IT clients stick to smaller deals on headwinds

Above $100 million ACV deals form just 10% of activity in July-September quarter, lowest in 5 years: ISG

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Elon Musk says Twitter in precarious position, defends cost cuts

"This company is like, basically, you're in a plane that is headed towards the ground at high speed with the engines on fire and the controls don't work," Musk told a late-night audience on a Twitter Spaces call Tuesday.

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More than 7.6K rides availed by commuters on Kochi Open Mobility Network

This is of significance because KOMN is now going to be integrated with the government-backed Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC) where users can avail commuting options in addition to buying groceries, food, and beverages on the network.

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Video gamers sue Microsoft in US court to stop Activision takeover

The complaint filed in federal court in California comes about two weeks after the U.S. Federal Trade Commission filed a case with an administrative law judge seeking to stop Microsoft, owner of the Xbox console, from completing the largest-ever acquisition in the video-gaming market.

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Twitter rolls out grey tick mark for govt, golden for companies

The company on December 12 announced that it will be "replacing the "official" label with a gold checkmark on some business accounts on Twitter. It had said that it would add a grey checkmark for government and multilateral accounts.

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Meta to delay closing acquisition of Within Unlimited by one month

Meta has agreed to push back the closing by one month or until the first day after the court rules on U.S. Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) preliminary injunction trial, according to the filing with the United States District Court for the Northern District Of California.

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US lawmakers to include ban on TikTok on government devices

The Senate last week voted on a bill sponsored by Republican Senator Josh Hawley to bar federal employees from using the ByteDance-owned short video app on government-owned devices. It was the latest action by US lawmakers to crack down on Chinese companies amid national security fears.

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