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Google India registered a flat standalone profit of Rs 1,436.9 crore in the financial year ended March 2025 due to lower revenue and higher employee and tax expenses, according to a regulatory document shared by market intelligence firm Tofler. The company logged a profit after tax of around Rs 1,425 crore in the preceding financial year. When contacted, a Google India spokesperson said that the financial numbers of 2025 were not comparable with those of 2024. "Profit of Rs 1,425 crore for 2024 includes profit from the IT division. The IT division was demerged into a separate company (Google IT Services), so the 2025 GIPL profit numbers do not reflect IT division profit," the spokesperson said. The spokesperson further said that the net revenue for 2024 includes adjustment (addition) of Rs 229 crore, which pertains to the revenue of fiscal years 2016-17 to 2022-23 but reflected in 2024 based on the BAPA agreement signed with the Indian government. A note in the company's financial
India faces a lower risk of AI-driven disruption to cognitive jobs compared to Western economies, IT Secretary S Krishnan has said, citing the country's relatively lower proportion of white-collar roles in the overall workforce, and highlighted that the dominance of STEM-based employment can yield newer opportunities. Krishnan said AI's (Artificial Intelligence) real impact will come from building and deploying sector and use-specific applications, a process that will require large numbers of trained professionals. He added that this is where India's strength lies and where new AI-driven job opportunities will emerge. "... For India, where the number of white-collar jobs relative to other jobs is much lower than in the West, this risk to cognitive jobs, I don't think, is as serious as it is in other places. Also, the fact that most of our white-collar jobs are in the STEM space and... means that we have an opportunity...," Krishnan told PTI in an interview, as he weighed in on the AI
US-based IT firm Kyndryl on Thursday announced a three-year partnership renewal with Vodafone Idea (Vi) to transform the telecom operator's IT operations and provide a unified and integrated cyber resilience framework. Kyndryl will develop and implement a cyber resilience framework centred on security governance, zero-touch services, data protection, identity and access management, security operations, and incident recovery. The company will also revamp Vi's cybersecurity architecture to improve compliance with upcoming regulatory requirements, the company said in a statement. Further, Kyndryl will deploy a next-generation IT operations delivery model based on advanced automation and data-driven insights, alongside driving large transformation projects in backup, storage management and continuous data protection (CDP) to provide the telco with enhanced operational agility and reduce costs. Vodafone Idea will continue to use Kyndryl Bridge, an AI-driven integration platform, to boos