Eric Schmidt leaves Google board, ending an era

Schmidt will not seek re-election to the board when his term expires in June, but will continue to advise on technical matters, according to Alphabet.

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Price correction of iPhone models in India delivered better sales: Tim Cook

Talking to analysts after announcing Apple’s second quarter earnings, Cook said the price “adjustment” in India has led to “preliminary some better results there.”

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TikTok is back in play on Google, Apple app stores

The order follows several safety measures that the company said it would take to filter inappropriate or obscene content.

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L&T buys about 20% stake in Mindtree from VG Siddhartha

Through Tuesday’s block deals, L&T bought more than 32.7 million shares, or almost 20% of the stake held by Siddhartha and his Cafe Coffee Day affiliate firms, at Rs 980 per share.

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Mark Zuckerberg to explain how Facebook gets 'privacy focused'

Zuckerberg and his lieutenant, Sheryl Sandberg, have apologised repeatedly over the past year for Facebook's ever-expanding list of mishaps over privacy, data misuse and security problems.

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IBS Software set to transform cargo movement of Korean Air

Ashok Rajan, head of cargo & logistics solutions, IBS Software, said, ``iCargo has indeed elevated itself to being the undisputed market leader and the right IT platform to provide airlines with a competitive edge to lead in a digital world.

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TikTok app back on Google and Apple app stores

The court said, it is "also aware of the fact that the millions of users are denied their rights to have access to the said platform which also promises several good things."

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Tech Mahindra, UiPath launch AI based service desk solution

This ready-to-use cognitive operations solutions will help to accelerate the automation journey of an enterprise.

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Tata Consultancy Services faces new law suit over ‘trade secret theft’

In second such case against Indian tech firm, US company charges it with stealing secrets to build an insurance platform in US

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Wipro Consumer Care and Lighting acquires Philippines’ Splash Corporation

The maker of Santoor soap and Yardley deodorants said the acquisition will also help complete its Southeast Asian footprint.

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L&T open offer has impacted growth, not strategy: Mindtree

The Bengaluru-headquartered IT services firm crossed $1 billion in revenue in the just concluded fiscal year.

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Microsoft testing android alerts on Windows 10 PCs

Launched in 2018, "Your Phone" is an app for Windows 10 that allowed users to see recent photos taken on a Android phone directly.

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Government plans criteria for social media purchases

The increasing social media requirement is likely to be met through the national public procurement portal, Government e-Marketplace (GeM).

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Cognizant faces new suit on 'India bribery'

The suit, filed last month, claims that Cognizant executives had misled shareholders about audits conducted into its anti-corruption practices.

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Parts makers’ plants to come on stream post polls: Xiaomi

Xiaomi India MD Manu Jain says the announcement of the new factories got delayed because of the current election season.

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Xiaomi's Manu Jain learning offline game from Samsung

Xiaomi has now set a target of opening 10,000 retail stores in the country and aims to have 50 per cent of its smartphone sales in India from offline channel.

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Nasscom will Push for New-age Skills Adoption: Nasscom chairman

Nasscom last year started the FutureSkills platform, opening up opportunities for the member companies to get their employees trained in emerging technology skills.

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Facebook boosts fact checking by 25% to curb misinformation

The newest languages are Urdu and Punjabi. Before that it was Tamil and Gujarati. So Facebook now has 10 languages in which fact-checking happens in India.

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Vivo’s market share doubles in January-March quater

Chinese company’s share rises to 12% from 6% a year ago; Xiaomi, Samsung growth slows.

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India-domiciled cos filed over 4,600 patents in US between 2015-2018: Nasscom

AI led the emerging technologies patent race both in terms of number of patents (330 patents) as well as growth over the period 2015-18.

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India smartphone shipment grows 4 pc to 31 mn in March quarter: Counterpoint

The market share of Chinese brands in the Indian smartphone market reached a record 66 per cent during the first quarter of 2019.

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JioPhone leads feature phone market in India

Samsung stood second in the feature phone category with a share of 15 per cent while domestic handset maker LAVA grabbed the third spot with a market share of 13 per cent.

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HCL Technologies sets up cyber security centre in Texas

HCL has also unveiled a university-to-industry collaboration under which the IT firm will conduct on-campus hackathons.

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Xiaomi slips but retains top spot in Indian market

Xiaomi's newly-launched Redmi Note 7 series (Note 7 and Note 7 Pro) crossed the one million mark within the first quarter of its launch.

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View: Why spending big does not guarantee 100% cyber protection

Cybersecurity is an area where we have seen tremendous progress in technology hubs outside Silicon Valley.

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Industry 4.0 is using IoT and AI to expand its digital presence

Companies are putting these technologies to internal use first before making them commercially available.

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Unprofitable WhatsApp may hit Facebook's profitable apps: Mark Zuckerberg

Facebook CEO insists company won't store data in countries with weak rule of law.

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The game is on: Online gaming companies on a talent hunt

Industry players offering Rs 5-6 lakh to freshers & are going up to Rs 1 crore for experienced workers.

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IT Min writes to WhatsApp over report of child abuse videos being shared on platform

The ministry has written to WhatsApp, which counts India as one of its biggest markets, asserting that clear steps have to be taken to prevent such misuse on the platform.

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Internet users in India to rise by 40%, smartphones to double by 2023: McKinsey

As per McKinsey, India is one of the largest and fastest-growing markets for digital consumers, with 560 million internet subscribers in 2018, second only to China.

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Twitter adds way to report voter-tricking tweets

An option to report Twitter messages as being misleading about voting was being added to the one-to-many messaging service's app in India and Europe.

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Xiaomi expects offline retail to generate 50% handset sale by 2019-end

The company has opened 1,000 small-format Mi Stores across 300 cities and 19 states and aims to take the count to 5,000 by the end of this year.

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Tech companies will need to scale up to face data explosion: Dell EVP

Cities expected to churn out 200x more data setting off disruption, says Amit Midha.

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Gaana is now making over 100 million dance to its tunes

The 100-million mark is a very significant milestone, considering the user base in the overall Indian music streaming market.

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We remain committed to continuously enhancing safety features for users: TikTok

The Madras HC has lifted its earlier ban on the Chinese short-video app with the condition that the content hosted using it should be free from obscene videos of children and women.

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Persistent Systems appoints Sandeep Kalra as president – Technology Services

Anand Deshpande, Managing Director, Persistent Systems, said, “I am thrilled to welcome Sandeep to Persistent Systems.

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Wireless broadband subscriber base touches 532 million in February: ICRA

ICRA noted that 100 per cent of Reliance Jio's subscribers are broadband subscribers, while the same ratio for Vodafone-Idea stood at 27 per cent and for Bharti at 32 per cent.

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Madras High Court lifts ban on TikTok

The Chinese parent company had appealed to the apex court against the high court's order.

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Xiaomi aims 10,000 retail stores in India by 2019

Xiaomi India said it generated employment for over 2,000 people with the opening of 1,000 Mi Stores, which are spread across 19 states in the country.

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Indian IT companies raise elite US sales force

In a move to accelerate its localisation efforts, Infosys and Wipro have hired 10,000 and 6,000 people respectively in the US over the last three years.

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Financial service companies are now betting big on data

Data analytics has become the key determinant in matters pertaining to core BFSI operations.

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Whatsapp still being used for child abuse videos

Probe finds app remains breeding ground for such videos; company says it’s working with tech platforms, authorities.

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'Positive’ response from users, industry so far: TikTok parent

Helena Lersch, director of global public policy at ByteDance, said also the government was “supportive” of the company in the Supreme Court

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Huawei, Infosys sign partnership pact for cloud computing business

"Huawei Cloud and Infosys today signed a memorandum on strategic cooperation to help enterprise customers transition quickly to the digital cloud," a joint statement by the companies said.

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TCS, Infosys increase hiring by 350 per cent in FY19

The Indian IT industry is expected to add around 2.5 lakh new jobs this year, according to a TeamLease Services report.

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China's Bytedance says TikTok ban causing $500,000 daily loss, risks jobs

The developments have dealt a blow to the India growth plans of Bytedance.

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Apple's 5G iPhones to sport Qualcomm, Samsung chips

Earlier, Apple and Qualcomm settled their long-drawn legal war over patents and licensing at an undisclosed amount .

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Facebook announces 1st browser API for Chrome

This process of bringing its own API to the Chrome browser marks the new method of developing web standards at the company.

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Godaddy plans to connect WhatsApp business with Sellbrite

The platform, once live, will allow small sellers to list products across online marketplaces such as Amazon and eBay.

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Can’t do much about existing users of TikTok: MeitY

MeitY and Department of Telecommunications officials appear to be passing the buck to each other.

from Tech-Economic Times http://bit.ly/2GBRYtL

Jio fastest with 22.2 mbps download speed in Mar, Voda leads in upload: Trai

Bharti Airtel trailed Jio with less than half of download speed at 9.3 mbps.

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