Amazon, Flipkart, Ola, other apps shed weight to pass Indian internet test

US data speed tester Ookla too has ranked India 109th in its list of 124 nations on overall mobile internet speeds, with an average download speed of 9.12 mbps.

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Inside Google's shadow workforce of contract labourers

About half of Google’s workers are contractors who don’t receive the same benefits as direct employees.

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Wistron yet to identify customers, says CM's office

A CM's office press release had said that Wistron will make iPhones, among the other things, at its upcoming facility.

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IT Ministry wants WhatsApp to prioritise fake news issue over payments service plans

WhatsApp has been told that the fake news issue is far more important than other plans in the current circumstances.

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New developer requirements are to protect our platform: Twitter

Starting Wednesday, all new requests for access to Twitter’s standard and premium APIs are required to go through its new developer account application process.

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Automating job skills matching using Artificial Intelligence

Finding the right candidates and matching them with the right role is at the core of HR, but it's beyond human capacity to do this without an error, merely on the basis of an individual's resume.

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Persistent Systems invests in big data firm Cazena

The company has gained significant traction as enterprises face massive skills shortages in big data, cloud and associated development operations, or ‘DevOps’.

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