Indian IT helps global healthcare firms fight Covid-19

Pune-based Persistent Systems has, along with the Biocomplexity Institute, created Covid-19 response solutions for nurses as well as mobile apps for patients.

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External attacks on cloud accounts increase by 630% with WFH: McAfee

In a study titled ‘Cloud Adoption & Risk Report – Work-from-Home Edition’, based on anonymized and aggregated data from more than 30 million McAfee MVISION Cloud users worldwide, the firm revealed potentially long-lasting trends that include an increase in the use of cloud services, access from unmanaged devices and the rise of cloud-native threats.

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Google faces antitrust case in India over payments app

The complaint alleges the U.S. tech giant more prominently showcases its Google Pay app inside its Android app store in India, giving it an unfair advantage over apps of competitors which hurts consumers, the source added.

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Refurbished, pre-owned smartphones in focus amid consumer income crunch

Omni-channel goods’ resellers such as OLX, Quikr, Cashify and Yaantra are witnessing a flow in demand towards the organised refurbished and pre-owned smartphone market in just over a week of easing of lockdown restrictions. The major challenge for the industry as of now though is the continuous supply of smartphone parts from China which is expected to normalise in 5-6 weeks

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COVID-19 to accelerate digital adoption in India; Jio helped spur internet usage: Morgan Stanley

India's total online shopper base at 30 per cent of its internet population is low when compared with 78 per cent in China and 70-plus per cent in the US. Morgan Stanley projected India's 670 million internet users to rise to 914 million by 2027 and online shoppers to jump to 590 million from 190 million in 2020.

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Zoom Video names Indian-origin Velchamy Sankarlingam as president of engineering and product

Sankarlingam comes to Zoom after more than nine years at VMware, where he was most recently Senior Vice President, Cloud Services Development and Operations. Reporting directly to Zoom CEO Eric S. Yuan, Sankarlingam will oversee the company’s engineering, product, and dev ops teams.

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Nokia shuts Sriperumbudur facility after employees test positive for coronavirus

ET wrote to Nokia to find out how many employees from the Sriperumbudur plant had tested positive and is awaiting a response from the Finnish firm. The factory had resumed operations under the standard operating procedures that had been laid down by the State government as the lockdown norms were eased for the manufacturing sector, in a bid to revive the economy.

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