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Gulf Islamic Investments (GII), a leading UAE-based Shariah-compliant financial services firm with over $2 billion of assets under management, has announced its partnership with the Entrepreneurship Cell (E-Cell) of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay, to launch the first international edition of Eureka, which is Asia’s largest business plan competition, in the GCC. The announcement was done at the …

After the great success of its flagship dual-functional wired/wireless BT keyboard V500 Pro, RAPOO launches the GK500 wired Mechanical Backlit Gaming keyboard. The new keyboard is a mechanical key-based wired gaming keyboard, which features an elegant design along with multi-coloured RGB backlit keys. The keyboard is built for tough gaming occasions, has a spill-resistant feature and also creates a gaming …

IT firm Mindtree has appointed key personnel in Europe and Asia-Pacific to expand its presence in the regions. The company has appointed Klaus Seifert as Head of Strategy for Europe and Chief Business Officer for Germany, Austria, and Switzerland (DACH). Munich-based Seifert has over two decades of experience in sales, business development, and profit and loss management across diverse industry …

Over 88 percent of Indian enterprises are investing in customer experience (CX) as a means to grow their business as compared to other countries in the Asia Pacific region, according to a study by Zendesk, in partnership with Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG). Most Indian organizations (88 percent) accelerated their CX projects over the past 12 months compared to their counterparts …

Enterprise data protection company Veritas Technologies has announced the next evolution of Veritas InfoScale, the company’s leading software-defined infrastructure availability solution, that will enable customers to deploy InfoScale as containers in native Kubernetes platforms, including Red Hat OpenShift. The native deployment will make it easier to provide InfoScale’s high availability, persistent storage and storage optimization for stateful Kubernetes critical workloads. …

Avast has announced three new strategic appointments strengthening the threat research, AI, and innovation departments, reporting to Avast’s CTO, Michal Pechoucek. Joining the company are Daria Loi as Head of Innovation, Siggi Stefnisson as Head of Threat Labs, and Andrew B. Gardner as Vice President of Research & AI earlier this year. Daria Loi has extensive experience spanning over two …

Worldwide PC shipments totaled 84.1 million units in the third quarter of 2021, an increase of one percent from the third quarter of 2020 according to Gartner Inc. As covid vaccines become more widely available, consumer and educational spending began to shift away from PCs to other priorities, slowing momentum in the market. “As many schools worldwide reopened, there was …

Palo Alto Networks, the global cybersecurity leader has unveiled in India its new multi-cloud location dedicated to serving local and regional customers, which underlines India’s importance in Palo Alto Networks’ global strategy and commitment. The new cloud location will enable India-based and other regional organizations to benefit from direct, high-performance access to Palo Alto Networks Prisma Cloud, Cortex XDR, WildFire …

IBM reveals that IBM Consulting is the new brand name of its global professional services business previously known as IBM Global Business Services. Enterprises in every industry are seeking to navigate digital and business transformation with speed and agility. They require a technology consulting services partner that understands the stakes of this moment and will work with them to successfully …

Cloud managed service provider G7CR Technologies has launched its STAB program (Sales, Technical and Business Enablement) for Independent Software Vendor (ISV). The program will provide benefits of up to $25,000 for ISVs and will also focus on offering strategic support in sales, tech, and business enablement. The STAB program will help in leveraging G7CR’s existing channels and markets to increase …