While big tech rivals routinely strike multi-billion dollar deals, Apple has refined the "acquihire," or strategic purchase of a small company for its staff.
Twitter will struggle to replicate a bumper 2020 dominated by the US political battles, civil unrest and the COVID-19 crisis as people venture out following vaccine rollouts, Wall Street analysts said.
Europe's second-highest court will rule on May 12 on Amazon's appeal of an EU order to pay about EUR 250 million (roughly Rs. 2,230 crores) in back taxes to Luxembourg.
Over the past several months, we have brought to you stories about the massive movement of companies to the public cloud following the pandemic. When vast numbers of employees and customers needed to suddenly be serviced remotely, the public cloud seemed to be the way to go, given its scalability and agility.
In quantum computing, the hardware steals the thunder because it is super cool physics. But the software developer community has also quietly made significant strides in building impressive stacks of open source quantum software.
At an age when children would shudder at the sight of blood, 10-year-old Gauri Puri would remain calm. When her friend fell and hurt his leg badly, Gauri promptly cleaned his wound and stopped the bleeding before taking him back to school.
The Indian IT services business has required employees to travel overseas, and even live there for extended periods – to understand client requirements, and to implement projects. Now, India is also building products for the world’s consumers. The Mercedes-Benz R&D centre in India creates features for its cars that are used by its buyers globally. The Walmart centre here builds platforms that are improving the buying experience for US and Mexican consumers. Goldman Sachs’s facility here has played a central role in building its new consumer digital bank Marcus.
We had two young, utterly fascinating entrepreneurs – Dhruv Agrawal and Anupama Engineer – on our webinar last week. Both are building deep tech ventures in healthcare. We would urge you to listen to the webinar on the Times Techies Facebook page if you want to be a deep tech entrepreneur.
The age of the traditional car is over. The car is getting digital, connected, and intelligent. And Robert Bosch's India engineers – about 20,000 of them – are playing a central role in developing this rolling smart device for the world.
As an eighth-grader, Sibanjan Das repaired a computer in the electrical department in Baripada, Odisha, and was given Rs 50 in appreciation. “I remember going there in my school uniform. But once I was home, my father rode me back on his scooter and told me to return the money. I got a good scolding for accepting it in the first place,” laughs Sibanjan.
Covid-19 pandemic has hit us all very hard. It has become important more than ever to take necessary precautions in order to ensure the safety of our families. While taking care of physical health, one also needs to be financially sound. ICICI Bank has shared a checklist that can help one stay safe and secure during the pandemic.