Jio Platforms receives Rs 2624.50 cr from Intel Capital, Qualcomm

While Intel Capital gets 0.39% of equity , Qualcomm Asia Pacific gets 0.15% in Jio Platform. Intel has invested Rs 1894.50 crore and Qualcomm has put in Rs 730 crore .

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Six in 10 women possess high creative thinking in beginning of career: Survey

The ‘Women in the IT sector in India’ survey, which has responses from 5,388 IT professionals across India from 22 to 47 years of age, shows that 60% women and 40% men possess high decision making and creative thinking in the beginning of their careers.

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Smart@Work: Small and medium businesses get the online edge

Small and medium businesses in India may have been slow to embrace technology ten years ago. But today, largely owing to the advances in digital applications — including high-speed wireless internet and wider use of smartphones — they have become willing converts.

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Digital payments: Pandemic does what demonetisation couldn’t do

The pandemic has done what even demonetisation couldn’t do — bring about a big shift in payments from cash to the digital. And it’s here to stay, even when things get back to normal, say industry specialists while cautioning about the threat cyberattacks pose to digital payments.

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Zomato, Swiggy get notices from Google for violating Play Store norms

"Yes, we have received a notice from Google. We believe that the notice is unfair, but we are a small company and have already realigned our business strategy to comply with Google's guidelines," a Zomato spokesperson said in an e-mailed response.

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India sees second highest usage of Cisco’s virtual meeting app Webex after US

Sameer Garde, president, Cisco, India and SAARC, told ET in an interview that more than 4 million trial licences were issued during the past six months across the country and average monthly usage had increased from nearly 1000 users a month before March to 900,000 users a month currently.

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India's AI spending to grow at 30.8% CAGR to USD 880.5 million in 2023: IDC

"Enterprises are relying on AI to maintain business continuity, transform how businesses operate and gain competitive advantage. India's AI spending will grow from USD 300.7 million in 2019 to USD 880.5 million in 2023 at a CAGR (Compound annual growth rate) of 30.8 per cent," as per IDC's Worldwide Artificial Intelligence Spending Guide Forecast.

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Japanese tech firm NTT to invest $2 bn in India data centre business over next four years

The company will invest the funds in expanding its data centres and networks as well as new solar power projects in India. The company also launched its first 50 MW Solar Photovoltaic (PV) power plant in Solapur, Maharashtra, in partnership with Tata Power.

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Google Meet to give unlimited calls in free plan till March 2021

Google in April announced that anyone with a Google account was allowed to create free meetings with up to 100 people with no time limit till September 30 in the pandemic times. Google is now extending that policy and free Meet users can host longer calls through March 2021.

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Increase your productivity the smart way by buying a PC that fits all your needs

Our complete dependency on the internet & a robust PC has become the need of the hour. Maintaining high productivity levels as before is not enough in 2020.

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Many Apple services hit by outage, glitches

Some users were affected for a majority of the services, Apple said, adding that for two of the services — AppleCare in iOS and Apple School Manager — "all users were affected". In its latest update on the situation, the company gave the list of services that have now been restored.

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Google can't force app developers selling e-services to use Play billing system: Startups

Google said apps that choose to sell digital content through its Play Store have to use Google Play billing system and pay a percentage of the in-app purchase as a fee. This would mean that any app that offers in-app purchase of digital goods like unlocking additional features or buying tokens to power up a game character or paying for songs, will be required to use Google Play's billing system.

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IAMAI calls founders meet to discuss Google's decision to make its billing system compulsory for in-app purchases

Google has made it compulsory for developers to use Google Play Billing system as the only method of payment for in-app purchases. The policy is applicable for purchase of digital goods and not physical goods.

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India's external storage market sees 37 pc decline in growth on COVID-19 woes: IDC

The majority of the y-o-y decline is due to the impact of COVID-19 resulting in delayed demand for storage across organisations during the quarter, IDC said in a statement.

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Microsoft Corp says disruption to Teams, Outlook resolved

The company said it has rolled back an update to its services, which had likely caused the disruption. Microsoft did not disclose details on how many users were impacted, but outage tracking website Downdetector.com showed that at its peak nearly 8,000 individuals reported issues with Teams and Outlook on late Monday.

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US elections 2020: Facebook India fact checker NewsMobile and UC Berkeley startup FakeNetAI to detect deep fakes on social media

Other fact checkers said while Facebook has not issued any new guidelines or instructions to Indian fact checkers for the US elections and state elections in Bihar it would be work as usual for them.

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COVID-19 impact on demand has stabilised, co back on 'good' growth trajectory: HCL Tech

​​Speaking at the company's 28th Annual General Meeting (AGM), chairperson Roshni Nadar Malhotra said the company has seen growth in several areas, including infrastructure and cybersecurity services, e-commerce, digital marketing and digital experience.

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Android app makers have use Play Billings for in-app purchases: Google

This would mean that developers will have to start using Google's billing system that charges a 30 per cent cut of the payment made within the app, starting September 2021. Any app that chooses to offer in-app purchase of digital goods like unlocking additional features or buying tokens to power up a game character or paying for songs, will be required to use Google Play's billing system.

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Google Meet new features: Noise cancellation, voice amplification, auto participant framing

Each Series One kit includes a regular or extra large true 4K smart camera that captures every detail, with the Smart Camera XL featuring 20.3MP and a 4.3x zoom. The Compute System in Series One is purpose-built for Meet on Chrome OS, making it easy to install and keep up to date.

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Study says social groups still risky for children

The study between June and July 2020 found that as of early June, up to 110 out of a total of 182 WhatsApp group links that were shared with the social media company in 2019 were “still active and operating”.

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Cloud services firms to resist Trai move to impose new rules

Later this week, the cloud companies plan to petition the department of telecom (DoT) through industry groupings — Nasscom and Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) — protesting against the recommendations released by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai), two weeks ago.

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Ilantus Technologies appoints Arun Singh as CEO

Singh is joining Ilantus from EY where he was Principal and Americas Advisory Risk Leader for Cybersecurity. At EY, he led numerous consulting and managed services engagements for clients globally and built Cybersecurity-as-a-Service offerings to grow business.

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Three top Apple suppliers to commit $900 million to India smartphone incentive plan, say sources

India's new $6.65 billion production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme offers companies cash incentives on any increase in sales of locally-made smartphones over the next five years, compared with 2019-20 levels

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Like US and China, India must ensure that foreign tech companies here are locally owned

India could learn from both countries, requiring that Facebook India be sold to one of India’s tech tycoons. This would be one step to ensuring that all data be kept locally and tightly protected, and that the algorithms that determine the information that users will receive – which, after all, influences their behaviour -- truly reflect India’s culture and values.

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ITI will be able to produce 4G, 5G equipment in a few months: Tech Mahindra

The country's potential to produce talent and software at large scale, coupled with geo-political scenario with China, presents a wonderful opportunity for India to indigenise technologies, Tech Mahindra network services CEO Manish Vyas told PTI.

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Samsung may log $54.5bn in sales, to sell 80mn Galaxy phones in Q3

Samsung was projected to log $54.5 billion in sales in the July-September period, up 3.1 percent from a year earlier, while operating profit was estimated to surge 33.7 per cent (year-on-year) to $8.8 billion over the period, according to Yonhap Infomax, the financial news arm of Yonhap News Agency.

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Free Google Meet version to limit meetings to 60 mins from Sep 30

"If this changes, we'll be sure to let you know." From September 30, access to advanced features for G Suite and G Suite for Education customers, including allowing meetings of up to 250 participants, live-streams of up to 100,000 people within a single domain, and the ability to save meeting recordings to Google Drive will also not be there.

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Federal judge postpones Trump ban on popular app TikTok even as ByteDance rushes to talk deals

The ruling followed an emergency hearing Sunday morning in which lawyers for TikTok argued that the administration's app-store ban would infringe on First Amendment rights and do irreparable harm to the business. Earlier this year, President Donald Trump declared that TikTok was a threat to national security and that it must either sell its U.S. operations to American companies or be barred from the country.

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Will Indian IT majors see Covid impact like Accenture did? There's one reason why they may not

Indian IT services peers of Accenture have faced challenges during the first quarter (April-June) due to delay or cancellation of certain projects in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. That said, Indian companies have comparatively less dependence on the segment that contributed majorly to the US giant's decline this quarter.

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Indus OS turns profitable, targets new smartphone users

The company has become profitable on the basis of earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation, and has an annual recurring revenue of $10 million. Indus OS claims to have more than 100 million users. It monetises the app store by charging apps for premium placement on the page as well as promotional activities.

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US firm Iron Mountain in talks to buy Web Werks

Web Werks is expected to attract a valuation of $180-200 million, said three people with direct knowledge of the matter.

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Accenture offers 7-month severance payout to staff

Accenture is offering a seven-month severance payout to employees impacted by its latest layoffs. The package is high considering most companies offer a two-three months’ payout, or one month of salary for every year of service put in.

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Infosys’s data and analytics business is now worth $3 billion

Satish HC, EVP and head of global services for DNA, says they realised early on that data had become a new pivot for business transformation.

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Banned Chinese apps re-enter in new avatars

Scores of new Chinese apps have flooded Indian app stores in the last few months including several rebranded versions of applications banned by the government in recent months citing threat to national security.

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Messages are end-to-end encrypted, says WhatsApp amid alleged leaks

"WhatsApp protects your messages with end-to-end encryption so that only you and the person you're communicating with can read what is sent, and nobody in between can access it, not even WhatsApp," a WhatsApp spokesperson said.

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Jio partners United Kingdom's AeroMobile for in-flight connectivity services

Jio's in-flight roaming bundle beginning at Rs 499 will offer 250 MB data, 100 minutes of outgoing calls and 100 SMS for one day for Jio customers travelling abroad. The service will be extended to domestic flights as well once the service is available in Indian airspace, Jio said in a statement on Friday.

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Despite app ban, ByteDance doles out cash bonuses to employees in India

The move is in line with a global announcement through an internal memo earlier this month, wherein ByteDance stated it will be issuing a cash bonus to all eligible employees to help them overcome the ‘challenges posed by the Covid-19 pandemic and the changing macro environment.’

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Lenovo Announces Smart And Intuitive AI-Enabled Yoga Slim 7i In India

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Facebook-Matrix Partners plan to scale small and medium businesses

Facebook has partnered with the venture capital firm Matrix Partners as part its VC Brand Incubator Program to help scale and support early-stage small and medium businesses.

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Dollar Fight: Indian YouTubers lag in global earnings

Ajey Nagar is the top individual YouTuber from India, according to a recent report by financial insights hub Top Dollar. The popular comedy content creator and gamer has more than 25.7 million subscribers for his channel CarryMinati.

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Apple and Google face heat as smaller app rivals organize a coalition, bring the fight to them

Spotify, the music streaming app, criticized Apple for the rules it imposed in the App Store. A founder of the software company Basecamp attacked Apple’s “highway robbery rates” on apps. And last month, Epic Games, maker of the popular game Fortnite, sued Apple and Google, claiming they violated antitrust rules.

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Google services go down in some parts of U.S. including email, YouTube

Google users experienced a widespread service disruption on Thursday evening, including the company’s email, YouTube and Google documents services.

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Samsung renews aggression to build online handset business; to bring India-specific handsets

"We have partnered with Flipkart for the global launch of our F series and Flipkart Smart Upgrade upgrade, which is powered by our Galaxy Forever platform. With these, we are looking at a strong festive business this year," Asim Warsi, Senior Vice President, Samsung India told ET.

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Google files for Competition Commission of India approval for stake buy in Jio Platform

The parties named in the transaction filed with CCI are Google International LLC (GIL) and Jio Platforms(JPL). ET was the first to break the story in in its July 22 edition that Google will need CCI approval for its investment.

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Cisco aims to cut per-bit data cost for Airtel, Jio 5G users

The California-headquartered networking giant has more than 125 active engagements globally for next-generation networks, and close to 50 telecom carriers are actively testing and deploying its prestigious 5G offering dubbed as Cisco 5G Now solutions.

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Women fashion retail chain maurices hires TCS as technology partner

TCS will be the company's digital transformation partner and build its greenfield IT ecosystem with the intent of optimizing its 200 existing applications and software components within the next 17 months.

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Allowed to share GPay customer transaction info with 3rd parties with NPCI permission: Google to HC

Google, in its affidavit, has contended that under the UPI procedural guidelines, issued by the NPCI, apps like GPay are permitted to share customers transaction data with third parties and group companies with prior permission of NPCI and PSP banks.

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Judge rules in favour of Oracle in Labor Department’s $400 million pay bias lawsuit

The matter dates back to 2014, when the US Department of Labor's Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) audited the California-based firm and later sued it in 2017, alleging that the company owed women and minorities $400 million in unpaid wages between January 2013 and December 2016.

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Samsung expands online smartphone range in India to woo holiday shoppers

Samsung will launch the new India-made Galaxy F range of smartphones at Walmart Inc-controlled online retailer Flipkart on October 8. The series is aimed to address the burgeoning demand among the young online shoppers in India, Samsung said.

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US proposes changes in legal immunity for internet platforms

The US Justice Department unveiled a legislative proposal on Wednesday that seeks to reform a legal immunity for internet companies and follows through on President Donald Trump's bid from earlier this year to crack down on tech giants.

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