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Google CEO Sundar Pichai to meet Pranab Mukherjee and Narendra Modi
Google CEO Sundar Pichai will meet President Pranab Mukherjee and Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his first visit to India since he took the top job in August. There will be no new launches this...
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Apple, Samsung Pay joins China’s UnionPay
Apple, Samsung and China’s UnionPay announced a partnership on Friday to bring the digital wallet of Apple Pay and Samsung Pay to China, cashing in on the popularity of such services in the country....
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Tech Mahindra launches contactless digital payment MoboMoney
Tech Mahindra has launched contactless digital payment ecosystem called MoboMoney in India. MoboMoney, a prepaid wallet issued in the form of an NFC (Near-Field Communication) Contactless Tag, can be...
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Online movie portal HeroTalkies.com gets investment
Chennai-based HeroTalkies.com, an entertainment start-up offering legal, online streaming of Tamil movies, has raised its first round of investment from actor-producer Suriya’s 2D Entertainment and a...
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GM invests $500 million in Uber rival Lyft
Ride-hailing application startup Lyft has received a $500 million investment from automobile major General Motors to build a fleet of driverless cars. Lyft, based in San Francisco, investment from...
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Payments technology and transaction processing major Financial Software & Systems (FSS) has signed up with the US-based Montran Corporation to be the latter’s exclusive systems integrator in India,...
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Zomato shuts down operations in four cities
Food ordering app company Zomato announced on Monday it will be shutting down its online ordering service in Lucknow, Kochi, Indore, and Coimbatore, as the size of the markets are small in these...
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Digitization to influence auto industry till 2025
Connectivity and digitisation are the most important trends which could influence the global automobile industry from 2016 to 2025, said KPMG Global Automotive Executive Survey (GAES). The report is...
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CarTrade raises Rs 950 crore to fund online expansion
Online auto classifieds platform CarTrade on Wednesday announced raising Rs 950 crore from Temasek, March Capital and existing investor Warburg Pincus. “We are extremely happy to have Temasek and...
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Softbank invests Rs 100 crore more in Housing.com
Real estate portal Housing.com received Rs 100 crore investment from Japanese Softbank. Housing.com CEO Jason Kothari said Softbank’s support in the dual role of an investor and advisor is invaluable...
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5 ways our lives have changed with lifestyle apps
In today’s age of smartphones and easy-to-use mobile devices, almost everything we do happens through a neatly bundled package of code known as an ‘app’. Apps are the cornerstone of smartphone...
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IBM to buy digital agency Aperto
Enterprise IT vendor IBM announced its deal to acquire Aperto, Berlin-based digital agency. Aperto will become IBM’s second acquisition of a digital agency in one week. Aperto 300-plus employees will...
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Yahoo to cut 15% workforce, close several offices, products
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer today announced the digital media company’s decision to reduce its workforce by roughly 15 percent or 1,700 jobs in Q1 2016 to save more money. Yahoo made a loss of $4,359...
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IBM agrees to acquire ecx.io
IBM today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire ecx.io — a full-service digital agency headquartered in Dusseldorf, Germany. In a press statement, IBM said, the acquisition of...
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IBM to assist Consolidated Edison Company’s AMI program
IBM announced today that it has been selected by Consolidated Edison Company of NY and Orange and Rockland Utilities to provide services to implement an Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) program....
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Intel freeD video to excite NBA All-Star 2016 fans
Image: www.nba.com Viewers of the NBA All-Star 2016 would be able to enjoy a 3-D experience in their televisions and digital media powered by Intel. Under the partnership between Intel and the National...
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TCS opens Digital Re-imagination Studio in Santa Clara
Tata Consultancy Services launched a Digital Re-imagination Studio in Santa Clara. This new facility brings a start-up culture to large enterprise clients, expanding TCS’ current footprint in Santa...
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China tops in digital payment adoption worldwide
China has the highest adoption rate in the world for technology-enabled payment systems, the media reported on Thursday. In a survey of 13,000 respondents in 26 countries, 86 percent of Chinese...
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Digital skills aid narrow workplace gender gap
Digital fluency — the extent to which people embrace and use of digital technologies to become more knowledgeable — plays a key role in helping women to achieve gender equality, a research by...
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Sonia Uppal empowers rural India in learning computer programming
Echoing Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s call to bridge the “digital divide” in the country, a young Indian-American student has begun on her journey to empower rural youth in learning computer...
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