witnessing 504 new cyber security threats every minute and ransomware has grown 118 per cent as hackers adopt new tactics and code innovations to steal data globally.

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Automation Anywhere has $100 million to grow

The robotic process automation major said it would set up more research and development centres in India.

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Cognizant CEO Brian Humphries looks outside to ramp up digital talent

Firm has hired execs from CenturyLink, Mphasis and Wipro to improve its positioning.

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TikTok claims ‘intermediary’ status

After ShareChat’s complaint, TikTok says it does not control user content but has exclusivity rights.

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Vivo to invest Rs 7,500 crore to expand local manufacturing in India

The new manufacturing plants for the company backed by China’s BBK Electronics will come up in Greater Noida.

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Cisco to acquire Customer Experience Platform CloudCherry

Upon completion of the transaction, the CloudCherry team will join Cisco’s Contact Center Solutions business, led by Vasili Triant, vice president and general manager, Cisco said in a press note.

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Samsung bounces back, smartphone sales up: Gartner

Samsung sold over 75 million smartphones globally in the second quarter (Q2) 2019 and grew its share by 1.1 percentage points (year over year) after witnessing a decline in six consecutive quarters, Gartner said on Tuesday.

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Microsoft to train 5000 govt employees on AI, cloud

The program, called 'Digital Governance Tech Tour', will comprise of physical and virtual workshops, said the company in a press release.

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Price storm brewing with affordable cloud tech in works

Jio’s partnership with Microsoft is likely to trigger a new wave of price disruption with affordable cloud-based solutions.

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US court rules out fresh trial in TCS discrimination case

TCS won the case in Nov last year and jury had rejected claims of preference for Indians.

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Government notices an issue in TikTok’s ShareChat notices

To ask TikTok how its intermediary status consistent with claims on owning content

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Microland banks on digital tech for next phase of growth

Microland said its new suite of services include advanced automation, artificial intelligence (AI), industrial internet of things (IIoT), cloud, and cybersecurity.

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Enterprise information security spending to reach over $2 billion by 2020: Gartner

In 2019, security services will represent 51.5% of the total enterprise information security spending in the country.

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India is important, that's why bringing hardware devices here: Google

Tech giant Google is betting big on Indian market and bringing in hardware products from its global portfolio to the country to cash in on the growing demand for smart devices.

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OnePlus to invest Rs 1,000 Cr in Hyderabad R&D facility in 3 years

Hyderabad will be our biggest R&D centre in 3 years.

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India driving more revenue per user for social media firms

As user growth on various social media platforms in the key global markets slows down, India is helping social media players clock more revenue per user in the Asia-Pacific region, thus driving the overall social advertising spend, a new report said on Monday.

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TikTok partners with IIMC to promote online safety

These workshops will be implemented by Youth Ki Awaaz, an online community for social issues.

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Tech Mahindra launches GAiA 2.0 to expedite adoption of AI/ML by enterprises

GAiA is an industrialized version of the open-source Acumos platform.

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Atos and C-DAC to work together on quantum computing, AI and exascale computing

C-DAC, which is a part of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, GoI, is already working with Atos on the National Supercomputing Mission.

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Education campuses take on cyber bullying

While educational institutions may have cracked down on on-campus ragging, bullying appears to have moved online.

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Faulty Apple laptops revive fears of battery fire

Consumers are worried older, faulty models may see a repeat of battery fires, despite Apple's voluntary recall earlier this year.

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Digital rights body IFF files IIT-B Prof submission saying traceability on WhatsApp vulnerable to falsification

The submissions are part of the ongoing hearing in the Madras High Court regarding a PIL which originally sought to link social media accounts of users to their Aadhaar number

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Samsung eyes premium growth this festive season with Note 10 series; aims to pip OnePlus

Samsung is looking to grow its business by around 40% in value terms during the festive.

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New social media experiment: Tracking India’s growing addiction to ASMR content

According to Google Trends, the interest in the term has been high since the last one year, peaking to 100 in October, and the curiosity for such content is the highest in Mizoram, Nagaland and Meghalaya.

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Small contracts are a big deal for IT

Analysts say clients engage more vendors to execute digital projects.

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