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The new appointment comes less than a year after the appointment of former JLR CEO Sir Ralf Speth as Chairman of TVS Motor.Mumbai: TVS Motor is learnt to have brought on board an expat for the role of CTO or equivalent, for the first time. According to sources, the two- and three-wheeler major appointed Bernhard Heiming, a German national, for the role in January. According to Heiming’s profile in the professional networking site LinkedIn, he has had stints at global vehicle OEMs like Ford, Porsche, and Jaguar Land Rover…

At Privasee, they believe that complying with data protection regulations like the GDPR shouldn’t be difficult. They’ve experienced it firsthand in their prior business and know how long and expensive the process is. Privasee makes it easy for companies to comply with GDPR and other data protection regulations by creating a model of the data you use in your company and generating policies and a cookie banner that stay up to date as regulations change. Privasee: The Guardian Helper of Companies in All Sectors of…

Redwood has raised nearly $800 million in venture funding. It’s building a billion-dollar facility in Nevada and recently announced plans for a second campus outside Charleston, South Carolina. In these plants, Redwood plans to extract valuable metals such as cobalt, lithium, and nickel from used batteries and produce cathodes and anodes for new ones.  I spoke to Straubel about the role he sees battery recycling playing in the transition to renewable energy, his plans for Redwood, and what’s next. You can read my full…

Online food delivery platform Zomato Ltd said its Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer Gunjan Patidar resigned from the post on Monday. Patidar was one of the first few employees of Zomato and built the core tech systems for the company, it said in a regulatory filing. "Over the last ten plus years, he also nurtured a stellar tech leadership team that is capable of taking on the mantle of leading the tech function going forward. His contribution to building Zomato has been invaluable," the company said. It, however,…

Alibaba Group has made several changes to its top management team, swopping out its CTO and giving its chairman and CEO Daniel Zhang an additional role as acting president of its cloud business. The shuffles amongst the top seats are an annual routine, says the Chinese tech giant. Wu Zeming is Alibaba's new CTO, taking over the position from Li Cheng who was appointed to the role in 2019. Cheng will remain in the company as a technology advisor, Alibaba said in a statement Thursday. Wu would continue as CTO of local…

AI traditionally is being looked at as a revenue generator with the added advantage of improved performance and efficiency. AI companies are coming up with out-of-the-box solutions in an attempt to overcome the usual blockades such as inadequate data and hybrid applications. Companies only get to view data in tranches for them to be able to make predictions. Peak.ai, an AI app platform creates AI-ready data, and designs visualized recommendations derived from a huge and complex set of data. An added intelligence layer…

Automotive company Ultraviolette commercially launched its first high-performance electric motorcycle, the F77, starting at an ex-showroom price of Rs 3.8 lakh.Available for customers in three forms -- Airstrike, Shadow, and Laser -- the F77 is made in India from the ground-up and the deliveries will commence in January in Bengaluru, followed by a pan-India rollout and a company-owned servicing ecosystem through 2023. the company said in a statement."The F77 proves that superior performance and uncompromising power can be…

Microsoft's virtual keyboard application SwiftKey has unexpectedly made a comeback on iOS's App Store."Based on customer feedback, SwiftKey iOS has been relisted on the Apple App Store," Microsoft's Caitlin Roulston said in a statement."Please visit Support.SwiftKey.com for more information," Roulston added.Despite the comeback, SwiftKey's latest update is still dated August 11, 2021.Read Also"Stay tuned to what the team has in store," said Vishnu Nath, Microsoft's vice president and general manager of OneNote and the…

CoinDesk: Court filing: Celsius ex-CEO Alex Mashinsky, ex-CSO Daniel Leon, and CTO Nuke Goldstein withdrew ~$56M between May and June 2022 before the lender's bankruptcy — Ex-CEO Alex Mashinsky, ex-CSO Daniel Leon and CTO Nuke Goldstein pulled bitcoin, ether, USDC and CEL holdings from their custody accounts in May … CoinDesk: Court filing: Celsius ex-CEO Alex Mashinsky, ex-CSO Daniel Leon, and CTO Nuke Goldstein withdrew ~$56M between May and June 2022 before the lender's bankruptcy …

A computer system "starts with a limited set of components and limited optionality so that you have manageable parameters to get to a system outcome," says Dell Technologies CTO, products and operations, John Roese. "As the system becomes stable, and the system gets utilized, what occurs is diversification of the creative element of what we use it for — people figure out what to do with them which nobody contemplated when we first built the system." That diversification, contends Roese, naturally drives all computing…