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.
The government has said it does not have powers to regulate internet content, but suggested an institutional self-regulatory model similar to traditional media, a move that most online video streaming platforms have rejected.
Kotak Mahidra Bank managing director Uday Kotak said in the Two System Technology world of 5G, India will have to think hard if it wants to align with the western technology system wherein we also have our political alignment or the Chinese technology system, which will be good for our economy.
According to analysts, Samsung wasn’t as nimble as its Chinese rivals and couldn’t take advantage of the expansion in the online segment. They however added that Samsung can bounce back, given its investments in technology and local manufacturing, the reputation of its devices and the deep penetration of the offline phone market.
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The centre in India will be led by Vani Sharma as Center Head India & Vice President – Products, DataCore. The company plans to hire from educational institutions as well as laterally from the industry for the center.
The Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS) is officially called NAVIC which is an acronym for NAVigation with Indian Constellation. The regional geo-positioning system has been designed in India by ISRO to provide accurate positioning in India and around the Indian mainland. It is said to be more accurate than GPS.
All the telecom operators these days offer a decent 2 GB per day data on affordable plans. Here is a comparision of such prepaid plans being offered by Reliance Jio, Vodafone Idea and Bharti Airtel.
HTC Wildfire R70 comes with a 6.53 inch display with high-definition resolution. It has an Mediatek octa core processor inside and runs on Android Pie operating system. The phone boasts three cameras in the rear panel including a 16 megapixel primary camera and two 2 MP additional cameras. For selfies, it has an 8 megapixel camera in the front.
Manish Sharma, group operating officer at Accenture operations, takes charge of the $6 billion unit with over 141,000 employees on March 1, as part of Accenture’s recent reorganization. “I don’t want my people anywhere in the world to do boring jobs. We call it MRPT — measurable, repeatable, predictable and transaction work — that our people will not do,” Sharma told.
“We’re doubling our investment in cloud year-over-year. We want to grow faster and have stronger relationships with Microsoft, Amazon, Google but also leading Software-as-a-Service cloud vendors like Salesforce or Workday or SuccessFactors or SAP, and that is what our M&A strategy has been about,” Brian Humphries told.
According to Colliers International, between 2020-24, the office space is expected to witness average annual gross absorption of 5.1 million sq metres, outpacing the annual average gross absorption of the preceding five-year period by about 14%.
Tech companies like TCS, Infosys, SAP Labs India, AMD, Texas Instruments, Cognizant, Mindtree, Mphasis are set to crack the gender diversity code.
Live streaming — in education, gaming, commerce and sports — is emerging as the next big frontier for internet platforms in India. In China, a market with tremendous internet access, interactive broadcasting has been popular over the last five years, from e-commerce, social media, entertainment, fitness and even dating.
STL will leverage VMware vCloud NFV to install, manage and maintain the environment for network microservices such as switching, firewall, etc. The solution will enable STL to provide a commercial and stable release to telcos and large enterprise customers who are looking for a commercial rollout in the next few quarters.
Apple currently sells its devices through third-party reseller outlets like Amazon, Flipkart and Paytm Mall. Apple plans to sell its devices through its own website starting the later half of this year and will build a physical store, most likely in Mumbai, next year.
Speaking to investors at the annual shareholder meeting at Apple Park in Cupertino, California on Wednesday, Cook confirmed the company will open its first offline retail outlet in the world's second biggest smartphone market next year.
With a hope of getting larger chunk of $100 billion in global taxes to be paid by digital companies, India is pushing that number of users should determine taxes payable by digital majors in a country. The OECD under its Base Erosion and Profit Shifting initiative has come up with a number — $ 100 billion — in additional taxes digital majors need to pay globally.
Wipro Consumer Care Ventures, the venture capital fund of Wipro Consumer Care and Lighting, has acquired minority stake in personal care company LetsShave for an undisclosed amount. With this funding, the company has raised more than Rs 30 crore, according to people aware of the matter.
An expert committee will be constituted to suggest a new framework, he said, adding that inputs will be sought from the industry and experts. “A thinking is going on in the department to revisit the IT Act, it has been in place for the last 20 years and the IT ecosystem has developed beyond recognition (in that time),” said Prasad.
The Nano Lab will showcase the latest breakthroughs in applied research from Accenture Labs worldwide, featuring uses for advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence, extended reality and quantum computing. It will allow clients to connect with researchers in Accenture Labs globally through immersive sessions and workshops.
This is the first time Salman Khan has collaborated with a smartphone brand in India. Other popular brands such as Oppo, Vivo and Xiaomi had roped in various celebrities to advertise theirproducts.For example, Oppo signed actors Ranbeer Kapoor, Katrina Kaif andsinger-rapper Badshah to endorse its Reno series.
Google, Facebook and other platforms are struggling to keep ahead of scammers, trolls, and others with ill intent who routinely use major tragedies or disasters as opportunities to swindle or manipulate people.
Cautioning Indian policymakers on the perils of over-regulation, Nadella said the American company would conform to India’s privacy policy when it is implemented. But “policymakers (should) always think through what it means for citizens — for Indian society — (and) also for Indian entrepreneurs.”
Satya Nadella said, if you just celebrate your own market cap and you don't see success broadly around the world, then I think that market cap is going to be very transitory.
The company is planning to launch smart TV, smart bands, smartwatches, and other connected ecosystem products, with the newer categories expected to contribute Rs 3,000 crore or 10% to overall sales by this year end, Realme's CEO Madhav Sheth told.
GEM group will make the investment over the next 36 months for through a 'Share Subscription Facility' which will allow the company to sell American depositary receipts to the US fund house in exchange for drawing down available funds, Lava said in a statement.
The India-born top executive also highlighted that developers should work with diverse teams, so that "unconscious biases" do not creep into the models used for developing AI. According to Microsoft, there are about 4.2 million developers in India and the country is poised to become the numero uno destination for such talent in the coming years.
This Corporate Social Responsibility intervention by IBM engaged students through an on-campus approach in a 204 hour- long blended training model that uses online and face-face training immersions to build skills in data science and cloud computing. Students from 23 Tier-2 and Tier-3 non-technical institutions were trained by training partners TMI and iPrimed, the statement said.
This 5G-ready smartphone comes in three different models. There are also three different colours to choose from. The iQoo 3, which looks superb on paper, is priced Rs 36,999 onwards and will be available from Flipkart as well as from the company's website from March 4. Read on to know more about its specifications.
Everstone, which manages assets in excess of $5 billion, had partnered with Sunrise BPO in 2016 to launch Everise and expanded the business through multiple buyouts. Everise has a revenue of $230 million with an EBIDTA of $30 million for FY20.
Jio had earlier last year signed a long-term alliance with Microsoft for the launch of new cloud data centres. Under the deal, Microsoft will bring in the Azure Cloud on the Jio Network targeting the enterprise and small business users who want to make a shift to a cloud technology infrastructure.
"We've been working with Reliance across the entire stack - everything from what they are going to be doing with Azure in their own data centres and how they will extend it... It's sort of a great example of a business leader and a company which is in very diverse sectors to take a platform approach, to use technology to create more technology," said India-born Nadella at the event in Mumbai.
The collaboration will deepen the existing strategic partnership to provide a digital roadmap for Ahlstrom-Munksjö’s global business. The collaboration aims at a company-wide, multi-year business platform renewal program and will be a key enabler in Ahlstrom-Munksjö’s growth strategy implementation and it will be aligned with many of the ongoing development programs.
Deepak joined the company in 2011 and has more than 21 years of experience across different industries. He has previously worked at technology giant IBM and is also a post-graduate from Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore.
Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani on Monday said India is at the cusp of becoming a "premier digital society", and will be among the top three economies of the world.
India is among the largest markets for game downloads among emerging economies and is set to grow the game development market sharply. And Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani thinks that this could be the next big thing in India. With broadband connectivity, he said that gaming industry could be bigger than tv shows, movies, and music industry put together.
Stating that the last decade saw emergence of the aggregators, he asserted that aggregators are not enough alone. "We need to ensure that digital interventions lead to broadening of productivity."
The Mi MIX Alpha comes with surround display that wraps around the phone and it is an all-glass phone. In terms of specifications, the device features a massive 7.92-inch flexible OLED screen that offers a screen resolution of 2088x2250 pixels. However, There's no selfie camera on the Mi MIX Alpha.
The social media challenge, popularised first on short video app TikTok, starts with three people standing alongside each other, seemingly ready to jump into the air all at once. However, the two people on either side try to kick the legs out from under the one in the middle, making him or her fall.
Satya Nadella will head to Bengaluru on February 25 for the ‘Microsoft Future Decoded – Tech Summit’ in the city. In his keynote address, he is expected to engage with the audience on the future of technology and the role of Indian organisations in an “era of digital transformation.”
Analysts say Indian IT services industry in good space in both short and medium term.
An obsession with self-improvement and productivity is taking over our lives, enabled by an ecosystem of wearable gadgets, bullet journals and apps. An ecosystem of blogs, books, videos, podcasts and apps feeds the desire to improve oneself to the point that it feels like the central purpose of life, that failing at it would mean failing at life itself.
IT industry body Nasscom’s data on American employees – disclosed for the first time – shows that TCS has 20,000 such employees, Infosys 14,000, HCL 13,400, and Wipro 10,000. For all of them, these numbers are about 70% of their overall US employee strength (including those on visas).
The acquisition is aimed to scale Wipro Digital’s offering for chief marketing officers (CMO), connecting Rational Interaction’s ability to map and orchestrate the customer journey with Wipro Digital’s capabilities to design and build experiences at global scale, said Wipro in a press release.
Despite investing heavily since Chandra took charge, experts feel it will take the group 5-7 years to get going.
A few months ago, the company signed a $240 million multi-year deal with medical devices firm Invacare, providing ‘IT-as-a-Service’ through an achievementbased agreement.
The constantly evolving need for higher speed, along with plans for smart cities, industrial automation, connected devices, etc, make 5G inevitable.
There is a four-step moderation process to review posts so as to maintain the platform's credibility, its country head Nikhil Gandhi said. Speaking at an IAMAI event in Mumbai, Gandhi said the Chinese company, which has 200 million users, has "democratised" the art and culture scene in India.
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