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Cityscape-transforming data centres and an enviable technology spine being built to undergird the rapid expansion of India’s digital economy present robust growth opportunities for Cisco Systems, which specializes in both networking and security solutions.Daisy Chittilapilly, India and SAARC president, Cisco told ET that as companies seek to monetize investments made in the 5G telecom infrastructure and harness the insatiable appetite for data to drive India’s announced ascent to the top three of the global economic…

Spring is traditionally the season for a good clean – and maybe a clear out. Taking stock and having a bit of a declutter can freshen things up domestically.One popular new way of doing this involves targeting your wardrobe by making digital inventories of your clothes – and then tracking what you wear. You note the price, brand and category of your garments (and shoes and bags) and then record how much use they get. The idea is that having this information can then lead to better choices in the future, whether that’s…

The history of modern of technology begins in the West. Modern computers, computer networks and the most influential of companies, principles and laws governing these domains were spawned mostly on either side of the Atlantic Ocean, if not almost entirely in northern America. Over time, the West largely came to adopt one of two approaches on how it governed technology and use technologies in its governance. On one hand is the American model where private companies have almost entirely charted the ways, in tune with the…

Indian-origin CEO of Google and parent company Alphabet, Sundar Pichai, on Friday met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Washington, after which the executive announced that his organisation would be investing $10 billion in India's digitisation fund. Prime Minister Modi was on a three-day state visit to the United States, where he has been meeting the chief executives of major global players including Micron and Applied Materials, both of whom have committed to investing in India. "It was an honour to meet PM Modi during…

Happiest Minds Technologies Limited, an IT Company, has announced its strategic global partnership with Pimcore, an Open-Source digital platform. This new partnership is expected to aggregate, enrich and manage enterprise data and provide up-to-date, consistent, and personalised experiences to customers. Importance of this partnershipHappiest Minds’ collaboration with Pimcore claims to provide customers with a seamlessly integrated platform, and a centralised solution for PIM, MDM, DAM, CDP, DXP/CMS, and digital commerce.…

Google Cloud has formed a strategic alliance with the Kuwaiti government to support digitisation efforts across the country's public sector, the company said. Most Gulf states are investing significantly in digital technologies across the government sector to improve efficiency and make public services easier to access online, and as a way to diversify oil-dependent economies. Google Cloud did not provide a value for the agreement with the Kuwaiti government, but said it would encompass digitising government services,…

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Applauding India's digitisation efforts, the chief economist of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Wednesday said the move was a game changer as it had allowed the Indian government to do things that would have been extremely difficult otherwise."Digitisation is helping along a number of dimensions. One is financial inclusion, obviously because there are a lot of people in countries like India that were unbanked. And having access to digital wallets is a way in which they can enter into transactions that are not…

In order to enable India to become a trillion-dollar digital economy by 2025, it is imperative for the country to accelerate the pace of digitalisation with focus on innovation and engineering across semiconductor product design, including hardware and software, Union Minister of State for IT and Skill Development Rajeev Chandrasekhar said.After inaugurating Intel India's state-of-the-art design and engineering centre here, he said that Intel's critical contributions and relentless quest to advance innovation in design…