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The National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) today released a report titled, “Contributions of India’s Tech Industry to the U.S. Economy” on the sidelines of U.S.-India Strategic and Commercial Dialogue. According to the report, India-based information technology companies providing services to American businesses and other customers invested more than $2 billion in 2011-2013; paid $22.5 billion in taxes …

Following the Prime Minister’s clarion call of ‘Start up India, Stand up India’ from the ramparts of the Red Fort, NASSCOM, TiE Silicon Valley, and IIM Ahmedabad’s CIIE India are hosting the first India- U.S. Startup Konnect in the Silicon Valley on 27th September, to showcase the strengths of India’s startup ecosystem. This day-long event, on the side of the …

Dell today announced the national winner of “Dell Champs – 2015” School Program, a 20 city student-outreach program woven around the theme, ‘Learning Meets Doing’. Dell Champs is a part of Dell’s student contact program which, riding on four years of success, has completed its 5th effective year. This year’s winning duo is Rahul Jayanti and his son Kaushik from …

Flash technologies have made a significant impact on the enterprise storage space.  It has given some real answers to long term questions for getting faster, smarter and cost-effective storage solutions. Where the industry headed and what is more can be expected of it – an analysis. Today, Flash memory is present everywhere – in small computing device- s and becoming …

Citizens can now register their queries and concerns for the PM through a simple call MyOperator, the call management system on the cloud has tied up with the Government of India to provide its stellar cloud telephony services for Prime Minister Modi’s radio programme Mann Ki Baat. Through its powerful technology architecture, MyOperator has collaborated with the programme to handle …

Happitoo app brings together the largest curated experience around everything that defines nightlife. Launched on 21st Aug ’15, the app covers 8000+ nightspots in 700+ locations across 15 cities in India, the app helps find the closest restaurants, bars, pubs, lounges and clubs from your current location Happitoo is a location based nightlife experience platform that enables users to explore, …

High Performance Computing is now moving beyond scientific, engineering applications.  With Big Data exploding, and commercial applications needing high performance processing, the demand for HPC is like never before.  Cloud based HPC infrastructure enables small businesses needing high performance computing achieve their results.   With focus on voluntary groups and competency centres, vendors in India are investing for growth of HPC …

Smaaash Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. today unveiled India’s Test Captain, ViratKohli, as the ‘Smaaash Youth Icon’ for its chain of sports-centric interactive entertainment and gaming centers around the country. The leader in innovative entertainment and active engagement, Smaaash signed India’s leading youth icon and a sportsperson par excellence, Virat Kohli, who will drive Smaaash’s vision of redefining entertainment and sports engagement …

Cleo announced that it has opened Center of Innovation at Bengaluru, India. This Center of Innovation will play a critical role in developing competitive products for the global marketplace, creating innovative technology solutions that are well aligned with the various advancements happening in the area of enterprise integration software solutions. Cleo technology enables secure and scalable movement of critical business …

  Intel Security released its McAfee Labs Threats Report: August 2015, which includes a critique of graphics processing unit (GPU) malware claims, an investigation of the top cybercriminal exfiltration techniques, and a five-year retrospective on the evolution of the threat landscape since Intel Corporation’s announcement of the McAfee acquisition. The five-year threat landscape analysis suggests: Intel Security foresaw threats targeting …