Smartphones emerge as bright spot for Indian manufacturing

Modi's vow to create tens of millions of new jobs has stuttered on many fronts, but domestic smartphone production has emerged as a bright spot for Asia's third-largest economy

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We are seeing better momentum for large deals: Abidali Neemuchwala, CEO, Wipro

Right now the demand environment looks quite good… both for Wipro and in general for technology services, says Wipro's CEO.

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India's data localisation push can give rise to new business opportunity

With RBI not budging on financial data localisation and the government finalising the data bill, a new business opportunity is set to explode

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Narendra Modi calls on IT sector to pool resources for social causes

PM Modi launched an app and portal called Self4Society, which is aimed at pooling the resources that corporates put in towards social causes and aligning them with government initiatives.

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Yahoo to pay $50 million, other costs for massive security breach

It adds to the financial fallout from a security lapse that provided a mortifying end to Yahoo's existence as an independent company and former CEO Marissa Mayer's six-year reign.

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Telecom department asks internet providers to block 827 porn websites

While the Uttarakhand High Court has asked to block 857 websites, the Ministry of Electronics and IT (Meity) found 30 portals without any pornographic content.

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Wipro appoints former SBI chairman Arundhati Bhattacharya as independent director

Bhattacharya’s appointment is for a period of five years and is subject to shareholder approval, the company said.

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