Tech Ecosystem
TechEagle launches eight drone hubs with healthcare partners across India
Drone logistics firm TechEagle on Monday announced the launch of eight dedicated hubs in collaboration with the country's premier healthcare institutions across eight states. The dedicated drone hubs, inaugurated virtually by Prime Minister Narendra Modi last week as part of Rs 12,850-crore multiple healthcare sector projects, will serve as critical points for rapidly deploying medical supplies, including essential medicines, vaccines, and diagnostic samples to underserved and hard-to-reach communities, TechEagle said in a statement. The eight dedicated facilities include hubs at AIIMS Guwahati, AIIMS Rishikesh, AIIMS Bilaspur, and AIIMS Bhopal, among others, it stated. With a targeted reach of over 200 locations across Assam, Uttarakhand, and Himachal Pradesh and others in the coming year, this initiative (of setting up dedicated hubs) will be a game changer for India's drone logistics landscapes, the company said. "Our drone trials with AIIMS reduced delivery times to just 20-30
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Multilateral development banks, tech on plate during Modi-Biden meeting
Both sides will also review the agreements signed during Modi's state visit to Washington, DC
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Apple's retail store to boost ecosystem experience for users: Experts
Apple sold 2 million iPhones in India in the holiday quarter (Q4) of 2022, registering 18 per cent growth (quarter-on-quarter) for its flagship device
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Balaji Srinivasan invests unknown sum in blockchain start-up Permissionless
Company to use the funds to scale the number of contributors on the platform, create more integrated productivity tools for borderless and asynchronous work
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Investcorp plans major ramp up of India assets to $5 billion: Alardhi
The Middle East firm expects to reach $5 billion of assets in India in the next five years, up from just over $600 million currently, or 1.5% of the $42.7 billion in assets managed by Investcorp
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Edtech pioneer Ronnie Screwvala to build world's largest tech school
The move comes at a time when many unicorns recently fired employees in an attempt to conserve cash and focus on profitability amid steep losses and a funding winter
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Tata, Airbus grab Rs 22,000-cr project to make C-295 aircraft in Gujarat
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) on Thursday announced it had, for the first time, entrusted a private firm - Tata Advanced Systems (TASL) - to manufacture an entire aircraft for the military
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Planet Scuba India ropes in CREST to manufacture dive equipment in India
The company will introduce CREST Diving to DRDO's DEBEL and will aim to make India an alternative to China as a manufacturer of dive equipment
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What's in-car payment?
Technology, sure, is making our lives easier. After FASTag cut short our waiting time at toll plazas, more plans are afoot for similar experiments. Let us see what they are, in this report
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Frequent run-ins with Indian govt cloud US big tech's expansion plans
India is a massive market for US tech giants, biggest for both Facebook and WhatsApp by user numbers and third for Twitter
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The 'big five' could destroy the tech ecosystem
If Amazon puts retailers out of business, who will advertise on Google and FB?
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