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IIT Kharagpur sees a record 1,000-plus placement offers in five days

Top recruiters include Honeywell, which made 36 offers, followed by Exel (25), Microsoft (24) and Barclays (20)

Microsoft top recruiter with over Rs 1-crore annual package at IITs

Placements details for the first slot are awaited for IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Kanpur, IIT Roorkee, among others

Robotics automation firms may not hold on to their high valuations for long

For instance, intense competition from global tech giants such as Microsoft, IBM apart from IT services firms is likely to change the RPA landscape. This, in turn, will lead to dilution in valuation

International offers, packages to go up as IITs begin placements on Sunday

Microsoft, which had emerged the top recruiter last year offering a $215,100 (Rs 1.5 crore roughly) package, is expected to make a similar or a slightly higher package to IIT students on Sunday

Infosys launches Microsoft Azure-powered security solution Cyber Next

Microsoft Azure Sentinel is a threat averting solution for enterprises, combining the American software giant's decades long security experience with artificial intelligence and cloud

Amazon moves federal court against Pentagon's cloud contract to Microsoft

The company did not explain the basis for its complaint

Microsoft granted licence to export 'mass-market' software to Huawei

The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump said this week it would allow some suppliers to restart sales to the Chinese telecoms giant

Oracle India's FY19 revenue exceeds Rs 10,000 cr, net up 8% at Rs 540 cr

Oracle, which provides a range of technology-led services to various enterprises and government bodies, competes with the likes of IBM, Microsoft and Google in India.

Microsoft to integrate Google's services into Outlook.com webmail client

The company has started testing integrating Gmail, Google Drive, and Google Calendar on some Outlook accounts

Microsoft CEO Nadella tops Fortune's Businessperson of the Year 2019 list

Fortune's annual Businessperson of the Year list features 20 business leaders "who tackled audacious goals, overcame impossible odds, found creative solutions".

Top headlines: Sebi tightens default disclosure norms, India's sops, & more

Here are the top news stories that made headlines today

Ola, Microsoft to measure real-time street level air quality data in Delhi

The project is set to begin this month and is expected to collect millions of data points over the course of one year to complete the spectrum of variation in Delhi's air-pollution.

Bill Gates is worth $110 bn, tops Jeff Bezos as world's richest person

Bill Gates may have been helped in part by the Pentagon's decision to award a $10 billion cloud-computing contract to Microsoft.

Amazon to sue Pentagon over grant of $10-billion contract to Microsoft

The 10-year contract, which is intended to transform and modernise the US military's cloud computing system, is considered significant, owing to its centrality to "new forms of war"

Pentagon-Microsoft $10-billion cloud deal awarded fairly: US Defence Secy

Esper said he was confident the competition 'was conducted freely and fairly without any type of outside influence'

Microsoft to apply California's digital privacy law across US from Jan 1

The law allows people to request that data be deleted and gives them the opportunity to opt out of having their information sold to a third party.

IIM-A concludes summer placements; Microsoft makes highest number of offers

Over 40 firms participated in the third cluster, comprising eight cohorts or sectors

Pre-placement offers double at IIT Hyderabad, mostly from IT and ITes

Recruiters include Microsoft, Goldman Sachs, Amazon and Arista; Two offers are international

Microsoft, Nokia collaborate once again after failed $7bn smartphone deal

Microsoft has announced a strategic collaboration with the Finnish company to accelerate transformation and innovation across industries with Cloud, Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Things

Microsoft relaunches its Bing 'search engine for business', Edge browser

The company said it is uniting the Internet with users' intranet with Microsoft Search in Bing so that they can increasingly access more of your important data in a single browse and search experience