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Apple CEO Tim Cook’s recent India visit seems to have proved fruitful for the company. Apple has gained a lot from the major policy reforms of the Indian Government in Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). After the government cleared roadblocks, Apple is expected to open up exclusive retail outlets across regions and strengthen its service support for Apple lovers in the country. Bringing major reforms in the FDI policy, the Indian government has allowed 100 per cent FDI in single-brand retail trading in the country among other sectors. The decision was...

Education-technology start-up, ConnectEd Technologies creates hyper-scalable, rural-focused solutions, launched a campaign, named ‘EkShiksha’ jointly with the state education department. Read Also:Education Sector Generating Maximum Demand For Projectors In India-BenQ The campaign aims at uniting socially-responsible corporates, NGOs, school managements and grass-root level educators to eliminate the educational inequity and provide world-class education to children studying in rural schools across the state. Read Also: Digital Transformation Needs To Storm Educational Institutions According to the statement issued by startup , under this campaign, rural schools will be equipped with ’smart classrooms’ by...

Venture Catalysts has announced its launch of its services in the city of Surat. The expansion will unlock access to Venture Catalysts’ proprietary start-up enablement platform to promising ventures and investors from Surat and nearby locales. This will also enable investors in Surat to now get access and invest in National and Global ideas that come from the VCats platform. Gaurav Singhvi, founder of The Financial Supermarket Group will oversee VCats’s Surat operations as the Managing Partner. VCats will also be providing other services such as mentoring, networking, co-working facility...

Consumers will increasingly use digital personal assistants to interact with consumer services in the connected home, according to Gartner, Inc. Gartner predicts that, by 2019, in at least 25 percent of households in developed economies, the digital assistants on smartphones and other devices will serve as the primary interface to connected home services. “In the not-too-distant future, users will no longer have to contend with multiple apps; instead, they will literally talk to digital personal assistants such as Apple’s Siri, Amazon’s Alexa or Google Assistant,” said Mark O’Neill, research director...

Amazon has reportedly witnessed a 250 percent year-on-year growth in bringing new sellers on board as it looks to tap into the booming e-commerce market in India. According to reports, the high growth figure is attributed to the e-commerce major’s decision to reduce commissions that are charged to sellers for multiple categories like electronic goods, mobile phones and tablets in order to help them sell at a lower cost. Amazon, which competes with the likes of Flipkart and Snapdeal, has cut its commissions by 25-30 per cent across categories. The...

IBM recently launched new global programmes which tools in India to boost developers’ skills around Cloud and emerging technologies such as Internet of Things (IoT). “The world will be re-written in code and much of it will be done right here in India,” said Vanitha Narayanan, Managing Director of IBM India, in a statement. According to Narayanan “IBM’s leading capabilities in Watson, IoT, Cloud, mobile and blockchain will help developers innovate and succeed. At IBM, we are committed to investing in this ecosystem and will continue to collaborate with developers...

Crime continues to forge new paths into business. Regulatory compliance adds stress and burden to responsible organizations. The increasingly complicated landscape challenges the balance between resources and growth. The use of technology and digitization has escalated have escalated cyberattacks in India, and nearly 70 per cent of Nifty 50 companies are vulnerable to hackers, reveals a PwC survey. According to Times of India 50 companies studied, 34 (or 68 per cent) had identified vulnerabilities in at least one or more of their Internet-facing properties. Read Also:India, US Join Hands To...

Software piracy is a major issue across the world, costing businesses a big deal of money. A new study on software piracy reveals that countries with high cognitive intelligence face lesser issues of software piracy. The recent paper titled ‘Intelligence and Crime: A novel evidence for software piracy’ by three researchers from Germany’s MPRA correlates national intelligence, expressed in average national IQ points, with software piracy. The researchers have obtained data from 102 countries in 2011. They inferred that countries with ‘higher intelligence’ show lower levels of software piracy as compared to...

It has been a myth earlier by Small and Medium Businesses (SMBs) that latest technology is a concern for a big corporate only. Apparently, more than 70 per cent of the SMBs were into the businesses because they were supposed to be there. The small entrepreneurs who took the businesses forward as a tradition followed the same old school methods to do businesses.The SMBs have large targets, huge client list and lots of data to work with. In the era of cut throat competition, increasing efficiency and reducing cost are...

HCL Technologies (HCL) has announced that it has signed a strategic IT partnership contract with LeasePlan, a global fleet management and driver mobility company. Under the terms of agreement, HCL will create Group Competency in collaboration with LeasePlan Information Services to provide IT solutions in various domains such as core leasing platforms, business intelligence and data warehousing solutions, enterprise IT solutions, and application development & maintenance services. HCL will manage and enhance some of the existing application suites, including core leasing platforms, development and roll-out of global IT programs and...