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France’s Competition Authority has fined Google $593 million for allegedly failing to comply with orders the regulator had given in a row with the country’s news publishers. According to the French regulator, Google violated its April 2020 orders to negotiate paid deals with news publishers and for publishers’ right to show snippets of their content in its search results. News …

IBM is set to acquire BoxBoat Technologies, a DevOps consultancy and enterprise Kubernetes certified service provider. BoxBoat will extend IBM’s container strategy and implementation services portfolio to further advance IBM’s hybrid cloud strategy and accelerate Red Hat OpenShift adoption globally. “Our clients require a cloud architecture that allows them to operate across a traditional IT environment, private cloud and public …

The global entertainment and media (E&M) industry has regained its momentum, with revenues outpacing the economy as a whole, according to latest Global Entertainment & Media Outlook 2021-2025 from PwC. The $2+ trillion industry is on track to grow 6.5 percent in 2021 and 6.7 percent in 2022, fueled by strong demand for digital content and advertising.  The renewed growth …

Noida, Pune (India): July 9, 2021 – Birlasoft Ltd [BSE: 532400, NSE: BSOFT], part of the USD 2.4 billion diversified CK Birla Group, today announced it has been named a finalist of the 2021 Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards in the Modernizing Applications category. The company was honored among a global field of top Microsoft partners for demonstrating excellence in …

iValue InfoSolutions, India’s premium technology aggregator, today announced their teaming up with CoSoSys a globally recognized IT security company which has been named as one of the fastest growing companies in the IT security market. Established in 2004, CoSoSys has grown multi-fold currently boasting 11 million users worldwide using their rich portfolio of security products and features for device control, data loss …

Titan Workspace has launched its new Guest User Portal functionality for Microsoft Teams. The new functionality enables Microsoft Teams customers to offer branded and dedicated guest user portals for their external users such as customers, partners, vendors, sub-contractors, students, and community members. The new feature will enable seamless collaboration between Office365 users and Non-Active Directory users by facilitating documents, tasks, …

Infor has entered into an agreement to sell its global EAM (Enterprise Asset Management) business to Hexagon AB, a digital reality solutions company, for approximately $2.75 billion in a combination of cash and stock. Infor has formed a strategic relationship with the company to better serve shared customers. In addition, Infor and Koch Equity Development, both subsidiaries of Koch Industries, …

Sophos has acquired Capsule8, a runtime visibility, detection and response provider for Linux production servers and containers covering on-premise and cloud workloads. Founded in 2016, Capsule8 is privately held and headquartered in New York. “Sophos already protects more than two million servers for over 85,000 customers worldwide, and the Sophos server security business is growing at more than 20 percent …

Decimal Technologies, one of India’s leading FinTech firms has announced the appointment of Dinesh Parekh as the President for its Solutions Business. Dinesh will be leading the expansion and growth of company’s digital solutions with a key focus on organizational development, global expansion and product development for the company. This appointment reinforces Decimal’s commitment towards the digital transformation of the …

Union IT and Communications Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has joined the list of ministers who have tendered their resignation ahead of the major Cabinet expansion-cum-reshuffle. His resignation coincides with the exit of Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to rejig his Council of Ministers for the first time since assuming the charge for …