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Automation Anywhere raises $200 mn from Silicon Valley Bank, others

The firm's cloud customers have run an estimated 50 million automations in 2022, with leading firms deploying thousands of bots across their organisations

Bengaluru rains: How bad infra took Indian Silicon Valley under the weather

The flood on August 30, which brought parts of Bengaluru to its knees, led to a loss of about Rs 225 crore in a single day

The young kings of Silicon Valley are dismounting their unicorns

They rode unicorns to fame and fortune. In a rocky market, it got a little less fun

Fintech platform Robinhood fires 713 employees, CEO says 'it's on me'

Silicon Valley-based online trading app Robinhood has sacked 23% of its workforce, just three months after the fintech platform reduced its headcount by 9 per cent amid the global economic turmoil.

Elon Musk says new Tesla plants are 'money furnaces' losing billions

"Both Berlin and Austin factories are gigantic money furnaces right now," the chief executive officer said in a video interview with Tesla Owners of Silicon Valley posted online Wednesday

Sequoia India grapples with fallout from several governance issues

The Silicon Valley firm has invested $5.5 billion in India and, since 2017

Google hit with UK probe into suspected competition breaches: Report

The Competition and Markets Authority will probe suspected breaches of competition law in Google's rules over in-app payments in its mobile store in the UK

Sheryl Sandberg's advertising empire leaves a complicated legacy

Sandberg was one of the people who made Google's ad business so enormous that it became an essential part of every advertiser's budget

Our competition is with the Silicon Valley: Karnataka CM Basavaraj Bommai

Silicon Valley in the US continues its reign as the world's pre-eminent startup ecosystem, according to experts

Be part of India's growth story: Nirmala Sitharaman at Silicon Valley

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman at the Silicon Valley invited investors to be part of the country's growth story

Top Headlines: Omicron sub-variant akin to Delta, EVs could cut forex outgo

Business Standard brings you the top headlines at this hour

Google tells employees to return to offices in US from April 4

Google said it expects most workers to come to the office three days a week and have two days of remote work

Meta, Google face data doomsday as key European Union decision looms

Irish watchdog to rule on data transfer contract terms

Twitter CEO's paternity leave sparks question of how much is enough

In a sign of how quickly norms are evolving at US companies, the big question sparked by Parag Agrawal's announcement was why he wasn't using more of the 20 weeks that Twitter offers

Zoom update on Mac fixes bug that keeps microphone on after meetings

If you are a Mac user and your microphone stays active even after your meetings on Zoom, then here's how you can fix it.According to The Verge, Zoom has acknowledged a bug that appears to cause the microphone on Macs running macOS Monterey to stay on even after leaving a meeting; and the version 5.9.3 update on the app can only fix this.Users have been complaining about the issue since December, as documented in a post on Zoom's community forum.As per The Verge, several users noticed that the orange recording indicator light in the Control Center appears when Zoom isn't being used -- the indicator light is a privacy feature introduced in Monterey that warns a user when an application is using your microphone.This obviously raised some privacy concerns, given Zoom had serious privacy vulnerability on Macs in the past. In 2020, the company was accused of misleading users about offering end-to-end encryption when it really didn't at the time.A Zoom representative later commented on the ..

Google to shut down 'Currents' in 2023, users to be moved to 'Spaces'

Currents was to enable people have meaningful discussions and interactions across organisation, helping keep everyone in the know and allowing leaders to connect with their employees

Silicon Valley's fallen superstar faces 20 years behind bars

Jurors found Holmes guilty of four counts of tricking investors into pouring money into what she claimed was a revolutionary testing system

What will Silicon Valley learn from Holmes' conviction?

Holmes was found guilty on Monday of duping investors into believing that Theranos had developed a revolutionary medical device

Talent war: Apple gives out rare $180-K bonuses to ward off defections

Apple is waging a talent war with companies in Silicon Valley and beyond, with Meta emerging as a particular threat

A grand tax loophole for the ultrawealthy is very easily multiplied

Once aimed at small businesses, it's a popular way for Silicon Valley founders and investors to avoid taxes on investment profits