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Opportunity in India is massive as it is a developer heavy market: Akamai's Sidharth Pisharoti

The opportunity is immense because there is applicability across industries as every customer or every prospect of the company uses cloud in some shape or form and this includes the public sector which is now starting to use cloud offerings, Pisharoti said.

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The Facebook bug and a misinformation flu

A "bug" in Facebook's News Feed injected a "rush of misinformation" and other dangerous content between October and March

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Indian startups racked up $10 billion in Q1 2022 led by late-stage funding deals

Late- stage deals accounted for 45% - $5.8 billion - of the overall funding this quarter.

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Spacetech startup Pixxel launches 'Shakuntala' satellite with Elon Musk's SpaceX

Being Pixxel's first fully-fledged satellite, 'Shakuntala' hosts one of the highest resolution hyperspectral commercial cameras ever flown to space, bringing it one step closer to building a 24x7 health monitor for the planet

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Microsoft's cloud business targeted by EU antitrust regulators

The company found itself on the EU competition enforcer's radar again after German software provider NextCloud, France's OVHcloud and two other companies filed complaints about Microsoft's cloud practices.

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No more Shopee-ing in India!

Shopee entered India in November 2021, and started growing at a fairly good pace. While it's tough to compete in the low-end of online retail, the geopolitical factors played an important in Shopee pulling the plug here.

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Infosys is closing Russia office: report

A BBC report quoting sources said Indian tech giant Infosys, in which UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak's wife owns shares thought to be worth more than £400m, is closing its office in Russia.

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Yellow.ai deploys 30% of global generative AI bots domestically

While markets like the US are mostly using GenAI for customer support in a bid to cut costs, India Inc. is using them as an opportunity to g...