Airtel appoints Abhay Savargaonkar as chief executive of new fibre company

The Sunil Mittal-owned telco, which confirmed Savargaonkar’s new role, made an internal announcement to this effect last week.

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Football fans worry patchy data will hamper Facebook’s streaming of La Liga

La Liga will be streamed free to Facebook members in India. But many in sports and media industry say the viewing experience may be challenging.

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Persistent Systems to host 12-hour hackathon under IBM's Call for Code initiative

Persistent, which is one of the partners for the programme, will conduct the hackathon at its offices in Pune, Nagpur and Goa.

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Facebook should be treated as content creator: US attorneys

The case involves Facebook arguing that it should not count as discrimination when they only show housing ads only to a particular community.

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Trai consultation soon on traffic management practices for net neutrality

The discussion paper to tackle the twin aspects is likely to be brought out in about a month's time, and the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) intends to follow the consultative process before finalising its views on the issue, the official said.

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Intel India trains 99,000 people in artificial intelligence

Intel powers as much as 97 per cent of data centre servers running AI workloads at present in the world.

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US tech giants plan to fight India's data localisation plans

U.S trade groups, representing companies such as Amazon, American Express and Microsoft, have opposed India's push to store data locally.

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