IT news
Govt does away with registration requirement for BPO and ITeS units
11 Nov 2020
The liberalised guidelines will tremendously reduce the compliance burden of the BPO industry while also removing requirements such as bank guarantees, static IPs, frequent reporting obligations, publication of network diagram etc as also several other requirements that prevented companies from adopting ‘Work from Home’ and ‘Work from Anywhere’ policies
Infosys announces big pay hike as Q2 net vaults 20.5% to Rs4,845 cr
16 Oct 2020
Infosys announced 100 per cent variable pay along with a special incentive for Q2 in addition to rolling out salary increases and promotions across all levels, effective 1 January, in recognition of the “stellar performance” by employees
Acer launches MaxMini, smallest PC
By Our Corporate Bureau | 06 Oct 2020
Google launches `Google News Showcase’; to pay publishers for content
01 Oct 2020
Australia wants to force Google and Facebook to share advertising revenue with local media groups while European groups see Google’s News Showcase as another product to dictate terms and conditions
Indian tech firms join to fight Google’s app store monopoly: report
01 Oct 2020
Google has demanded that starting next year developers with their app on its Play Store must give the company 30 per cent share of all app-related payments
TikTok prefers Oracle over Microsoft for a deal in US
14 Sep 2020
With President Trump’s 20 September deadline for a sale of TikTok’s US business and China erecting new regulatory hurdles, the situation looks very complicated for a deal to go through
China invokes new rules to block sale of TikTok
04 Sep 2020
The Chinese government last week added several artificial intelligence features to a list of export-restricted technologies, effectively gaining the right to block a deal by TikTok
Prime Minister Modi’s Twitter account hacked
04 Sep 2020
Featured articles
Lighter than air, yet very, very powerful
By Kiron Kasbekar | 03 Jan 2024
In March 2013 Chinese scientists pulled off a remarkable feat. They created the world’s lightest aerogel. Tipping the scales at a mere 0.16 milligrams per cubic centimeter – that’s a sixth of the weight of air!
COP28 explained: A closer look at COP28's climate change solutions
By Aniket Gupta | 27 Dec 2023
The 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as COP28, took place from 30th November 2023, to 13th December 2023, at Expo City in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
What is a Ponzi scheme?
By Aniket Gupta | 06 Dec 2023
Ponzi schemes have long captivated the public imagination, drawing unsuspecting investors into a web of illusion and deception.
The Rise and Rise of HDFC Bank
03 Jul 2023
HDFC, which surged ahead of global majors like HSBC Holdings Plc and Citigroup Inc and left Indian peers like State Bank of India and ICICI Bank in market capitalisation, now ranks fourth largest among the world’s most valuable banks, after JPMorgan Chase & Co, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd and Bank of America Corp
India’s Millet Revolution To Enrich Global Food Basket
02 Apr 2023
Millets, a healthier and cheaper substitute to wheat and rice, are indigenous to many parts of the world, especially in the semiarid tropics of Asia and Africa, and offers a big scope for expanding production and consumption in the foodgrain deficient African continent
Market predator Hindenburg preys on Adani stock
06 Mar 2023
Almost a month after the damning report of short-seller Hindenburg Research on the Adani Group that claimed that the seven stocks within the group were about 85 per cent overvalued, one of the group's stocks, Adani Total Gas, closed at Rs835 on the BSE, down nearly 79 per cent from its 24 January level, almost close to reaching that valuation
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