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Huawei Launches Services in Saudi Arabia

5Sep By AnkitaNo Comments

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Huawei Launches Services in Saudi Arabia

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia , Sept. 5, 2023-- Huawei announced the launch of the Huawei Cloud Riyadh Region at the Huawei Cloud Saudi Arabia Summit 2023. This Region will help promote digital-driven economic growth in the country. The launch of the Huawei Cloud Riyadh Region announced that the Saudi Arabia region will be the focus of Huawei Cloud to serve the Middle East , Central Asia and Africa, providing innovative, reliable, secure and sustainable cloud services. This achievement underscores Huawei CLOUD's unwavering dedication to supporting Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030, aligned with the nation's ambitious goals of technological advancement, leadership, and innovation. Huawei Cloud Saudi Region is located in Riyadh and, through a 3AZ (availability zone) architecture, will provide secure ...

Google Acquire Data Mining Startup Dataform

9Dec By PriyankaNo Comments

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Google Acquire Data Mining Startup Dataform

London, 9th December 2020: Uk based data analytics platform Dataform is joining Google Cloud, the announcement came from Dataform blog. Dataform will continue to be run and maintained by the same 7 members team under the part of Google Cloud. Launched in 2017 by Guillaume-Henri Huon & Lewis Hemens, Dataform enables entire data to collaboratively develop, test, and share with business on which they make decisions. As part o the deal, Dataform Web will be free for all new users and existing customers will be transitioned onto the free plan immediately. "Throughout our journey we’ve been focused on giving data analysts and data engineers the tools they need to take raw, messy data, transform it, and put it into the hands of their organization. We’ve only just scratched the s...

23Nov By AdityaNo Comments

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GlobalLogic Acquires UK based ECS Group

SAN JOSE, Calif. & LONDON, Nov 23rd, 2020-- GlobalLogic has acquired ECS Group, a leading digital transformation and DevOps consultancy firm. The Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Headquartered in London, ECS delivers digital solutions that harness the latest cloud technologies, with a focus on Digital Engineering, Data Analytics and Customer Experience. The company serves multiple industries, with particular expertise in the banking and financial services sector. With the acquisition of ECS, GlobalLogic advances its European strategy, expands its Financial Services footprint and adds a host of complementary cloud-centric offerings to its portfolio. ECS brings to GlobalLogic a highly regarded proficiency in cloud architecture and advisory services as well as e...

HR and Payroll platform Paylocity acquire Samepage

16Nov By AnkitaNo Comments

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HR and Payroll platform Paylocity acquire Samepage

SCHAUMBURG, Ill., Nov. 16, 2020-- Paylocity (NASDAQ: PCTY), a leading provider of cloud-based HR and payroll software solutions acquire Samepage, an all-in-one team collaboration solution. Samepage offers digital collaboration tools including task management, file sharing, real-time document collaboration and more. With the deal, Paylocity expands its product functionality in these areas and demonstrates a commitment to building its modern workforce suite of solutions that meet the needs of both HR teams and employees. Through Paylocity's acquisition of Samepage, clients and their employees can collaborate to elevate the remote work experience while increasing productivity and efficiency among teams. "We've always viewed our clients as the co-creators of our products, and joi...

Wipro Acquire Fintech Service Provider Encore Theme

28Oct By PriyankaNo Comments

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Wipro Acquire Fintech Service Provider Encore Theme

BANGALORE, India, 28th Oct 2020 -- Wipro Limited (NYSE: WIT, BSE: 507685, NSE: WIPRO), a leading global IT company acquire Encore Theme, a specialist in providing SaaS and Cloud solutions in financial services for an undisclosed amount. Over the past decade, Encore Theme headquartered in Chennai, India has focused exclusively on implementing a broad suite of Trade Finance solutions, developed by Finastra, one of the world’s largest fintech, to financial institutions across the Middle East, Africa, India, and the Asia Pacific. They have successfully delivered more than 75 large scale Finastra Trade Finance projects for banks across these regions. Financial institutions are all looking to modernize their trade platforms and focus on the end-to-end digitalization of commercial routines...

24Aug By PriyankaNo Comments

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NIIT Technologies Renamed itself, Now known as Coforge

NOIDA, India, Aug. 24, 2020-- NIIT Technologies, a leading global IT solutions and services organization has begun operating under a new name Coforge Limited. This renaming initiative reflects both the evolution of the company as well as its vision for the future. Launched in 1981, the firm has over the last three years charted a very high growth and change trajectory. A focus on very select industries, a detailed understanding of the underlying processes of those industries and partnerships with leading platforms provides Coforge with a distinct vantage. Coforge leverages AI, Cloud, and Insight-driven technologies, allied with industry expertise to transform client businesses into intelligent, high growth enterprises. The organization's 11,000+ Employees are the change driv...

5 Data Analytics Trends That Will Define the Decade

20Jul By AnkitaNo Comments

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5 Data Analytics Trends That Will Define the Decade

With everything that’s been going on in 2020, it’s easy to forget that we’re on the cusp of a new decade. Technology continues to advance, and big data keeps getting bigger perhaps even more so now that many people are stuck at home, using the internet to stay connected more than ever before. Data is proliferating at staggering rate humankind will generate more than 175 zettabytes of data by 2025. Over the next ten years, players big and small are expected to seek ways to implement data science to increase profits and improve operations. Data analytics is a fast-growing and rapidly changing field, but these are some of the most important trends data scientists expect to see in the decade to come. 1) More Smart Stuff It seems like you literally can’t even buy a lightbulb these...

Buying a VPN? Here are 5 Things to Look For

8May By PriyankaNo Comments

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Buying a VPN? Here are 5 Things to Look For

VPNs have become quite popular especially due to the increase in surveillance, data breaches, geo-restrictions, censorships, etc. Having a good VPN can, therefore, go a long way in keeping your online activities private and secure, as well as enhancing your daily life by offering you internet freedom. However, there are hundreds of products in the market that you can choose from. This makes it hard to decide the right product for you, but there are some basic features everyone should look for. Unfortunately, most of these features are only found in premium VPNs. And although there are some great and truly free VPN providers, most of them are still out there to make money and may not provide you with the best experience. 1. Speed VPNs usually have an effect on your speeds ...

9Nov By Gauri SinghNo Comments

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Cisco Ties up With AWS to Help Businesses Run Apps in The Cloud

Cisco Systems has reportedly tied up with Amazon's Amazon Web Services for the purpose of offering software tools that would make it easier for Cisco's customers to use Amazon's data centers to run their business applications. This step has been taken as a part of a push at Cisco, one of the biggest suppliers of the routers and switches that send data across computer networks. Also, the basic motive is to gain more revenue from software and stay current with longtime business customers that are seeking to do more work with cloud computing companies like Amazon, Alphabet's Google Cloud unit or Microsoft's Azure. "The way we like to think about it at Cisco is, we're growing and adding a software business to a very important hardware business," Kip Compton, Cisco's senior vice president o...

Paytm to Launch AI-powered Cloud Computing Platfotm in India

21Aug By Gauri SinghNo Comments

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Paytm to Launch AI-powered Cloud Computing Platfotm in India

The most popular digital payments firm Paytm’s parent company One97 Communications has announced that they are launching a new AI Cloud computing platform known as “Paytm AI Cloud for India” for developers, startups and enterprises. The basic purpose behind the launch of this platform is to offer business-centric apps for organizations that require high-quality solutions for cloud computing, automate their workflow, easy payments, messaging and customer engagement without the hassle of managing hardware and software. The company has stated that Paytm AI Cloud processes and collects all their consumer data locally in servers situated only in India and at the same time following the highest security and privacy standards. It has been reported that the company has invested around Rs 250...

Hinduja Global Solutions Acquires 57% Stakes in Element Solutions for $5 Mn

31Mar By Sheldan RungasamyNo Comments

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Hinduja Global Solutions Acquires 57% Stakes in Element Solutions for $5 Mn

Hinduja Global Solutions (HGS) announced that its daughter company Hinduja Global Solutions UK Limited has bought out 57% stake in Element Solutions, which is a digital consulting services company for a $5 million consolidation. The deal is scheduled to be completed in 15 days and will serve to improve the digital marketing and digital experience service of the firm. "Hinduja Global Solutions UK Ltd has today entered into a definitive agreement to acquire 57 per cent equity stake in Element Solutions LLC, USA... Post-acquisition, HGS will add over 75 employees comprising strategic thinkers, digital marketers, user-centric designers, software engineers and developers, of whom 33 are in the US and the rest in India," HGS Chief Executive Officer Partha DeSarkar said. Element Solutions i...

Google’s Search For Non-ad Revenue Puts Spotlight on Cloud & Pixel

1May By reutersNo Comments

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Google’s Search For Non-ad Revenue Puts Spotlight on Cloud & Pixel

Alphabet's non-advertising business, which houses its cloud unit, Pixel smartphones and the Play store, has long been sandwiched between Google's advertising juggernaut and its moonshot ventures that have captured popular imagination. Not any more. The business, categorized as "Other Revenue" in its earnings report, posted a 49.4% jump in revenue to $3.10 billion on Thursday - a sum already bigger than Twitter's annual revenue. The business now represents about 13% of Alphabet's total revenue, compared with 10% a year earlier. That may not be a big jump but definitely shines a light on Google's efforts to cut down its dependence on revenue from advertising, where it competes with Facebook. "(Google) is doing a good job, a much better job in diversifying revenue than Facebook is...