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Sunday, 14 October 2018

Cloudera appoints Vinod Ganesan as India Country Head

Prior to this, Vinod was head of the BFSI vertical at Hitachi Data Systems, and has worked at other technology companies like Sun Microsystems and Veritas Technologies

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We need to learn from the consumer product industry for next phase of growth in IT: Rajesh Gopinathan, TCS

Indian IT has gone through various phases. Now we need to step back and see what has technology done, said Gopinathan

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Twitter reinvents itself as agent of change in #MeToo era

The platform has been severely criticised for not doing enough to clamp down on hate speech, especially violent threats against women.

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Saturday, 13 October 2018

Infosys completes Fluido acquisition

Through this acquisition, Infosys strengthens its position as a leading Salesforce enterprise cloud services provider, and enhances its ability to provide clients with 'cloud-first' transformation, it said in a regulatory filing on Saturday.

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Two US senators urge India to soften data localisation stance - letter

In a letter to Modi dated Friday and seen by Reuters, U.S. Senators John Cornyn and Mark Warner - co-chairmen of the Senate's India caucus - urged India to instead adopt a "light touch" regulatory framework that would allow data to flow freely across borders.

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US wants to prohibit data localisation, top trade official says amid looming RBI directive

Mobile messaging platform WhatsApp has said it has built a system that stores payments-related data in India, in line with RBI's data localisation policy.

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Friday, 12 October 2018

TCS to see 28,000 campus hires, highest in 3 years

The attrition rate is relatively low at 10.9%, which prompted CEO Rajesh Gopinathan to say on Thursday that the company was a gold standard in talent retention.

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