TCS wins Plaza Premium deal to digitise global airport hospitality

The long-term partnership focuses on reimagining the end-to-end airport travel experience across three core areas: customer experience, employee experience and operational excellence.

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Infosys extends digital innovation partnership with Australian Open

The extended collaboration with Tennis Australia will introduce enhanced broadcast match statistics and new initiatives to make tennis more accessible for all, while continuing to develop innovative digital stakeholder experiences.

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ShareChat parent raises $266 million at $3.7 billion valuation

The investment was led by Alkeon Capital with participation from new and existing investors including Temasek, Moore Strategic Ventures (MSV), Harbourvest and India Quotient. This is the third round of funding for the startup in 2021.

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Google threatening to fire unvaccinated employees: Report

Tech giant Google has reportedly told its employees that they will lose pay -- and will eventually be fired -- if they do not comply with the company's Covid-19 vaccination policy.

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Intel to invest $7 billion in new plant in Malaysia, creating 9,000 jobs

Intel will invest more than $7 billion to build a new chip-packaging and testing factory in Malaysia, CEO Pat Gelsinger says, expanding production in the country following a global chip shortage.

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Zoom joins tech industry's counterterrorism group in the US

The Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism, or GIFCT, is an independent group through which member companies share information to combat terrorism and violent extremism on their sites.

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Apple delays return to office indefinitely: Report

Apple Inc. is delaying its return to office plans indefinitely, Bloomberg reported, while the company said it has temporarily closed three stores in the US and Canada after a rise in Covid-19 cases.

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AWS recovers from brief outage affecting third-party services

Amazon Web Services' dashboard that logs outages showed that it had resolved the issue affecting internet connectivity to Oregon and northern California regions.

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Reddit files for US IPO

Social media platform Reddit has confidentially filed for a proposed IPO to the US Securities and Exchange Commission.

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Crypto consolidation is coming; IT minister on $10B chip scheme

India's cryptocurrency bill may not be introduced in the current session of Parliament, we reported yesterday, but it seems the crypto industry has been well and truly spooked by reports of its contents.

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'Some parts of data bill may be at odds with global frameworks'

These include provisions on non-personal data as well as data flow restrictions, said Katherine Charlet, director, data, Google, while pushing against the country’s data localisation norms.

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Uber looks to sell Didi, other non-strategic stakes: CEO

Speaking at a virtual fireside chat with a UBS analyst, Dara Khosrowshahi said many of the companies Uber has a stake in have recently gone public and are still subject to a lock-up period.

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Cryptocurrency Bill may not be introduced in Winter Session

The issues being debated include the need for wider consultation and seeking comments from the public as well as whether the Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) to be introduced by the Reserve Bank of India needs to be a part of this bill or should be dealt with under the RBI Act.

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YouTube says services fixed after disruption affects thousands

"If you were having a slower than normal experience or were having trouble accessing YouTube earlier today - this has been fixed! The issue ran for about 20 mins," YouTube tweeted.

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Tata super app delayed again; Amazon tells CCI it didn't hide facts

In September we reported that Tata Digital's 'super app' was on hold till there was clarity on India's ecommerce rules. Now, sources have told us the much-delayed app is likely to be launched in March 2022.

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Lenskart on verge of closing $250 million funding round at $5 billion valuation

The valuation is close to the market capitalisation of recently listed Warby Parker, an American online retailer of prescription glasses and sunglasses.

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DeFi players reach out to govt over crypto law

Want govt to distinguish them from cryptocurrency exchanges

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D2C startup Bewakoof adds marketplace Bazaar to its platform

The company, which is backed by investors such as InvestCorp, IvyCap and Spring Marketing Capital, has so far raised $23 million.

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Nestasia bags $4 million funding led by Stellaris Venture Partners

Several angel investors who are part of the Stellaris Founder Network, an exclusive group of more than 60 entrepreneurs and industry professionals, also participated in the round.

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Did not hide any facts related to future deal, Amazon tells CCI

The Indian arm of the US ecommerce major had a hearing with the antitrust regulator on Monday where its senior officials answered queries from CCI on the Future deal, a person aware of the matter told ET.

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