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IT spend to touch $94 billion in 2020 on wings of software

BENGALURU: In a forecast, the IT researcher Gartner on Monday said overall IT spending in India would grow 6.6% to reach $94 billion in 2020, from $88.5 billion in 2019. This growth would primarily be driven by spending in software. India’s domestic technology services market, however, is expected to delay in

Social network Mastodon is trending in India; should Twitter worry?

  “I hear Mastodon is becoming popular in India now, that’s great news. Welcome everyone,” is the first post that greets your eye as you sign into Mastodon Social. This is the post of @Gargon aka Eugen Rochko, the 26-year-old German-born coder who founded the Internet mammal

Learn these 6 technical skills for a career in software development — and its more than just programming languages

Companies are trying to stay competitive in the job market, investing in future technologies. This has lifted the demand for software engineers. Globally, software development is one of the highest paying tech jobs. With more and more Indians planning career overseas, the demand has surged over the

How social media makes or breaks a company in crisis

A contributing factor of customer loyalty involves how a company responds to crisis situations, a Crisp report found. With the proliferation of social media, news of a crisis can spread quickly, impacting consumer perceptions and company reputations. Companies must adequately prepare themselves for how to handle difficult

Ecosystem in place for a software hub: Ravi Shankar Prasad

NEW DELHI: India can become a big hub for software products, especially since the entire ecosystem of payments, favourable policies and the technology is already in place, said Union minister for electronics, IT and communications, Ravi Shankar Prasad. The country can also develop as a centre for deep technology, Prasad

Software firm TeamViewer expected to price in upper half of range: bookrunner

FRANKFURT (Reuters) – German software company TeamViewer (1UD.DE) is expected to price its initial public offering in the upper half of the projected range, one of its bookrunners said on Monday, indicating that one of Europe’s largest IPOs of the year remains on track. The deal values

How investing in hardware differs from software — and why it’s worth the trouble

Software will eat the world. That’s what they say, but IoT is inherently not only software. When it comes to looking at hardware startups, or even products, you need to look at a lot of moving parts. Potential investors need to look at hardware in a very

Q-CTRL raises $15M for software that reduces error and noise in quantum computing hardware

As hardware makers continue to work on ways of making wide-scale quantum computing a reality, a startup out of Australia that is building software to help reduce noise and errors on quantum computing machines has raised a round of funding to fuel its U.S. expansion. Q-CTRL is designing

An AI First: Voice-Mimicking Software Reportedly Used in a Major Theft

Thieves used voice-mimicking software to imitate a company executive’s speech and dupe his subordinate into sending hundreds of thousands of dollars to a secret account, the company’s insurer said, in a remarkable case that some researchers are calling one of the world’s first publicly reported artificial-intelligence heists.

Huawei likely to release phone with in-house operating system in 2019

In May 2019 the US government banned Huawei from using any software or hardware created by American companies, meaning its popular line of phones could no longer use Android as an operation system. Now, in response, Chinese state-run media publication Global Times said that, yes, Huawei is in the process