Google Pay launches 'Nearby Spot' to help users find local stores selling essentials

Google has launched 'Nearby Spot' under Google Pay using which users in Bengaluru can see local stores selling essentials like groceries that are open, amid the lockdown.

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Small captives may go on the block as a result of Covid-19 pandemic

There are about 1,400 captives in India and about 1,700 in the Philippines and broader Asia-Pacific region. About 40% of all captives have under 500 employees, data from IT consultancy and research firm ISG showed.

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Indian IT firms likely to persist with ongoing digital transformation projects

Service contracts for works such as automation of processes, movement of business applications to the Cloud (remote servers) and Artificial Intelligence-based process transformation are expected to continue since they result in short-term cost savings for businesses, analysts said.

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Google to help India keeping a track of movement and traffic across public places

The initiative, Google’s own, was done with a belief that “open data can benefit the world at large”, its chief privacy officer told ET. It was undertaken through Covid-19 Community Mobility Reports which capture the percentage change in traffic and movement across public places such as parks, transit stations and grocery stores.

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Manufacturing companies want sops to cover more electronic items

In its recommendations, seen by ET, the Confederation of India Industry (CII) also called on the government to declare the entire electronics industry as an ‘essential industry’ as the Centre looks at ways to restart industries and allow mobility of goods and services restricted due to the Covid-19 induced nationwide lockdown.

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Cities ping tech firms to build coronavirus-fighting tools

Indian cities are tapping tech firms such as Tech Mahindra, HCL Technologies and Infosys to build solutions that could help them tackle the spread of Covid-19.

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'Aarogya Setu's not all that healthy for a person's privacy’

IFF raised concerns about information collection, purpose limitation, data storage, institutional divergence, and transparency and audibility. These concerns come amid affirmative claims by certain sections of the government and technology volunteer groups that the app was designed with a “privacy-by-design” approach.

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