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Elon Musk's 'Twitter Files' implicates Indian-origin lawyer Vijaya Gadde

The 'Twitter Files revealed by Elon Musk has implicated Vijaya Gadde, the Indian-origin former head of legal, policy and trust at the company

Meta pledges $1 mn for extended reality fellowship programme in India

Initiative will help developers contribute to open-source projects on XR technology and lay the foundation for affordable, appropriate India-specific solutions localised to Indic languages

HCLTech signs multi-year contract with Swiss MRO firm SR Technics

HCLTech's role is to digitally transform the Swiss company's business, will implement a new greenfield SAP S/4HANA environment hosted on Microsoft Azure using RISE with SAP

Smart pickup in good jobs

The estimated 0.7 million additional jobs created by listed companies may easily more than offset the recent layoffs seen in tech companies

Amazon to shut down distribution unit in India, focus on core businesses

The move is a part of the e-commerce firm's strategy to focus on its core business and close-fledging units it has launched such as edtech and food delivery, sources say

We're hiring, says Elon Musk; Twitter 2.0 to have payments feature

His "Twitter 2.0 The Everything App" will have features like encrypted direct messages (DMs), longform tweets and payments, according to the tweet

Twitter will launch gold, grey checks besides blue tick: Elon Musk

Twitter's account verification program is finally set to launch next week

To 'make Amazon pay', Indian trade unions join Black Friday protest

Agitation part of global campaign against e-commerce firm

Amazon's Black Friday: Several Indian trade unions to join protests

The campaign is being coordinated by an international coalition of trade unions, with the support of environmental and civil society groups

HireQuotient bags investment from Flipkart co-founder Binny Bansal

This comes after the company raised $1.8 million in pre-series A funding last year from Sumant Sinha of ReNew Power, Mohan Lakhamraju of Great Learning, Sujeet Kumar of Udaan; and Kunal Shah of CRED

China proposes tough penalties for unfair practices adopted by tech firms

The move is another regulatory response to big tech companies' use of market dominance and advanced technology to undermine competition

HP Inc to reduce global headcount by up to 6,000 employees as demand slows

PC and printer major HP Inc is joining the ongoing tech layoff season and will lay off nearly 4,000-6,000 employees

Falling rupee, rising costs, job insecurity dampen study-abroad sentiment

Mass layoffs by tech biggies add to concern, but demand from non-metros robust

IITs likely to see less placement offers this year amid tech slump: Report

The impact on IITs is likely to be less severe than in other engineering colleges as the companies will continue to hire good talent and 'maintain a relationship with these premier tech colleges'

Job switches to fetch smaller salary hikes to tech talent, says report

The average salary hike on new jobs has fallen from 54 per cent in July and August to 45 per cent in September and 37 per cent in October

Twitter adds 1.6 million daily active users in 1 week, says Elon Musk

Shutting down his detractors further, Musk shared another tweet today morning, announcing that the site has reached its highest daily active users

Done with layoffs, Elon Musk says he wants to go on hiring spree

Plans engineering teams in India, japan Indonesia, and Brazil

In layoff season, Google may fire 10,000 'low performing' employees

The news on layoff at Google has come within days of a letter that hedge fund TCI, an investor in the company, wrote to Alphabet. TCI has shares worth $6 billion in Alphabet

Draft personal data protection Bill: Penalties may range up to Rs 250 crore

Updated legislation allows data to be transferred to 'trusted geographies' listed by the government

Moonlighting: People continue to seek side gigs amid demand for tech skills

Job search and gig work platforms say these are mostly low-paid assignments