IT news
TikTok prefers Oracle over Microsoft for a deal in US
14 Sep 2020
With President Trump’s 20 September deadline for a sale of TikTok’s US business and China erecting new regulatory hurdles, the situation looks very complicated for a deal to go through
China invokes new rules to block sale of TikTok
04 Sep 2020
The Chinese government last week added several artificial intelligence features to a list of export-restricted technologies, effectively gaining the right to block a deal by TikTok
Prime Minister Modi’s Twitter account hacked
04 Sep 2020
Prime Minister Modi’s Twitter account hacked
04 Sep 2020
Swine flu fear grips B’lore as 2 SAP employees test H1N1 positive
21 Feb 2020
SAP, which has its office in one of the city’s largest tech parks, RMZ Ecoworld on the Outer Ring Road (ORR), announced temporary closure of its offices in Bengaluru, Gurgaon and Mumbai, and said it is tracing the contacts the infected colleagues may have come across
Google to end its free Wi-Fi programme
18 Feb 2020
Microsoft opens engineering hub in NCR, its third in India
18 Feb 2020
IDC-NCR will house Microsoft’s engineering teams across technology groups, including Artificial Intelligence and Research, Cloud and Enterprise, and Experience and Devices, along with Core Services Engineering and Operations as also the Mixer, the live streaming gaming platform team, becoming the first such center outside Redmond, the company headquarters
Amazon wins stay on $10 bn US military contract for Microsoft
14 Feb 2020
Amazon has alleged vendetta by President Donald Trump to shut it out of the contact and has sought testimony from the President and other top officials on the reasons for awarding the cloud computing contract to Microsoft
Alphabet reports $10.7 bn 2019 net income on revenues of $46.1 bn
04 Feb 2020
Alphabet’s investments in deep computer science, including artificial intelligence, ambient computing and cloud computing, provide a strong base for continued growth and new opportunities, says CEO Sundar Pichai
Arvind Krishna to replace Ginni Rometty as IBM CEO in April
31 Jan 2020
Current CEO Ginni Rometty will become chairman of the board at IBM while Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst will be president
Wipro CEO and MD Abidali Z Neemuchwala steps down
31 Jan 2020
Neemuchwala, who has been with Wipro since April 2015, will relinquish his responsibilities only after a successor is appointed in order to ensure a smooth transition