Baring Asia set to accept $3 billion Carlyle offer for Hexaware

If the deal is materialised it will be the biggest deal in the domestic software services space.

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Google Play app store revenue hit $11.2 billion in 2019, lawsuit says

Attorneys general for Utah and 36 other U.S. states or districts suing Google over alleged antitrust violations with the app store also said in the newly unredacted filing that the business in 2019 had $8.5 billion in gross profit and $7 billion in operating income, for an operating margin of over 62%.

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Indian mapmaker powering Apple Maps, Amazon Alexa looks to IPO

The firm, backed by Qualcomm Inc. and Walmart Inc.-owned payments startup PhonePe, is targeting an IPO size around $175 million at a valuation of about $825 million

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IT companies stagger fresher hiring through the year

Tata Consultancy Services has been selecting trainees through its National Qualifier Test (NQT) for the last few years. “While we continue to induct majority of talent from campuses at the beginning of the year, now that we have NQT being conducted every quarter, we do have the opportunity to hire campus talent during the year as well,” said Girish Nandimath, global head-talent acquisition at TCS.

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PM Narendra Modi at Mann ki Baat: Startup culture now vibrant in India

Asserting the young population's mindset has undergone a sweeping change, he said it is now keen on new destinations and new goals by taking new paths and having new aspirations.

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Designing Happiest Minds to exist in perpetuity

Executive Chairman Ashok Soota quest of designing Happiest Minds for perpetuity lies in three dimensions — ownership, leadership and business strategy.

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All systems stable, UIDAI says after reports of Aadhaar-linking outages

There have been no outages in UIDAI’s Aadhaar-linking facility with Permanent Account Number (PAN) and the Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO), which is an authentication-based facility.

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