Facebook global executive meets IT minister, discusses cross-border data flows

Terming India as a "huge market" for Facebook and its group companies, Nick Clegg said the US tech giant is "keen to make progress" on rolling out its payments services on WhatsApp.

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Google to pay 465 million euros in additional taxes in France, boosting settlement to 1 billion

"We have put an end to the tax and related disputes we had had in France for many years," Google said in a written statement.

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Facebook urges India to share data, not hoard it

“There are many in India and around the world who think of data as the new oil, and that, like oil, having a great reserve of it held within your national boundaries, will lead to sure fire prosperity. But this analogy is mistaken,” Nick Clegg, global head for public policy at Facebook, said at an event on Thursday.

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Business, investors, regulators and civil society need to work together for better privacy: Omidyar report

Omidyar Network India came out with a report that identified ten solutions for data privacy.

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Azim Premji turns nostalgic over 40-yr association between Wipro, IISc

Addressing Convocation 2019 at IISc, he recalled that in 1979, Wipro approached the newly set up Centre for Scientific and Industry Consultancy at IISc for a consultancy project.

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Shivalik partners with Infosys for Digital Banking

A cloud based, digital transformation solution is a cost-effective way to modernize and expand the business, while giving our customers a world class banking experience.

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Merger of public sector banks a positive, seeing strong growth in intl biz: Infosys Finacle

"Impact is positive...last year, the government had merged Bank of Baroda with Dena and Vijaya, the platform is ours," Infosys Finacle Senior Vice President and Global Head of Sales Venkatramana Gosavi said.

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