PUNE: For the first time, the smartphone market in India crossed the 30 million unit shipments milestone in the third quarter of this year, the International Data Corp (IDC) reported on Tuesday. According to IDC’s Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, smartphone shipments clocked 32.3 million units in Q3 2016 with 17.5 pct growth over…
SAN FRANCISCO: In a move to “democratise” artificial intelligence (AI) and making it accessible to everyone, Microsoft has teamed up with OpenAI, a non-profit AI research organisation co-founded by Elon Musk. OpenAI is the $1 billion project co-founded by Tesla CEO Musk, US-based startup incubator “Y Combinator” President Sam Altman and others. …
NEW DELHI: Signalling a clear reversal of the earlier continuous decline in Indian exports, official data on Tuesday showed these grew for the second month in a row at $23.51 billion in October on the back of a good showing by the jewellery and engineering sectors. Exports thus registered a healthy 9.59 pct growth…
NEW DELHI: In a boost to Prime Minister Narendra Modis ‘Make in India’ initiative, automaker Ford has decided to export to the U.S. its Ecosport SUVs manufactured at its plantsin Chennai. Ecosport is one of the most popular subcompact SUVs around the globe. Its new version was unveiled at the Los Angeles Auto Show on Monday. USA…
MUMBAI: Vodafone Business Services (VBS), the enterprise arm of Vodafone India, on Thursday announced it has tied up with Google Cloud to offer G Suite to bring people together and help them work smarter. The “G Suite” has a set of intelligent apps — Gmail, Docs, Drive, Calendar, Hangouts designed with real-time collaboration and machine…
Fed Governor Stephen Miran on Friday suggested that surging demand for dollar-denominated stablecoins could help push U.S. interest rates lower. In a speech delivered for an audience of economists in New York, the central bank official and appointee of President Donald Trump said the flood of crypto tokens pegged to the dollar could tamp down…
BENGALURU: According to the latest reports, Air India has incurred a loss of 246.14 crore for the April-June quarter. The operating loss has declined from 315.37 during the same period last year, Minister of State for Civil Aviation, Jayant Sinha informed the Lok Sabha. This is the first time in nearly a decade when Air…
Manoj Sinha (PTI file photo) SRINAGAR: In his first statement after the Faridabad-Delhi terror module was busted, J&K Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha Wednesday said terrorism has been the biggest enemy of the youth in the state for more than three decades and it destroyed their dreams and aspirations.“Now that our youth and young professionals are…
MUMBAI: Multi-lingual domestic operating system brand Indus OS on Friday announced its partnership with Intex Technologies to provide a better experience for users pan-India. With this partnership, Intex will be strengthening its regional push to tap the fast growing regional language consumers and launch Indus OS powered smartphones soon. “Today, we are…
MUMBAI: Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) and US global conglomerate GE on Thursday announced a global partnership in the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) space to boost digital transformation. RIL and GE will work together to build joint applications on GE’s Predix platform — a move that will provide Industrial IOT solutions to customers in oil and gas,…
