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Should Phonepe be worth more than Paytm’s $7.9B?

The Walmart-backed company commands nearly half of India’s digital-payments landscape. But its financials trail its smaller, listed rival

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How EY became rivals’ feeding ground for tech consultants

The Big Four is ramping up tech consulting. It’s the perfect window for frustrated veteran partners to walk out of EY India

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Yellow.ai had $100M, clients, and momentum. Then came ChatGPT, Big Tech

Microsoft, Google, Amazon—everyone has a chatbot of their own. Why would anyone care for Yellow.ai’s solution then?

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Buy the dip, ignore the Donald: why Indian fund managers still want US stocks

But the best investing route is still shut for the retail investor

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Microsoft targets Nvidia’s AI-chip empire with an army of Indian engineers

Nvidia’s dominance in the AI market is forcing Big Techs like Microsoft to produce chips of their own. So, the software giant is changing its tack in hiring from Indian colleges

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Water is the new air: the race to cool India’s data centres with pricey new tech

Three foreign firms—Vertiv, Schneider Electric, and Stulz—are set to capture a slice of India’s Rs 10,000 crore data-centre boom as liquid cooling becomes essential to handle AI’s power surge

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This $800M Indian SaaS firm is winning over Microsoft and Cisco against global rival Walkme

Digital-adoption platforms are set for exponential growth soon and Whatfix is doing whatever it can to outdo its rivals

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Hackers’ shadow looms over Big Tech’s investments in Indonesia

Even as the archipelago assesses damages caused by hackers on its systems, the government has an immediate problem to deal with: strengthen cybersecurity to not shoo away Big Tech

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Small-caps in Malaysia soar on Microsoft, Nvidia, Google’s AI bets. Too soon?

Analysts sound caution at the small-cap rally as Big Tech investments are in the early stages and infrastructure is still budding

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Southeast Asian companies devour AI investments, thanks to the US-China tiff. Is there a limit?

American and Chinese tech giants, such as Microsoft and Alibaba, are competing in Southeast Asia, where local service providers are using AI to attract young, tech-savvy users

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ANSR’s Ahuja duo on why “everybody, from Victoria’s Secret to Google, will do pretty much the same thing in India”

As technology upends every business, the idea of a ‘second headquarters’ is gaining steam. The more traditional the business, the more the need to set up capability centres in India

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An Indian GenAI startup raised $41M. Now, everyone wants to build LLMs

GenAI startups building large language models saw investments pour in over the past year, with six-month-old Sarvam securing support from an early OpenAI backer. But what’s the endgame?

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Engineering grads haven’t struggled this hard for a job in a decade

The class of 2024’s motto from their job placement teams: one student, one job; internships over placements; and, more importantly, compromise

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How Microsoft India chief’s quest to rev up revenues drove discontent among employees

Anant Maheshwari, who recently resigned from Microsoft India, is described as a tough taskmaster under whom revenue grew over twofold in two years. However, his style of leadership has upset some factions in the company

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What do a fighter jet, an animation film, and an iPod rival have in common?

Trying to hitch a ride on a waning narrative can be a hazardous venture

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The ChatGPT effect: Microsoft gaining momentum in cloud race against Amazon and Google

The Tata Group and the AV Birla Group are already trying to streamline operations with the Microsoft-backed AI tool. As a result, the cloud businesses of Amazon and Google are at risk of losing ground to the Redmond, US-headquartered company

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AWS, Microsoft may take the wind out of data-centre firms’ sails with in-house capacity

With the biggest buyers in the town building their own facilities, domestic data-centre operators have to race against time to find new clients

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Why Google is helping an Indian state roll out a ~$300M healthcare project

The Tamil Nadu government wants to deliver health services right at the citizens’ doorsteps, while the tech giant wants to tap into its health data

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Zoom third in line for telecom licence, aims to crack $100M revenue in India

If Cisco and RingCentral can come, Zoom may not be far behind. But the communications tech company’s entry into the sector has left Jio, Airtel, and Vi wondering

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With eye on IPO, Jio Platforms begins to stoke its non-telco fires

The hit retail telecom business can’t do much for Jio Platforms’ success or valuation. With two data centres ready to launch, a 10-year Microsoft partnership is kicking in gear as Reliance begins to assemble the pieces of its crown jewel US$65B Jio Platforms

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Slack pays the ‘India price’ to keep local ambitions alive

Slack has continued to maintain steep discounts of over 60% for their India offerings, despite increasing prices worldwide for the first time in its history. But pricing alone will not be enough to win the market

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Why LinkedIn is joining Instagram and Co in wooing India’s creators

As the pandemic changed the nature of work, professional networking platform LinkedIn had to change itself, too. Like its other social media peers, it’s now doubling down on India’s Rs 900 crore (US$113 million) creator economy and striving for a new identity

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India’s 3-month reprieve from another regulatory curveball: card tokenisation

If India’s card tokenisation rules had kicked in on 1 July as planned, it would have upset online commerce for millions of India's merchants. The banking regulator’s third extension has taken the deadline to September, but three months may not be enough for stakeholders to get it together

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From Hotmail.com to Ally.io: how startup acquisitions have evolved in two decades

Two companies, same price tag—US$500 million, acquired by the same company—Microsoft. And yet, while Hotmail’s was a much-talked-about acquisition, Ally.io’s flew under the radar. Microsoft has changed in the intervening 20 years, but so has the future of work as we know it

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From SBI to Salesforce: Arundhati Bhattacharya’s unlikely SaaS voyage

Arundhati Bhattacharya spearheaded the digital transformation for India’s largest public sector bank, SBI. She’s now trying to pull off an audacious US$1 billion revenue dream for Salesforce India

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AWS, Google, and the drawbacks of India’s data centre deluge

US$9.7 billion is set to flow into India's data centre sector, as the lure of high valuations and rising demand for cloud services proves hard to ignore. After the gold rush, though, a mass extinction looms

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2020: The year big tech allied with telcos but also put them on notice

Big tech has big tie-ups with Indian telcos but other countries are trying to fend them off. As regulated telecom gets into bed with soon-to-be-regulated tech, profound changes are around the corner.

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Jio Platforms: Jack of all trades and master of India’s digital economy

There’s a reason Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and a host of PE investors lined up to invest billions in Jio Platforms. With a finger in every online pie, the company and its digital ecosystem could change India’s online space forever

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The Covid wedge for Alibaba, ByteDance’s productivity tools in Southeast Asia

The Chinese tech giants want to unseat Microsoft, Slack and Google with localised business productivity tools made available for free in Southeast Asia

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The Indian spice in GitHub’s recipe for enterprise success

GitHub’s DNA is open source. Its Indian expansion, though, indicates that—just like its parent Microsoft—its future will hinge on its enterprise business

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Google, Microsoft circle as India mulls extracting value from health data of 1.3 billion citizens

Big tech makes a beeline for health data at hospitals. With the Personal Data Protection policy in the works, India must define the rights and permissions of owners and data co-creators. Mustn’t it also look for its pound of, err, flesh and ask for open-sourcing data?

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Cloudy with a chance of data centres

India’s data centre market is set to explode as large conglomerates like Adani, realtors like Hiranandani and telco majors like Jio look to service Big Tech’s data storage needs. For now, they don’t mind the 60 govt permissions necessary or the lack of a data protection policy

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Go-Jek and Grab are turning Southeast Asia’s startup ecosystem tribal

If you thought Uber’s exit from SE Asia marked the end of the region’s ride-hailing battle, think again. Post-Uber, Grab and Go-Jek are locked in a battle that has parallels with the way Tencent and Alibaba dominate China’s tech scene

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India is testing LinkedIn’s talent

Only the US accounts for more of LinkedIn’s users than India. Despite this, the world’s largest professional social network can’t seem to get its India pitch right

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Why the Human Eye is the Window to AI in Healthcare

The orange orb that lies at the back of your eye is the frontier for AI to rewrite healthcare

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Ayushman Bharat: An alphabet soup short on ingredients

Executing the world’s largest public health scheme is harder than the government had imagined. Since then, it has pushed the distress button and every healthcare company has swooped in to save it, but Practo may play the ultimate knight in shining armour

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Algorithm dynamics: Asking Google, Facebook and others to be ‘fair’

What do you learn when learning about Machine Learning? That in personalising services, massive networks like Google, Facebook are promoting extremism and inequality. Two computer scientists have built an antidote in the hope that people will become aware and eventually demand fair personalisation

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You can bring bullet trains from Japan, but not Artificial Intelligence

Two ministries want to ride the AI wave. Do we know how much data are we individually fuelling into it? Algorithms read, use, and most alarmingly, assess our levels of stupidity (and vulnerability). Especially on apps like WhatsApp

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Ankhi Das: Facebook’s most powerful official in India

Facebook’s most prominent person in India is not its managing director but it's its director of public policy

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