New Apple India chief’s sales plan disconnects discounts

For consumers, this will mean Apple products will cease to be discounted as the number of distributors is pared and the company takes a hard line on maintaining prices.

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Security is bedrock of our cloud offering: Google

Google's cloud region in India - which comprises three data centres - went live in Mumbai in November last year and offers services like Big Data, storage and networking.

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Facebook news use declining, WhatsApp growing: study

The Reuters Institute report, which covers 37 countries in five continents, found that the use of social media for news fell by six percentage points in the US compared to last year.

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Cognizant gives president Rajeev Mehta a big pay push

Mehta will also be awarded $9 million in restricted stock units that will vest in 12 successive equal quarterly instalments beginning August 1 and ending May 1 2021.

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London top hub for Indian tech investment

The finding comes as the UK government announced plans to launch a new start-up visa route, which is expected to attract more such investors to Britain.

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Infosys partners with Rhode Island School of Design to train 1,000 designers in 2 yrs

In November last year, Infosys had announced a multi-year partnership with the State of Rhode Island to establish a design and innovation hub.

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IBM bets big on artificial intelligence for server business

The next-generation power systems servers incorporate a newly designed POWER9 processor. This has been built specifically for compute-intensive AI workloads, said IBM's Satya Sharma.

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