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After IBM & Amazon, Microsoft stops selling face recognition tech to police

Microsoft's president and chief counsel, Brad Smith, announced the decision and called on Congress to regulate the technology during a Washington Post video event on Thursday

Corona warriors: How tech titans are helping govts fight the pandemic

Several top technology firms are assisting governments to better manage their pandemic response, reports Peerzada Abrar

Top headlines: IPO filings dry up, challenges for Maruti Suzuki, and more

From IBM dropping its facial recognition software, Irdai withdrawing its long-term covers on motor to FM telling banks to improve interest rate transmission, here are the top headlines on Wednesday

IBM drops facial recognition software amid racial profiling concerns

Krishna on Monday sent the letter to Congress outlining detailed policy proposals to advance racial equality in America

IBM exits facial recognition biz as CEO calls out inequity in tech usage

IBM will stop offering facial recognition software and oppose any use of such technology for purposes of mass surveillance and racial profiling, said company's CEO Arvind Krishna

Wipro, IBM announce collaboration to develop hybrid cloud offering

Hybrid cloud offerings would help businesses migrate, manage and transform mission-critical workloads and applications, with security across public or private cloud and on-premises IT environments

IIT Mumbai alumnus & IBM scientist Rajiv Joshi named Inventor of the Year

Joshi was presented with the prestigious annual award by the New York Intellectual Property Law Association early this month during a virtual awards ceremony

Coronavirus has accelerated importance of AI, hybrid cloud: IBM CEO

Speaking during a keynote at the IBM's Think Digital 2020 conference, Krishna said the pace of adoption of transformation journeys by enterprises has been "compacted" into months

IBM gets 'The Weather Company' going to empower farmers during lockdown

Firm's 'operations dashboard' works as a meteorologist-in-a-box to provide weather data insights

Wall Street drops on oil price crash, earnings anxiety; Dow falls over 1%

Energy stocks shed 1.9% and were on track for their sixth slide in seven sessions as the front-month May US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) contract plunged more than 50%

IBM to Cognizant, global tech firms ink large leasing deals in Bengaluru

The lease deal has a tenure of five years and IBM will pay a rent of Rs 75 per sq ft or Rs 65 crore per year

Deregulate large-scale philanthropy

The purpose and performance of these companies do not demonstrate that any one class, on a secular basis, is superior or inferior in these respects.

IBM, NASSCOM make 2500-plus students employment-ready

These students are from 23 colleges across Karnataka, National Capital Region and Haryana, a joint statement said.

Virginia Rometty steps down, IBM elevates Arvind Krishna as CEO

Krishna will take charge on April 6, while Rometty, who has been at the helm since 2012, will continue as executive chairman until the end of the year

Top headlines: Eco Survey 2019-20, Wipro's Abidali Neemuchwala steps down

Economic Survey for 2019-20 was tabled in Parliament on Friday and projected the country's gross domestic product (GDP) to grow between 6 - 6.5 per cent in financial 2020-21 (FY21)

Arvind Krishna named IBM CEO as company fights for cloud business spot

IBM is a late entrant to the business of cloud services, a segment now dominated by Amazon and Microsoft.

New IBM CEO Arvind Krishna described as 'brilliant, right person to lead'

Krishna said IBM has such talented people and technology that we can bring together to help our clients solve their toughest problems

IBM receives record 9,262 US patents in 2019; India 2nd-highest contributor

In 2019, IBM was granted patents across key technology areas such as artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain, cloud computing, quantum computing and security

IBM announces appointment of company veteran Sandip Patel as new India MD

Patel succeeds Karan Bajwa who has decided to pursue opportunities outside of IBM

IBM appoints Sandip Patel as MD of its India and South Asia operations

He succeeds Karan Bajwa, who is quitting the company to pursue opportunities outside of IBM