December 22nd, 2018
iPhone maker Apple has elevated John Giannandrea to the company's executive team as Senior Vice President of Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) strategy. Giannandrea, who joined Apple from Google in April, oversees the strategy for AI and ML across products and services, as well as the development of Core ML...
October 3rd, 2018The IT giant Infosys has announced a three-year partnership with Cornell University for the purpose of training employees in emerging technologies such as blockchain, machine learning and human-computer interaction.
Following the collaboration, at least 3000 Infosys employees globally are expected to participate in the joint...
September 21st, 2018Customer engagement software company Freshworks launched its second India office at Bengaluru. This unit will act as a second engineering center and will be focussed on building new platforms and to dedicate more resources to its data science requirements.
The SaaS unicorn is preparing for scale - and handling a larger customer...
July 2nd, 2018The American online payment company Paypal is considering India as a market for increasing growth and therefore, is planning to appoint over 600 techies by the end of this year that is by December, in the machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) sector.
Paypal is one of the largest online payment services till date that...
June 21st, 2018The world’s largest PC software company Microsoft has officially announced that according to an agreement, it is soon going to acquire an artificial intelligence (AI) startup called Bonsai.
Founded in 2014, the AI company Bonsai is headquartered in San Fransisco and the primary motive of Microsoft behind this acquisition is to...
June 4th, 2018The Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Jio Infocomm has started its hunt for a team of experts to work under Akash Ambani regarding the Artificial Intelligence (AI) of the firm. Apart from AI, the company is also seeking for young people to work on machine learning and blockchain technology (a digital ledger in which transactions are...
May 21st, 2018Flipkart, India’s one of the biggest online stores has announced that mandatory visits to the sellers’ location to audit their warehouses and merchandise will be done to keep a check on the quality standards and bring down the percentage of return.
Though the company did not disclose their present return percentage, it’s quite...
April 26th, 2018Tripshelf, an online travel marketplace announced on Wednesday that it raised a funding round worth Rs 1.6 crore from a group of investors which includes GEMS advisory, Alok Mittal of Indifi, Sachin Bhatia the co-founder of MakeMyTrip and TrulyMadly, and more.
The funds raised will be used to consolidate its business operations and...
April 20th, 2018Bengaluru based startup Fyle, an expense management platform has announced a fresh round of $1.1 Million funding from existing investors, Pravega Ventures and Beenext.
Also part of this funding round is a strategic investment from Girish Mathrubootham led Freshworks, which has been a customer of Fyle across multiple...
April 12th, 2018Chariot, an Internet of Things (IoT) startup received Rs 2 crore in a Pre-Series A funding round led by international venture capitalist firm, GEMs Partners. The capital raised will serve to service existing and future clients, to improve their technology and expand to newer markets.
This investment by GEMs partners will help us in...
March 21st, 2018Green Tech Startup Facilio raised a funding round of around $1.5 million from Accel Partners.
Founded in March 2017 by former Zoho Executives Prabhu Ramachandra, Rajavel Subramanian and Yogendra Babu, the firm runs facilities on autopilot from maintenance to sustainability; meaning that it manages to build operations in real time...
