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Google Maps to allow direct booking of Metro tickets in Kochi, Chennai

Much-awaited 'flyover-callout' feature set to be rolled out in 40 cities

How basic customs duty cut on mobile phones will affect cost benefits

Smartphones like Google Pixel and some iPhone Pro models are likely to get some benefit out of the rationalisation

Budget 2024: MeitY's budget outlay jumps 52% to Rs 21,936 crore for FY25

MeitY runs multiple incentive schemes and programmes in areas such as semiconductor manufacturing and design, electronics manufacturing, and the India AI Mission, among others

Budget 2024: FM cuts basic customs duty on mobile phones, chargers to 15%

Reduction in BCD on these items was a major demand from the electronics manufacturing bodies

US will be bigger growth engine than Europe for Persistent System, says CEO

Kalra is confident that North America will continue to be a growth engine for the company going forward

Indian GCCs employed more than 16 lakh people in FY23: Economic Survey

The software, internet, and banking, financial services, and insurance (BFSI) sectors collectively accounted for about 58 per cent of India's IT GCC talent, according to the document

Microsoft global tech outage: When all systems in the world go down

The tech outage marks the risk of depending on a single firm's software, report Shivani Shinde & Ashutosh Mishra

Microsoft outage: Govt in touch with authorities, says Ashwini Vaishnaw

The worldwide Microsoft outage caused widespread disruptions in sectors ranging from flight operations and the stock market to media outlets and banking operations

IT ministry asks tech firms to find age verification methods under data law

They have to 'figure out' how they want to implement age-gating requirement, says source

Online enrollment in AI courses sees a 50% growth on a YoY basis: Report

The report also highlighted that freshers skilled in AI, ML, and cybersecurity currently bag the highest salaries in India

India's first pvt deeptech hub launches in NCR, aiming to mobilise $100 mn

Collectively, the hub targets to mobilise $100 million in the Indian deeptech ecosystem

L&T Technology Q1FY25 results: Net profit up marginally at Rs 313.6 crore

The EBIT margin of the company stood at 15.6 per cent, falling 130 basis points (bps) sequentially and 1.6 per cent YoY

AI solutions firm Tredence to expand India operations, to hire more staff

Plans to increase its workforce in India by 60 per cent by mid-2025

Zensar acquires BridgeView to expand into biopharma, life sciences industry

The acquisition is expected to be completed tentatively within 2-3 weeks

Indian AI tackles non-Eng language data scarcity with 'transfer learning'

Transfer learning enables a model trained on one task, like an English dataset, to be fine-tuned on new tasks or languages with less data, leveraging its pre-existing knowledge efficiently

Nearly 20,000 employees to be trained in GenAI every quarter: HCLTech

Last quarter, we reported the investments we are making in upskilling our people for GenAI skills. If you recall, last year we trained and certified about 42,000 employees

Nearly 80% of gig workers meet Indian job market requirements: Report

Around 76% of employers identified technical skills as the most essential for gig workers

Expect strong growth from Q2, says HCLTech CEO & MD C Vijayakumar

Will continue to grow in the US, says C Vijayakumar

HCLTech Q1FY25 results: Net profit rises 20.4% to Rs 4,257 crore

Revenue for the first quarter grew 6.7 % to hit Rs 28,057 crore

Karnataka government to come up with a state data exchange framework

The government is also working on revising the existing state data policy in line with the DPDP Act