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Airtel-ZEE5 Extend Partnership As Telcos Inch Towards Bundled App Ecosystem
Customers of Airtel Thanks will now get free, unlimited access to ZEE5’s premium content library as part of their exclusive benefits, the companies announced. Airtel, like rival Reliance Jio, has been inching towards a bundled app ecosystem powered by content.…
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Airtel Selects IBM And Red Hat To Build Open Hybrid Cloud Network
Bharti Airtel (“Airtel”), one of India’s largest integrated telcos, has selected IBM and Red Hat to build its new telco network cloud, designed to make it more efficient, flexible and future-ready to support core operations and enable new digital services.…
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Airtel Selects IBM And Red Hat To Build 5G-Ready Open Hybrid Cloud Network
Bharti Airtel has selected IBM and Red Hat to build its new 5G-ready telco network cloud to support core operations, monetise the telco’s pan-India 4G network with the help of new services and be more competitive against main rival Reliance…
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Airtel Dials IBM As Battle With Jio Heats Up
IBM on Monday announced a major deal with Bharti Airtel to build a new open hybrid cloud network that will be more efficient and flexible than what exists now, will enable new digital services, and be ready for emerging technologies…
Reliance’s Jio Platforms In Talks With General Atlantic, Other Foreign Funds For Stake Sale
Reliance Jio has cut three equity deals with three major investors in three weeks. First came the $5.7 billion stake sale to Facebook, making it the largest minority shareholder in Jio, followed by another 1.15 percent dilution to Silver Lake…
3 Deals In 3 weeks: Vista Equity Now Invests $1.5 Billion In Reliance Jio
Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Jio has been able to attract the third big investor - Vista Equity Partners - which is the world’s largest tech fund following its landmark deal with Facebook. Sanchit Vir Gogia, Chief Analyst and CEO, Greyhound research…
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Vista Stake Caps $8 Billion Deal Run for Asia’s Richest Man
Billionaire Mukesh Ambani is a man on a mission: to dominate India’s consumer Internet market -- from online retail to digital payments. He just sealed three deals in as many weeks to raise a combined $8 billion, including from Facebook…
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Enterprise Tech Is Offering Deals, Freebies At Pandemic Sale. The Real Aim: Get Customers Locked In.
Even as India entered lockdown, there was a surge in the number of deals. On offer were huge discounts, easy financing terms, buy-now-pay-later schemes, and free three-month trials. The catch: These deals were not from real estate, telecom, or e-commerce,…
Aarogya Setu Explained: Why It’s Draconian, Ineffective, Yet Needed
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Silver Lake Checks Into Jio Platforms, Snaps Up 1.15% For Over Rs 5,600 cr
Reliance Jio Platforms (Jio Platforms), a subsidiary of Reliance Industries (RIL), is selling 1.15 per cent stake to private equity (PE) firm Silver Lake for Rs 5,655.75 crore. The investment — the second in a fortnight - highlights its focus…
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PE Giant Silver Lake That Backed Alibaba, Airbnb, Others Takes Reliance Jio Closer To IPO
American private equity giant Silver Lake Partners' investment in Reliance Jio comes in less than two weeks of the Facebook deal. Silver Lake has paid a 12.5 percent premium over Facebook. Its $750 million infusion in Jio Platforms takes the…
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Silver Lake Investment A Shot In The Arm For Jio Platforms
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Albeit Critical Contact Tracing Apps Alone Won’t Help Flatten The Curve
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COVID-19 Is Evolving Quick, So Should You Dear Technology Decision-Maker
Nobody wants to be slotted or be identified as a specific type of individual. But the fact is, we are all, a particular type. We all have our strengths, our quirks, and a lot more that allows those around us…
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NTT Elevates India CEO Kiran Bhagwanani, Rejigs APAC Leadership
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IT, ITES Work From Home Set To Spearhead New Corporate Business Models
India's IT and ITES sector spearheading the work from home (WFH) model is set to usher in a radical restructuring of business models that will transform everything from collapsing management hierarchies, expenses on commercial real estate to the hiring of…
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Indian IT Majors May Hire More Americans After Trump’s Tough Talk On Immigration
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Truecaller’s True Calling
When Swedish nationals Nami Zarringhalam and Alan Mamedi founded Truecaller in 2009, they didn’t have India on their radar, not even remotely. They had built the caller-id app for personal use, to screen calls from angry companies who wanted reviews…
How Wipro Is Shunning Risk And Chasing Innovation
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World Is Adapting To Remote Working Environment, Even If Virus Is Gone The Work From Home Lifestyle Won’t
Last month, Google’s chief business officer Phillip Schindler was explaining to his employees via videoconferencing why Silicon Valley-based start-up Zoom has edged out some of the biggest names in technology, when suddenly his son surfaced on the camera and asked…
A Host Of Troubles For OYO
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RedHat Summit 2020 Reinforces Focus On Hybrid Cloud
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Mandatory Work From Home Is The (Near) Future Of Work
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IT Firms Lean On Utilities & Communication Arms
Indian IT services providers Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys and Wipro expect their communications and utilities verticals to clock steady growth, even as the core financial services, retail and travel segments take a hit due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Clients in the travel and hospitality industry have already reduced…
Reliance Jio Connects With Facebook For $5.7 Billion Equity Deal
Facebook and Reliance Jio hit the headlines early Wednesday morning, in a break from the daily lockdown news. Mark Zuckerberg announced in a Facebook post that the technology giant will acquire a 9.99 per cent stake in Jio Platforms Ltd (JPL) through a fresh issue of shares worth…
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Facebook-Reliance Deal To Boost JioMart, Open Door For Small Businesses
India’s small and medium businesses (SMBs), which are struggling due to the covid-19 pandemic, got a shot in the arm on Wednesday with social media giant Facebook announcing a $5.7-billion investment in Jio Platforms Ltd, which is owned by Reliance…
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Facebook Investment In Jio Is Deeper Than It Appears
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Contact Tracing: A Tool For Mass Monitoring Not Mass Surveillance
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Companies To Seek Technological Intervention To Reinforce Business Post-Pandemic Shutdown
Companies across sectors are more likely to look out for advanced tools and technologies that could facilitate their business growth multifold once the shutdowns following the Coronavirus pandemic are lifted worldwide, a top Verizon executive said.Australia-based Robert Le Busque, Managing Director at Verizon Asia Pacific, …
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