1,000 Verizon employees to move to Infosys

Some IT experts think that large deals like this come with low margins and taking over large numbers of people can make it difficult for IT vendors.

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Taiwanese hacker drops plan to take down Mark Zuckerberg’s account

Cyber enthusiasts from India routinely expose loopholes in corporate websites and software, earning small financial rewards.

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After breach, Facebook faces a crisis of faith

The company said the flaw affected almost 50 million accounts, and Facebook logged 90 million people off their accounts as a safety measure.

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Latest Facebook breach piles on India worries

​​The social network had about 270 million users in India at end of July, according to Statista website.

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Government waives import duty on 35 capital goods to boost mobile phone manufacturing

The finance ministry exempted items such as printed circuit board (commonly known as motherboard) coating machine, PCB assembly loader, unloader from the customs duty.

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Free flow of data should not be confused with data security: IBM's Harriet Green

Harriet Green, chairman & CEO, IBM Asia Pacific, points out that India needs a much wider debate on data localization because it gains a lot from the free flow of data around the world.

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Why Facebook's new India head Ajit Mohan is a brave man

Facebook has been headless for an year in India after its MD Umang Bedi left in October last year.

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OnePlus to hike price of stock coming in 3 months

The rupee fell to ₹72.56 against the dollar on Thursday from ₹65.03 on March 30. New supply contracts are being signed at higher rates than earlier to reflect the currency movements.

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Facebook's worst security breach hammers user trust once again

If people lose confidence in Facebook’s handling of their personal information, they may spend less time or share less on the social network, limiting the company’s ability to make money from their activity.

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Facebook reveals security incident affecting 50 million users

Facebook said attackers stole Facebook access tokens through its "view as" feature, which they could then use to take over people's accounts.

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Bengaluru to host India NANO-2018 on December 5

The event will be a platform for a multi-disciplinary approach to Nanotechnology with the theme ‘Nano for a Better World’.

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GlobalLogic appoints Puneet Gupta as its Chief Technology Officer for India / APAC Region

Puneet brings in more than two decades of diverse digital and global experience, with a background in Computer Science and Electronics Engineering

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Global IoT cellular connections to hit 5-billion mark by 2025: Report

Smart manufacturing, utilities and mobility applications such as automotive and asset tracking will be the key growth drivers for IoT over the next 5-7 years.

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Xiaomi Mi Band 3 announced for India. Here's everyting about it

The new Mi Band 3 comes with a bigger display than its predecessor, the Band 2.

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A balanced verdict is IT sector’s take on Aadhaar directive

The judgement removes a big barrier to the Centre's flagship scheme's acceptability and “settles” the law, TV Mohandas Pai, a former Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Infosys said.

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HCL Tech receives five-year renewal deal from Anglo American

The company said it would continue to support Anglo American, a diversified mining company, through adoption of cloud.

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Facebook, Google and others agree to tackle fake news: European Union

Earlier this year, the Commission told the tech industry, including Facebook and Google, and the advertising industry to draft a code of practice or face regulatory action over what it said were their failure to do enough to remove misleading or illegal content.

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Quick Heal detects over 6.3 lakh threats on Android devices in Q2 2018: Report

Top ten Android malware of Q2 2018 include Android. Smsreg.DA, Android.Airpush.J, and Android.Guerrilla.M, which were propagated through third-party app stores.

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Dell EMC looks at artificial intelligence, blockchain to drive server growth

In fact, the top five Indian IT services companies, besides the multi-nationals, are seeing faster growth in digital technology-based services with share of revenue ranging between 26% and 28%.

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WhatsApp now looking to hire India legal head

“We can say that this position is equivalent to that of a legal head for WhatsApp in India,” a person familiar with the development told ET.

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WhatsApp says working with India's Reliance Jio to curb fake news menace

Jio this month gave its more than 25 million JioPhone customers, many of them first-time internet users, access to WhatsApp at a time when the messaging service is battling false and incendiary texts and videos circulating on its platform.

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Video streaming experience on smartphones very poor in India: OpenSignal

When it comes to overall mobile video experience, India joins Iran and the Philippines below the "Fair" threshold into "Poor" territory (0-40), said London-based wireless coverage mapping company OpenSignal.

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Unisys signs pact with Bengaluru airport operator to improve passenger experience

The Analytics Center of Excellence will support a business intelligence and advanced data analytics platform for BIAL

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Infosys deploys digital banking solution at Australian Military Bank

It added that deployment of Finacle has enabled AMB with significant operational benefits and cost efficiencies, along with enhanced security and scalability.

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3 US citizens sue TCS for alleged employment discrimination

The complaint alleged that TCS prefers to bring in employees on visas even when there are trained US citizens and further discriminates when it hires locally by preferring Indians and South Asians.

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Airtel announces massive network expansion plans for Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand

The deployment will create significant high speed data and voice capacity within the network to serve the explosive surge in mobile usage, driven by affordable smartphones and tariffs, he said.

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Infosys bags CAD 80.3 million deal from Public Services and Procurement Canada

The new platform will enable PSPC to purchase various goods and services through a single portal, configure specific requirements, and access data, reporting and analytics information in real-time to support more effective decision-making, the statement said

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Hotstar CEO Ajit Mohan named Facebook India head

Mohan's appointment ends Facebook's one-year search for an India head, a role which became vacant following former managing director Umang Bedi's departure in October last year.

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Mindtree appoints Pradip Menon as CFO

The company's Board of Directors approved Menon's appointment as CFO with effect from Monday, Mindtree said in a regulatory filing.

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L&T Technology Services bags USD 40 million deal

L&T Technology Services Monday said it has bagged a deal worth USD 40 million to provide digital content management services to a technology company's industrial products segment.

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Cognizant names Michael Patsalos-Fox as new chairman of the board

Patsalos-Fox was elected to the Cognizant board in 2012 and serves on the Finance, Management Development and Compensation, and Nominating, Governance and Public Affairs committees.

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Ramco Systems bags order from US firm for 'aviation suite'

The aviation suite 5.8 of Ramco was chosen for the solution breadth, flexibility and mobile-friendly capabilities, the company said in a BSE filing.

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Panasonic to foray into flagship smartphone segment in India

The flagship devices will hit the shelves next month as the festive season inches closer, industry sources told IANS on Monday.

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L&T Technology Services (LTTS) wins $40 million engineering content management deal in Europe

LTTS is a subsidiary of Larsen & Toubro is an engineering and R&D (ER&D) firm with 13,000 employees across 16 design centers and 42 innovation labs worldwide.

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Hewlett Packard Enterprise enables Infosys Finacle set a new record in transaction processing

According to a benchmarking study by KPMG, Finacle UBS achieved an online transaction processing record of 11,441 business TPS and direct channel benchmark of 33,463 average business TPS.

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Infosys fails to prove ex-CFO deleted data from laptop

Infosys declined to make any further comment beyond its regulatory filings made last week that claimed the verdict of the arbitrator was confidential.

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Dual branding: Chinese companies bet on smartphone sub-brands

Poco, RealMe, Innelo are the new sub-brands of established ones such as Xiaomi, Oppo, and new player iVoomi, respectively.

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Bengaluru to get free wifi in six months: Dy CM

The ambitious plan to provide wi-fi connectivity across Bengaluru was in the backburner for long.

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WhatsApp appoints grievance officer for India

The update mentions that users can seek help through the mobile app, send an email or write in to 'Komal Lahiri', who is based out of the US.

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Government develops game to counter cyber crimes against children: NCPCR

The 'cyber trivia' app would have a set of multiple choice questions and children would rewarded points based on their answers, the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights said.

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Grooming rural youth in Cloud must for inclusive innovation in India: AWS

"India is unique. You have this highly educated population of tech entrepreneurs and start-ups and then you go into villages which are like a different world altogether.

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Food, fashion and culture are bridging the gap between retirees and millennials on Instagram

Across the world, there are several senior people who have taken to Instagram to stay connected with their loved ones.

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Infosys to design new forms for filing GST returns

As decided by the GST Council, e-commerce firms will pay Tax Deduction at Source (TDS) and Tax Collected at Source (TCS) with effect from October 1.

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Google asks employees to delete China search engine memo: Report

A group of Google employees who were organising internal protests over the censored search system got access to the memo detailing information about the project.

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Twitter bug may have sent users' DMs to unknown developers

A bug in Twitter's platform for third-party app developers exposed some Direct Messages (DMs) from nearly 3 million users to outsiders, the micro-blogging platform has admitted.

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Infosys to offer cloud solutions on Google platform

"The solution allows enterprises to react to signals in real time and create intelligent, engaging experiences for their customers," asserted the statement.

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Onus of keeping social media safe may shift from users to Facebook & WhatsApp: Telecom Secy

MeitY is drafting a letter asking it to design a technology-led solution to the viral messages that in the past have led to lynchings and riots.

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TAFE launches tractor rental app

With the help of this application, in the last season, 16,000 farmers earned an additional income of about Rs 10,000 each.

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Infosys partners Google Cloud to develop 'Data Native Intelligent Enterprise'

As part of this partnership, Infosys has built artificial intelligence and machine learning-driven industry specific solutions on GCP that are foundational to digitising the data supply chain and Customer Genome.

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Google tweaks privacy policy for Indian payment app after Paytm's complain

The row has erupted amid heightened debate about user privacy and how technology firms treat data in India and abroad. India is developing a new data protection law which could force companies to change how they transfer or store customer data.

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