Larsen & Toubro Infotech said it will establish a Center of Excellence in partnership with Coupa, a cloud-based spend management and procurement software platform. The center will develop spend management solutions to help companies control and regulate all forms of expenditure and streamline the procurement process, the company said. “This partnership will add to the […]
New waves of Cyber attacks called Operation Ghoul that started on the 8th and the 27th of June 2016 threatens the Middle East region, Kaspersky Lab said. “The attackers try to lure targets through spear phishing emails that include compressed executables. In the majority of cases, CEOs, COOs, managers, supervisors and engineers recieve the email […]
Wipro has launched a cloud-based file transfer service for enterprises. Wipro’s Managed File Transfer as a Service (MFTaaS) platform utilizes Microsoft’s cloud platform Azure. File transfer software is used by companies to move large chunks of data from one location to another in a secure manner. Typical communication applications, such as email and messenger, do […]
Infosys Ltd said its banking software Finacle has been named the leader among nine top banking platforms in ‘The Forrester WaveTM: Customer-Centric Global Banking Platforms, Q3 2016’. The ranking was done on the basis of 40 criteria focusing on strategy, current offering and market presence. They scored 4.35 out of 5 and are the only […]
Canada-based software company SOTI said it will invest $12 mln and add 300 jobs in India over the next two years. The majority of the new positions would be in engineering and software development roles, it said. SOTI is a provider of enterprise mobility management and Bring Your Own Device solutions. The company, which has most […]
Tata group’s multi-brand phygital ecommerce platform, Tata CLiQ announced a seven-day independence sales, offering items such as LED TVs and smartphones for as little as Rs 70. Consumers will get 70 great deals spread over a period of 7 days for everyone with special offers on electronics from 8th to 10th August and handsome discounts […]
Hexaware Technologies said it will offer automation software and services along with US-based WorkFusion under a partnership. The offering will help clients increase productivity, reduce the time required to design new products and cuts operational costs, Hexaware said. The offering will be part of Hexaware’s Digital Managed Services portfolio and will help companies digitize complex […]
Government of India stepped into a new era of procurement today with the inauguration of its e-Marketplace. It will now be possible for government officials to buy common use items in 26 categories like computers, office equipment, stationery, via the portal. Apart from goods, the system also allows for requisitioning services, such as engaging a […]
Amazon has brought ‘premium membership’ program Prime to India at an inaugural price of Rs 499 per year. It is also offering a two-month free trial period. While the main selling point of the program is cheaper and faster shipping, it also comes with a unique advantage in India — if you are a Prime […]
Rolta India Ltd said it was unable to pay bank dues and interest on some of its bonds due to a liquidity constaint caused by delays in collecting dues as well as large investment into a “prestigious project”. Replying to a query from the BSE, the company said it has already put out an update […]
Intel’s upcoming Apollo Lake low-end tablet and PC processor could trail ARM-based chips by a big margin if a benchmarking result from a product using similar technology is any indication. Goldmont, the core inside Apollo Lake is to be the first major update to Intel’s Silvermont architecture and was supposed to take on ARM chips. When first […]
If you’re a regular user of Google Maps for navigation, you might want to update the app quickly before you head out. The latest version of Google News includes spoken warnings about traffic conditions, Google said. Till now, Google used to color code traffic conditions, with red indicating severe congestion and slow moving traffic. “Now […]
Google has launched the YouTube Gaming mobile app on Android and iOS in India. YouTube Gaming is an app that seeks to keep gamers connected to the games, players, and culture with videos, live streams, and the community. Globally, video games are quite a spectator sport unlike in India where they are mostly a living room […]
Flipkart today announced the acquisition of PhonePe, a Bangalore based mobile payments company. Co-founded by ex-Flipkart employees Sameer Nigam and Rahul Chari, PhonePe is building India’s first Unified Payments Interface (UPI) based product. UPI, planned to go live in the April, will allow users to transact using their unique identification and mobile phone number or […]
Persistent Systems, a product and outsourcing company, said it is reorganizing its business structure in four divisions. These divisions are ‘digital’, IBM, Services and Accelerite. It will also set up a new Corporate Operations office whose job will be to accelerate the four growth units. It will be headed by Atul Khadilkar. “Unique to Persistent, the […]
Piramal Enterprises Ltd said it acquired the assets of pharmacy software maker Adaptive Software, LLC and entire control and ownership of its wholly owned subsidiary, AdaptiveRx LLC for $7.4 million. Adaptive is eligible to receive up to an additional $11.1 million if and when it meets certain post-closing requirements, which must be satisfied within six […]
Tata Consultancy Services launched a solution to enable Voice over LTE services for virtualized networks. Virtualilized networks refer to software-defined networks that lives on top of a large number actual or hardware networks. Many telecom operators are moving to virtualized networks and away from ‘bare metal’ networks to increase resilience and flexibility of the networks. […]
HCL Technologies announced the signing of a significant IT outsourcing deal with the Volvo Group, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of commercial vehicles and the customers of its external IT business. HCL also acquired Volvo’s external IT business, adding 40 new customers from the Nordics and France to its portfolio, further enhancing its market […]
The majority of Indian IT and financial sector workers are unhappy with their salary, a new survey by Monster.com said. It also found that Indian-owned companies typically pay much lower salaries than MNCs. The IT sector turned out to be the highest paying industry in India, even ahead of the financial services industry, which is […]
Wipro, one of India’s top IT outsourcing companies, said it has won an IT infrastructure “transformation contract” from the ASSA ABLOY Group, one of the world’s biggest door-opening solutions provider. As part of the five-year agreement, Wipro will consolidate ASSA ABLOY’s existing data centers in the EMEA region and implement a cloud-based service model, which […]
