Chennai-headquartered ICT solutions provider Sify Technologies on Saturday announced that it will set up its largest global delivery centre (GDC) in partnership with Japanese ICT major Fujitsu Limited in the city. The company has acquired 1.5 acres in the Financial District and will be pumping in $20 million in the first phase of the project, Sify Technologies chief executive officer […]
» Read moreMicrosoft increasingly has an emoji problem as the company’s Windows 10 operating system lacks the latest set of characters. Emoji are, essentially, a special type of digital text. The characters are set out by an organisation called the Unicode Consortium, and are subsequently adopted by a variety of software companies — including Apple, Microsoft, Google, Twitter, and others. But Microsoft […]
» Read moreIT major Infosys has invested USD 3 million in U.S.-based wearable device startup firm WHOOP to pick up a minority shareholding in the company. In a regulatory filing, Infosys said it “has made an investment of USD 3 million (about Rs 20 crore) in WHOOP, an early stage company offering performance optimisation system for elite professional sports teams.” Infosys said […]
» Read moreDuring an average week, executives at two of India’s largest software exporters, Infosys and Wipro, meet dozens of startups in Silicon Valley — the world’s biggest startup hub and home to tech giants such as Google and Facebook. These executives are starting to quietly acknowledge one fact — India’s startup ecosystem is still at a very nascent stage and finding […]
» Read moreaking a comeback to the Indian market, audio devices maker Altec Lansing aims to garner revenues of $15-20 million from the country in the first year of operations. The brand, which has been licensed in India by Trade Bazaar (a part of Konark group), will be sold online through Flipkart and later will be expanded to other e-commerce platforms and […]
» Read moreOla has appointed Rajiv Bansal as its chief financial officer (CFO). The former Infosys CFO will be joining Ola’s leadership team in January next year. Its current CFO Mitesh Shah will lead strategic finance initiatives as part of Bansal’s team. Bansal, who was a former EVP and CFO at Infosys, resigned from the second-largest IT services firm in October. He, […]
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