IT news
Swine flu fear grips B’lore as 2 SAP employees test H1N1 positive
21 Feb 2020
SAP, which has its office in one of the city’s largest tech parks, RMZ Ecoworld on the Outer Ring Road (ORR), announced temporary closure of its offices in Bengaluru, Gurgaon and Mumbai, and said it is tracing the contacts the infected colleagues may have come across
Google to end its free Wi-Fi programme
18 Feb 2020
Microsoft opens engineering hub in NCR, its third in India
18 Feb 2020
IDC-NCR will house Microsoft’s engineering teams across technology groups, including Artificial Intelligence and Research, Cloud and Enterprise, and Experience and Devices, along with Core Services Engineering and Operations as also the Mixer, the live streaming gaming platform team, becoming the first such center outside Redmond, the company headquarters
Amazon wins stay on $10 bn US military contract for Microsoft
14 Feb 2020
Amazon has alleged vendetta by President Donald Trump to shut it out of the contact and has sought testimony from the President and other top officials on the reasons for awarding the cloud computing contract to Microsoft
Alphabet reports $10.7 bn 2019 net income on revenues of $46.1 bn
04 Feb 2020
Alphabet’s investments in deep computer science, including artificial intelligence, ambient computing and cloud computing, provide a strong base for continued growth and new opportunities, says CEO Sundar Pichai
Arvind Krishna to replace Ginni Rometty as IBM CEO in April
31 Jan 2020
Current CEO Ginni Rometty will become chairman of the board at IBM while Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst will be president
Wipro CEO and MD Abidali Z Neemuchwala steps down
31 Jan 2020
Neemuchwala, who has been with Wipro since April 2015, will relinquish his responsibilities only after a successor is appointed in order to ensure a smooth transition
Infosys Q3 net vaults 23.5% to Rs4,457 crore
10 Jan 2020
Infosys also increased its FY 20 revenue guidance to 10.0-10.5 per cent in constant currency, while maintaining operating margin guidance range at 21-23 per cent
Transformation of Logistics sector with AI and other Modern Technologies
10 Dec 2019
The capabilities of AI are seriously ramping up company efficiencies in the areas of predictive demand and network planning
Larry Page and Sergey Brin step down; Pichai to head Google and Alphabet
04 Dec 2019
“There is no one that we have relied on more since Alphabet was founded, and no better person to lead Google and Alphabet into the future,” Larry Page and Sergey Brin stated in a letter they wrote about the transition at blog.google
IT companies look to cut jobs in India as hiring in US rises
11 Nov 2019
Forced to hire more in the United States, major IT companies, including TCS, Wipro and HCL, are doing a balancing act by cutting jobs in India and beefing up in new areas of digital technology and AI
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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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