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Accenture's investment in Cloud-based technology pays off, say analysts

Accenture has, over the last year, doubled down on its digital services by aggressively investing in cloud-based technology, which has paid off for the company

Accenture raises annual forecast, posts strong growth on record orders

Company announces one-time bonus, equal to one week of base pay, for employees below managing director

WhatsApp to introduce audio, video calling on desktop app for users

In order to make a WhatsApp desktop call, you need to have a Windows 10 64-bit version 1903 and newer or macOS 10.13 and newer

Paytm Money targets over 10 mn users, 75 mn yearly transactions in FY22

Young investors are the target audience for most of the new-age start-ups offering MF and other investments.

India had highest number of Internet shutdowns at 109 in 2020: report

This is the third consecutive year India has topped the global charts on this score, a new report by digital rights and privacy organisation Access Now has found

TCS, Infosys, Accenture to cover Covid vaccine cost for eligible employees

Third phase of vaccinations for Covid-19 starting March 1 includes eligible citizens above 60 years of age and those between 45 and 59 years with specified co-morbidities

Karnataka govt, Nasscom launch ER&D policy to foster innovation in state

50% rent reimbursement, recruitment assistance and investmengt subsidy on anvil for MNCs looking to establish new R&D facilities or expand existing ones

Free for viewers, streaming service Jungo+ launches for select Indian users

Unlike other services, it isn't targeting mass audience, will cater to those with interests in areas it calls passion and ethnocentric like K-Pop, health and wellness, e-sports and mixed martial arts

Cowin registration uses Made-in-India mapping from MapmyIndia

To make the critical vaccination effort seamless, MapmyIndia has put all the vaccination centres across India on MapmyIndia's maps

Paytm crosses 1.2 bn monthly transactions, maintains leadership position

Financial services firm sees 15% month-on-month growth in offline merchant payments

Plainspeak in a post-truth world: Meet Twitter general counsel Vijaya Gadde

What sets Twitter apart from other social media and big technology firms at present is that the platform has not shied away from taking politically sensitive decisions and sticking by them

Draft norms for influencer advertising: What ASCI wants from social media

Broadly, the ASCI has proposed rules for social media influencers who promote or run paid content without adequate disclosures

Govt notifies 5-mn-user threshold for significant social media intermediary

Facebook and Twitter said they are studying the rules; Experts question compliance with PDP Bill

FB, Google, Twitter must remove content within 36 hours of govt order

Content depicting nudity or morphed pictures of women need to be removed within 24 hours; rules to embrace OTT players like Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hotstar

OTT players apprehensive as Govt tightens rules on curated content

Legal experts say notifying rules for OTTs under IT Act may not be tenable; industry players seek clarity on oversight mechanism

Edtech, logistics and gig-economy to drive jobs as startups step up hiring

Freshers hiring likely to double as compared to last year

Govt to announce social media guidelines for Facebook, Twitter and others

Apart from a grievance officer whose details should be prominently displayed on the platform, rules also ask for appointment of a Chief Compliance Officer responsible for ensuring adherence to the Act

Centre announces Rs 15,000 crore PLI for pharma, IT hardware sectors

Pharma scheme aims at Rs 3 trillion incremental sales, 100,000 jobs; experts say hardware scheme to help India become electronics manufacturing hub for the world

Web Werks raises $150 mn from Iron Mountain to fuel India expansion

Iron Mountain will be majority stakeholder in the venture, deal will allow Web Werks to speed up expansion across Indian cities and build capacity

Vishwanathan Anand to mentor at Tech Mahindra's phygital Chess League

Global Chess League is an extension of the various partnerships its has with different sports- from FIFA to Indian Premier League's Kings XI Punjab