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INDIAN IT IN NUMBERS
(Updated May 20 2022)
Total no. of phone subscriptions: 1.165 billion (1165 million)
Mobiles: 1140 million Landlines: 25 million
Broadband Internet users: 800 million including mobile Internet 775 million
and wired broadband 20 million.
TV owning houses: 210 million
DTH operators: 6; Private TV channel 900
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Bangalore, May 21 2022: 7-Eleven, Inc., the global convenience store chain, has launched the 7-Eleven Global Solution Center (GSC) in Bangalore.
This is the company’s first such centre outside the U.S. The centre will play a key role in 7-Eleven’s strategy by developing products that support business activities at the stores. .... |
Bangalore, May 20 2022: The Zoho group is celebrating 2 decades of its flagship enterprise product suite, ManageEngine, by announcing an additional 1000 hires this year.
Since 2002, the company has served over 2,80,000 organisations in more than 190 countries. .... |
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May 20,2022: The ability to withdraw cash from ATMs has been further enlarged. The initiative of a few big banks has now been mandated across all bank ATMs. ... |
May 19 2022: The big four professional services firms—Deloitte, KPMG International Coop (KPMG), PricewaterhouseCoopers International Ltd (PwC) and Ernst & Young Global Ltd (EY)—seem to be focusing on India for recruitment since the start of 2022. ... |
Trivandrum, May 19, 2022: Google India Country Head and Vice President Sanjay Gupta will deliver the keynote address at the inaugural session of Animation Masters Summit 2022 to begin on Monday, May 23. ... |
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May 4 2022: A STEM learning CSR workshop was conducted by the Play Learn Foundation in association with AI School of India and Robotix India | USA for the underprivileged children of Chennai Higher Secondary School. Chennai, Tamilnadu, India The 3-day workshop was held between 25th to 27th April 2022 at Alwarpet Circle Library, Chennai. .... |
Bangalore, April 22, 2022: SAP Labs India has collaborated with Indian Institute of Management Bangalore to launch an ‘AI for Managers’ programme.
The initiative aims to make the knowledge of Artificial Intelligence and its components such as Statistical Learning, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning accessible to a pool of interested managers who aspire to become competent Decision Makers. .... |
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New Delhi, May 18 2022: India’s cruise traffic is projected to grow 10 times during the next decade, according to the Union Ministry of Shipping.
Before Covid, some 200 ships visited India. The business halted for almost two years but is recovering now. .... |
Thiruvananthapuram, May 16, 2022: Oman Air has partnered with leading travel technology provider, IBS Software to fully digitalize its staff travel programme, delivering a highly configurable, self-service platform for employees to book and manage complex leisure travel, annual leave travel and duty travel policies. .... |
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April 20 2022: The catastrophic Covid-19 second wave in India last year brought the country’s healthcare sector to its knees. Hospitals throughout the country ran out of beds, oxygen, and healthcare experts. Coupled with that, there was a countrywide lockdown, and the fear of contagion and apprehension, which kept people away from hospitals. .... |
New York, April 8, 2022, L&T Group technology service company Mindtree, has made a strategic investment in COPE Health Solutions, a leading Los Angeles and New York -based U.S. healthcare consulting, implementation, and co-management leader in value-based care and payment, workforce development and data analytics, to expand its healthcare business. .... |
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Gurgaon, April 6, 2022: Pristyn Care, a Gurgaon-based healthcare unicorn, has launched a new version of its integrated app. ... | |
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April 18, 2022: If you are old enough to remember the early years of the mobile phone in India – around the turn of the century – you won’t need reminding of the iconic status of a Nokia handset. So ubiquitous was the phone and so cannily designed for Indian usage( complete with torch)that in rural India, the story went, villages went into shops and asked for a ”Nokia”—their password for handphone. .... |
Mumbai, February 17, 2022: Colorful Technology has unveiuled its second-generation COLORFUL X15 XS Gaming Laptop powered by the 12th generation Intel Core processors and GeForce RTX 30 graphics.
The gaming laptop can be configured with either a 12th generation Intel Core i5-12500H 12-core (4P+ 8E Cores), 16-thread processor or an Intel Core i7-12700H 14-core (6P+ 8E Cores), 20-thread processor – both offering excellent performance for gaming and content creation. .... |
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December 17 2021: These days, when Work From Home often means Work From Anywhere, a good web conferencing tool is a godsend. ... | |
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Bangalore, May 5, 2022: India’s technological evolution has been amongst the fastest in the world, with certain key moments defining this phenomenal growth story. It is no mean feat for a private company, especially a homegrown start-up, to be seen as one of the catalysts that have enabled the nation to earn its place amongst the most technologically advanced, globally. .... |
April 25, 2022: India-head-quartered security and telecom solutions leader, Matrix, has bagged the Time2Leap Awards for Research & Development for designing and manufacturing its Face Recognition device.
The award was given at the MSME Investor, Export & Innovation Summit, organized by Summentor Pro Sales & Marketing Consultants on April 20 2022, in New Delhi. .... |
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Bangalore, April 22 2022: US-based global distributor of technology products, services and solutions, Tech Data (a part of the TD SYNNEX group) has announced a partnership with Yugabyte, a leader in open source distributed SQL in the Asia Pacific & Japan region. ... |
April 16 2022: AT&T Inc's WarnerMedia unit and Discovery Inc have completed their merger, reports Reuters. ... |
March 26, 2022:Finance transformation is changing the way finance supports business strategy and performance. ... |
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Chennai, May 21, 2022 : Pioneer in data security and analytics --Varonis Systems Inc.-- has announced the appointment of Maheswaran Shamugasundaram as its first Country Manager for India. He will be responsible for developing Varonis' business, overseeing operations, and delivering the company's advanced data-first solutions to organizations throughout India. .... |
Bangalore, May 11, 2022: SLK Software, a global technology services provider, has announced the appointment of Ajay Kumar as its Chief Executive Officer.
SLK Software brings together analytics, intelligent automation, and AI to create leading-edge technology solutions that help companies reimagine their businesses. .... |
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Bangalore, April 26, 2022: Lenovo has announced the appointment of Amit Luthra as the new Managing Director for its Infrastructure Solutions Group (ISG) business in India. ... |
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| By saying Twitter is not living up to its potential to be a "platform for free speech," he seems to be saying he would scale back content moderation... Associated Press in Times of India April 16 2022
| | It clubs serious offences with trivial ones and lacks enough safeguards on access to sensitive data.Times of India, March 30 2022
| | It might be a smart idea to buy a dumbphone — devices that allow users to make calls or shoot off texts only — which is making a comeback... Google searches for dumbphones jumped by 89 per cent between 2018 and 2021 and global purchases hit one billion units last year, compared to worldwide sales of 1.4 billion smartphones. The Telegraph, March 27 2022
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