Tamil Nadu chief minister Jayalalithaa has announced several new schemes for the information technology sector which includes free Wi-Fi facilities in public places like bus stands and parks. The government has allocated Rs 10 crore towards this and also Rs 1.5 crore each year as recurring expenditure. “As announced in the AIADMK manifesto, Amma Wi-Fi Zones will be set up […]
» Read moreUS tech giant Apple has acquired Tuplejump — a Hyderabad-based machine learning startup that helps companies to store, process and visualise big data with its unique software. Founded in 2013, Tuplejump’s two co-founders Rohit Rai and Satyaprakash Buddhavarapu have already joined Apple while third co-founder, Deepak Alur, joined Anaplan – a Cloud-based business modelling and planning platform for sales, operations […]
» Read moreHomegrown e-tailer Flipkart has crossed the 100-million registered users mark, becoming the first e-commerce company in the country to hit the milestone. The Bengaluru-based company has doubled its user base over the last year and added 25 million users in the past six months alone. “This is a small step in our efforts to build a platform that provides quality […]
» Read moreGoogle announced its Duo video calling app and Allo chat app at its I/O developer conference back in May this year. Last month, the company officially launched Duo, which shortly crossed 10 million downloads in just a month. Following up, Google has now officially launched Allo for everyone. For those unaware, Allo is a standalone messaging app that comes with […]
» Read moreWith an aim to enable banks globally to accelerate digital transformation while keeping technology costs under control, Infosys Finacle and Huawei on Thursday announced they are making Finacle Universal Banking Solution Suite available on Huawei’s Fusion cloud-basedplatform. With this, financial services clients can get substantial reductions in infrastructure and application management costs with high resilience and enhanced customer service efficiency […]
» Read moreOnline marketplace Snapdeal on Thursday launched its private Cloud platform named, Snapdeal Cirrus, which is built entirely on open source. Touted as a true hybrid Cloud, Snapdeal Cirrus expands seamlessly to public and allow various applications to be dynamically assigned to run in different parts of the Cloud. “Snapdeal Cirrus is one of the few successful examples globally of a […]
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