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SAP SE and the Indian School of Business (ISB) have announced a strategic partnership to nurture the social entrepreneurship ecosystem with relevance to national priorities. The ISB-SAP Social Enterprise Jumpstart will identify five social enterprise startups and provide training, mentorship and access to networks to accelerate their growth. SAP’s collaboration with ISB is in tune with its strategy to drive social entrepreneurship through alliance with leading Indian academic institutions. With this initiative, SAP will expand its thought leadership to much wider segment in the entrepreneurship ecosystem. SAP will bring in...

Karnataka Biotechnology and Information Technology Services (KBITS) will organize an event in Mangaluru to promote Information Technology (IT) sector. Chairing a preliminary meeting in this regard in Mangaluru on Thursday, AB Ibrahim, Deputy Commissioner of Dakshina Kannada district, said such an event will help showcase the potential of Mangaluru in the areas of IT and electronics manufacturing. However, the representatives from the IT industry, who attended the meeting, stressed the need for government support in bringing more IT players to the region, The Hindu reported. Praveen Kalbavi, Managing Director of the Mangaluru-based...

In a bid to retain its current market lead and boost smartphone sales, Samsung India Electronics will focus on all smartphone categories with different price tags. The company will also focus on new launches with innovative features to maintain its position and gain more market share, a top company official told IANS. Samsung currently has 48.3 per cent market share in terms of value while in January 2015, it had a share of nearly 35 per cent, and with the new launches it is looking to gain even more ground....

Business leaders are always in a search for the best team management practices to keep their employees focused and motivated. Now they are taking cues from video games (and other virtual games) to build a great team that is essential to an organization’s success. Experts now suggest, Pokemon Go, which has taken the world by storm, may be one of the best ways for CXOs to imbue new energy into their corporate culture. The augmented reality game released by Nintendo on July 5, did strike gold as Pokemon Go quickly...

In an effort to increase the number of women and other underrepresented groups in the computer science field, Facebook will be investing $15 million over the next five years to Code.org to enable the nonprofit to train teachers to teach computer science in urban public school districts and to expand learning opportunities for students. Facebook released a report on the diversity of its own employees, admitting the company has a long way to go before it has a diverse employee base, particularly for its technical departments and senior leadership. Only 17 percent...

Manufacturers’ Association for Information Technology (MAIT), the apex body representing ICT industry today signed an MoU with National Institute of Electronics & Information Technology (NIELIT) for capacity building of government offices in managing their e-waste. The MoU was signed by Dr. Ashwini Kumar Sharma, Director General, NIELIT and Anwar Shirpurwala, Executive Director, MAIT in the presence of Dr. Debashis Dutta, Scientist ‘G’ and Group Coordinator, Deity. As per industry estimates, an estimated 1.8 million tonnes of e-waste is generated in the country every year, and is likely to grow to...

Xiomi India has roped in Snapdeal’s ex senior director, Raghu Reddy as head of online sales. Previously, Reddy was heading Snapdeal’s mobile and tablet business. This is a big step by Xiaomi as the company mentioned earlier that they were unaware of their popularity in the country and did not estimate the proportion of sales. This led them to manufacture more handsets just to meet the requirements in India alone. Later they went ahead to launch new handsets in the country, which again went in their favor, and Xiaomi managed...

NVIDIA launched its first ever video game, VR Funhouse, offering free, virtual reality experience that provides enhanced graphics capabilities that is sure to delight gamers. The company also launched a unique and powerful screenshot capturing tool called Ansel which claims to offer “a new way to capture in-game shots”. The NVIDIA VR Funhouse will be available in July on Steam free of cost. Ansel screen capturing lets users compose their in-game shots from any position, adjust post-process filters, capture HDR images in Hi-Fi formats and share the screenshots in 360...

With World Youth Skills Day being marked on July 15th, Aide et Action, an international NGO launched the iDream mobile application, whereby youth with Android devices can get connected and trained via the Skill Development Programme called ‘iLEAD’. The launch has taken place simultaneously in 70 centres around South-East Asia including countries India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. The app is developed to help unemployed youth with skills and potential to mobilize him/her to the nearby training centers. “With the help of this application, which is available on Google Play Store,...