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Authored by Rahul Kumar, Country Manager, WinMagic The new EU General Data Protection Regulation (EU GDPR), which takes effect on 25 May 2018,requires that any businesses dealing with the European Union (EU) will need to comply with the new laws. The EU continues to be a significant market for the IT/BPO industry in India. The top two EU member states—Germany and …

Part of Amazon’s MoU with Department of Tribal Development, Government of Gujarat to train and support tribal entrepreneurs across the state and enable their digital presence Amazon India, in line with its vision to transform the way India buys and sells, conducted its first regional workshop today in Narmada to train and enable tribal entrepreneurs in Gujarat. The first workshop, …

Authored by: Apurva Agarwal, Business Analyst, Altimetrik In an era where the world is talking about cashless economies and the benefits that come with it, there has been a major push from the Indian government to usher our country towards a digital and cashless era. A major step in this cashless campaign has been the current demonetization of the INR …

Tata Capital, the financial services arm of the Tata Group, unveiled its Artificial Intelligence (AI) based online Chatbot which, through its unique natural language and cognitive learning capabilities, understands and provides a response to individual online queries around its financial services products. Powered by a virtual agent (VA) engine, the online Chatbot represents a huge step forward by Tata Capital …

Fintech start-up Zeta, which offers digital employee benefits for tax optimisation, has tied up with National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) payment platform – RuPay. The partnership will widen Zeta’s payment network and push for a more inclusive adoption of digital payments in corporate India. This collaboration makes Zeta’s meal voucher solution the first ever such solution to run on Government of India endorsed RuPay …

Global consumer study shows hesitancy to use AI technology even though most unwittingly already are A new global study released by Pegasystems Inc. (NASDAQ: PEGA), the software company empowering customer engagement at the world’s leading enterprises, revealed consumers are confused about what artificial intelligence (AI) really does, resulting in misplaced fears that inhibit them from embracing AI-based technology. However, these …

Contributing to more than one-third of the daily user on-boarding and verifications on third party mobile apps, TrueSDK is now available for iOS and web-based platforms in addition to android platform.  The update will allow developers and startups across verticals and across mobile and web platforms to leverage TrueSDK’s phone number identity based frictionless service for authenticating, autofiling profile and …

Raine Announces Expansion into India The Raine Group (“Raine” or the “firm”), a global merchant bank focused exclusively on technology, media and telecommunications, today announced that it will expand its operations into India and open a new office in Mumbai.  Raine also announced that Gaurav Mehta will head the firm’s new India business as a Managing Director based in Mumbai.  …

Cloud has become an imperative for anybody in the IT ecosystem. ITPV takes a look at how an increase in cloud portfolio impacts the channel business. It’s been more than a decade since IT vendors and channels alike have been talking and doing cloud. Many amongst the channel community, especially in India, took a cautious and conservative approach to hop …

Discussions earlier today between Indian Prime Minister Modi and EIB President Werner Hoyer reflected the shared climate and environmental priorities of India and the European Union. Prime Minister Modi took the opportunity to express his gratitude to the EIB for delivering on a promise to open a permanent office in India made at the EU-India summit in Brussels a year …