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IT industry needs a 'skiller' app to double digital growth in 5 years

Access to digital talent has been identified as a key hurdle to doubling growth in the industry in the next five years. Here's how it's trying to bridge the gap

Tech firms reach out to employees as Covid-19 cases rise in India

Companies are advising employees not to venture out of their homes and give prominence to the health and safety of the family

Wipro appoints ex-Walmart exec Subha Tatavarti as Chief Technology officer

IT services major Wipro Limited on Wednesday said it has appointed former Walmart executive Subha Tatavarti as its Chief Technology Officer.

Power of tech tools: Andhra using AI to control electricity purchase costs

Day-ahead predictions are critical, as they have implications for how much electricity should be generated in coal plants and how much should be purchased through the open market

Indian tech services can touch revenues of $300-350 bn in next 5 years

According to a report by McKinsey & Company for Nasscom titled 'Future of Technology Services-Winning in this decade', tech spending is only going to be intensified in the next decade

Paytm bets big on IoT-driven devices to ease acceptance of payments

Voice-activated point-of-sale machines that work on a SIM card are a hit among small shopkeepers

Government to constitute empowered committee for high-tech manufacturing

The Cabinet Secretariat said the government has decided to constitute "an empowered committee for manufacturing in high technology areas" in order to facilitate investments and promote manufacturing

PE/VC investments gather pace in February: Here're the top 5 deals

The top 10 investments accounted for 69 per cent of the total deal value, according to Aurum Equity Partners

Data privacy: Tension between big technology firms and govt boils over

Experts expect more regulatory action in India against these firms, and say this could have an impact on other parts of the world as well

Karnataka govt, Nasscom launch ER&D policy to foster innovation in state

50% rent reimbursement, recruitment assistance and investmengt subsidy on anvil for MNCs looking to establish new R&D facilities or expand existing ones

Flex to Inventec, foreign players see potential in PLI for tech products

Lenovo India has said it would like to increase its laptop-making capacity by 10x at its Puducherry plant and also manufacture tablets

Budget funds digital governance

The use of a digital platform for the Census will allow official agencies to interpret vast amounts of information using data analytics. Such data will be able to feed other government programme

China regulators to push tech giants to share consumer credit data: Report

The latest regulatory attempt would likely dampen the scale and profitability of tech majors' credit businesses

Cognizant India net profit declines 11.4% to Rs 5,455 crore in FY20

Net profit declined 11.4 per cent to Rs 5,455 crore in FY20 from Rs 6,160 crore in FY19

With Alibaba investigation, China gets tougher on technology firms

China has produced its own crop of powerful internet titans, and they have been celebrated as icons of the nation's technological advancement.

India networking market declines 16.4% in third quarter: IDC report

India's networking market which includes ethernet switch, routers, and WLAN segments witnessed a 16.4 per cent year-over-year (YoY) decline in the third quarter of this year

Microsoft, Google, Dell join FB in legal battle against hacking company NSO

Tech giants including Microsoft and Google on joined Facebook's legal battle against hacking company NSO, filing a brief that warned that the Israeli firm's tools were "powerful, and dangerous"

Gig economy takes centre stage as tech boosts opportunities for workers

According to a Nasscom report, it will emerge a pioneer in this new workforce model over the next 2-5 years

Dell most trusted brand for 2nd straight year, iPhone at 4th slot: Report

A consumer poll has ranked American computer brand Dell as the most trusted brand in the country for the second year in a row, with Mi Mobiles occupying the second slot.

Google Cloud rolls out database migration service for enterprises

Google Cloud has announced that its server-less Database Migration Service is available in Preview, that will make it easy for enterprise customers to move production databases to the cloud