US biotech company Monsanto and Microsoft have announced a partnership to invest in agricultural technology startups in Brazil. Monsanto will join a Brazilian investment fund with up to 300 million reais ($92 million), managed by Microsoft, evaluating ideas for new digital tools to be applied to agricultural production in the country, executives said. Selected ideas will receive initial funding of up to 1.5 […]
» Read moreThe Supreme Court on Tuesday pulled up Google, Yahoo and Microsoft for failing to check advertisements pertaining to pre-natal sex determination, saying they were violating the Indian law. A Bench of Justice Dipak Misra and R. Banumathi asked the Centre to convene a meeting of technical experts and those with the search engines within 10 days to explore ways to […]
» Read moreStaffing companyTeamLease Services today said it will acquire ASAP Info Systems for an enterprise value of Rs 67 crore. The Bengaluru-headquartered ASAP Info Systems offers IT staffing solutions to various MNCs and domestic companies, with over 1,000 associates and 171 core employees as of date. “The transaction, which will be immediately accretive to TeamLease’s earnings per share, will be financed […]
» Read moreA US-based research firm is predicting that India’s IT services industry will lose 6.4 lakh “low-skilled” jobs to automation in the next five years, quantifying the extent of likely pain for the first time, but Indian industry experts are urging caution and point to the other side of the coin — the creation of new jobs in large numbers. By 2021, […]
» Read moreAppium was developed by Dan Cueller, who had previously worked at Zoosk and Microsoft. It is an open source mobile functional testing framework that allows coding in the language of the coder’s choice. It was recently included in this piece by Forbes. Sauce Labs announced the release of Appium 1.5.3 through npm and the Sauce Lab on June 8. Appium 1.5.3 […]
» Read moreZylpha (www.zylpha.com) the UK’s leading legal systems innovator has integrated its bundling technology with NetDocuments, the Security as a Service system for Cloud based document and email management. The Zylpha integration will enable NetDocuments users to produce secure high-quality court and other bundles in a fraction of the time taken previously. To ensure optimum usability, the all new ‘ground up’ […]
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