Oppo India Prez: Noida cluster set to support exports, domestic market

Chinese smartphone maker Oppo expects the Covid-19 supply chain disruption to end in a week or two. It is also planning to open a 5G lab in Hyderabad.

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Virus impact: Offline retailers running out of handsets as distributors hoard

Industry watchers say wholesalers are holding back stocks of popular phone models in anticipation of a price rise by the month-end as production in China slows; brands as yet unaware of complaints.

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Infosys sees a spot as insurance companies look to vet cyber infra of clients

While insurance companies are creating their own cyber security services arms, IT services providers are looking at winning deals that involve usage of technology to carry out due diligence and underwriting work. Technology companies have been signing large contracts with insurance provides.

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Realme band features revealed ahead of launch

According to teaser page, Realme band will feature a colour screen which will display notifications for calls, messages and alarms. The Realme band is listed to come with sleep tracking and real-time heart-rate monitoring as well as nine sports modes - biking, running, walking, hiking, climbing, yoga, fitness, spinning, and even cricket. The company says that the cricket mode is especially made for India.

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Cisco says India highest growing country in APJC region

New Delhi, Mar 1 () India was among the highest growing country in the Asia Pacific, Japan and China (APJC) region during the last fiscal year for global networking major Cisco, a senior company official said.

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Capgemini to hire up to 30,000 employees in India this year

The Indian workforce constitutes for over half of its global employees base. "India forms a very important part of our business and we will hire 25,000-30,000 people here this year on a gross basis," Capgemini country chief executive Ashwin Yardi said. At present, it is focusing efforts on re-skilling employees for the technologies of the future, he said.

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Paul Singer's Elliott seeks to replace Jack Dorsey as Twitter CEO: Sources

New York-based Elliott is one of the world's biggest activist investors with more than $40 billion in assets under mangement and has targeted companies ranging from eBay to AT&T to SoftBank in the last months for improvements. Its latest target is the microblogging and social network site and one of the hedge fund's requests is to replace four directors, the people said.

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