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Rajan Anandan Quits Google India, To Join Sequoia India As MD
Rajan Anandan, who led Google’s operations in India and South-East Asia, is leaving the company to join Sequoia Capital India. Anandan, who had an eight-year stint at Alphabet Inc.’s Google, will become managing director at Sequoia Capital India, the venture capital…
Rahul Gandhi’s Promise On Ease Of Doing Business Is Election Rhetoric At Best; Implementation Is Key
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India’s InMobi Ramps Up Ad Challenge To Google And Facebook
Low-profile Indian tech company InMobi aims to take advantage of the headwinds facing Google and Facebook to grab a bigger share of the nearly $140 billion market for online advertising. The Bangalore-based company, which brings together advertisers and app developers,…
No Walkover: Spotify Faces Tough Competition From Amazon, Apple Apps
Within a week of its launch in India, international music streaming platform Spotify made headlines by clocking one million users. While it is late to the party — Apple Music, Amazon Music and Google Play Music have been around, along with long-standing Indian players…
Spotify Had No Choice But To Offer An Excellent Free Service In India
It might be late to the party, but the Swedish music streaming app Spotify is trying really hard to make up for the lost time in India. The Stockholm-based company launched in the country yesterday (Feb. 27) with freebies and…
Amazon Has Ambitious Plans To Earn From Virtual Assistant Alexa
Amazon is working with brands across sectors to enable them to build skills on its Alexa platform. From daily news updates to smart-home integrations, banking services, food ordering and cab hailing, Alexa has been equipped with skills as the service expands.…
Intel India FY18 Profit Up 4.6% To Rs 379 Cr, Revenue Grows 23%
Intel India saw profits grow 4.6% to Rs 379 crore and revenue by 23% to Rs 4,149 crore in fiscal 2018, according to the company's filings with the Registrar of Companies (RoC). The company has seen increased competition from peers such as…
Netflix Hasn’t Increased Prices In India Probably Because It Can’t Afford To
On Jan. 15, video streaming service, Netflix, made headlines as it increased its subscription cost by 13-18% across the US and Latin America. This is the biggest increase by the company since its inception 12 years ago and will impact 58 million American subscribers,…
As Action Moves To Cloud, Server Sales Take A Hit
Server sales in India declined for the first time due to weak demand from IT services firms, whose clients are increasingly renting space on the cloud to host applications instead of setting up their own infrastructure. Analysts said there were examples of…
Microsoft India’s Software Sales Stay Flat In FY18
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Vodafone Idea Outsourcing Deal To Exceed USD 1 Billion for IBM India
Vodafone Idea Ltd. (VIL), India’s top telecom operator, may miss an internal deadline of December 2018 to finalise new IT contracts, and is holding advanced talks with US software major IBM to finalise a multi-year deal by March end, which, some estimates suggest, could…
Can WNS Transform Itself In Its Bid To Multiply Its Revenues?
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India’s HCL Bets $1.8bn On Long-Selling IBM Software
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Tackling The Product-Services Conundrum
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HCL Technologies-IBM Deal Fails To Enthuse Investors
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Why HCL-IBM Deal Is Failing To Excite Investors
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HCL Tech Just Added Some Not So Sharp Tools In Its Shed (From IBM)
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TCS Wins US Lawsuit Over Alleged Staff Discrimination
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How Indian IT Companies Are Transforming Themselves To Achieve Faster Growth
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As Jack Dorsey Visits India, Experts Feel Twitter Still Has A Long Way To Go Here
Even as Twitter co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey makes the right noises on his maiden visit to India, experts feel the social media platform has missed several opportunities to make itself relevant in the country. “At a time when the current government…
Indian IT Industry Is Beginning To Reap The Benefits Of Up-Skilling Its Coders
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How To Choose Between Google One, OneDrive, iCloud
In a bid to enhance its revenue from storage on the cloud in India, Google Inc. has launched a new cloud storage subscription service called Google One. The idea, according to the company’s tagline, is to “get more out of…
The Next 20 Years Could Be Even Bigger And More Challenging For Google
When Google started 20 years ago, the mission was to organise the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. That seemed like an incredibly ambitious mission at the time-even considering that in 1998 the web consisted of just…
Open Source Office Software Suites For The Enterprise That Can Rival Microsoft Office 2019
Open-source office software is increasingly proving to be a worthy alternative to licensed office software suites, say analysts and industry experts. According to Sanchit Vir Gogia, chief analyst, founder and CEO of Greyhound Research, a lot of organizations are using…
Dell Beats HPE To Become Global Market Leader In Server Sales
After over two decades of selling servers, Dell Technologies, for the first time, has become the undisputed leader in both units and revenue for servers worldwide, in the first quarter (January-March) of the calendar year 2018, said a top executive…
Dell Sharpens Focus On AI Suite As It Prepares For A Digital Future
Dell is sharpening its focus on technologies like AI suite comprising machine learning and deep learning, IoT, robotics, human-machine partnerships—all in an effort to stay relevant in the digital world. According to a Greyhound survey titled ‘State of AI 2017’,…
The Weird, Wild World of Live Streaming
Sanchit Vir Gogia, Founder & CEO of Greyhound Research believes that live streaming is a profitable business and more startups will come to the fore in the future. But he also warns that individual users should be more careful about how much…
Innovation Drives The Wheels Of Fortune: Sanchit Vir Gogia
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The Rise Of Virtual Assistants
Search is now moving towards voice commands and giants like Google, Amazon, Apple and Microsoft are trying their best to bring in the change in consumer behaviour. “You have all the information at your fingertips,” is soon going to be replaced by, “You just…