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Thursday, 7 May 2020

Oversight Board will take on hardest and the most disputed cases: Brent Harris, Facebook

The board, which will have its own website, is housed under a trust, which the social media giant says is independent of Facebook and is endowed with $130 million.

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Covid-19 will push a lot more customers to look at outsourcing: HCL CEO

Traditional services also have some very strong propositions, like digital workplace, engineering services. Some of the demand for that is intact and it is only getting accelerated.

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KN Govindacharya sends legal notice to govt on Aarogya Setu privacy concern

The Aarogya Setu app, which has been downloaded by around 90 million people, has been made mandatory for government as well as private sector employees and for people residing in containment zones – a localised area that has reported a positive case of Covid-19 infection.

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Wednesday, 6 May 2020

Cognizant to acquire cloud consultancy Collaborative Solutions

The transaction is expected to close in the second quarter of 2020. This is Cognizant’s fourth acquisition of a cloud services related business.

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Infosys sees an opening as clients turn to large firms to cut costs

“Some clients are looking at consolidation. In this crisis, they have had mixed experience of work-from-home from different players. So, they feel, if this lasts 12-18 months, they would want to put their bets on larger players who have done well in transitioning to this new way of working,” Infosys Chief Operating Officer UB Pravin Rao told.

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Facebook announces 20 members of the Oversight Board

Brent Harris, Facebook’s director of governance and global affairs had stated in January that the company has been laying the groundwork for a new independent organisation, the Oversight Board, to review cases and make binding content decisions.

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Rights group IFF moves PMO, MHA against mandatory app download

The Noida administration, on May 3, issued an order under Section 144 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, mandating those residing or entering Noida to install Aarogya Setu, failing which they would be criminally prosecuted under Section 188 of the Indian Penal Code.

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