Page 14 - Tech Companies
Slowing spend by telcos drags IBM India earnings; FY19 net down 12%
The company's net margin stood at 8.89% in FY19, compared with 9.88% in the year-ago period
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Google, Facebook and Twitter urged to take more steps to curb fake news
EU says companies need to do more to tackle disinformation
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Not a good idea to break up biggest US tech companies, says Bill Gates
Microsoft is one of the few big U.S. technology companies not under regulatory scrutiny in Washington
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Google, Facebook, Amazon decry French digital tax as 'discriminatory'
Some 58% of Amazon's sales are through partner companies, which stand to take the hit
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42% companies struggle to find quality tech talent globally: Report
With digital transformations across domains, there is a surge in the demand for quality technology professionals, however, 42 per cent companies surveyed said it was the biggest challenge for them while sourcing top tech candidates. For the majority (42 per cent) of the companies surveyed, the first step of the hiring process, that is the sourcing of top tech candidates comprised the biggest challenge they faced while carrying out recruitment, according to 'Tech Hiring & Technology Adoption Trends 2019' report by Mercer|Mettl. "Rapid digital transformation across domains has resulted in a steep rise in the demand for quality technology professionals the world over. However, as everybody is onboarding the automation bandwagon, companies are finding it increasingly difficult to recruit and retain quality tech talent. This is mostly on account of inadequate knowledge regarding tech-driven best practices and widening demand- supply gap," Mercer|Mettl CEO Siddhartha ...
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How tech cos make us feel like we own their apps and how that benefits them
Psychological ownership can benefit the companies because it leads users to take on valuable extra roles
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We want to bridge gap between angels and $100 mn funds: Artha Venture Fund
Artha Venture Fund was originally known as Artha India Ventures
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Tax foreign tech giants operating in India, say RSS ideologues, Gandhian
The letter said tech giants such as Google, WhatsApp, YouTube, Facebook, TikTok, and Amazon generated more than Rs 30 trillion from their Indian operations
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EU lawmakers agree to take tougher stance against Google, Amazon and Apple
EU committee voted in favour of beefing up draft legislation to force online giants to set up Chinese walls between subsidiaries and to get merchants' consent before using their data
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Big tech plays safe, takes repentance tour at World Economic Forum
At the WEF in Davos this week, technology executives struck a conciliatory note in an acknowledgement of a new reality for the world's largest technology companies
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Tech giants, once seen as saviors, are now viewed as threats
Tech companies are under fire for creating problems instead of solving them
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Activism hits even the less flashy tech companies
Among these firms are IBM, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Qualcomm, Cisco, Dell and Oracle
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How tech giants are devising real ethics for artificial intelligence
Now five of the world's largest tech companies are trying to create a standard of ethics around the creation of artificial intelligence
