Ford, Volkswagen Finalize Partnership to Build EV, Delivery Vans, and Pickup Truck

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Reports of Ford and Volkswagen coming together in an alliance first started coming out in January 2019. Back then, all we knew was that the two massive brands would partner to work on electric cars, commercial vans, and autonomous technology. Now, the two automakers have put out some more information on what we can look forward to from the two brands. Big Things Are Coming The most exciting bit of news for consumers is the introduction of a medium pickup truck that will be offered as the Volkswagen Amarok. The…

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Apple Maps brings helpful feature for Indian users

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Apple Maps is leaving no stones unturned to match up to Google Maps in India. Apple Maps has introduced a new “Nearby” feature for users in India just like Google Maps. The latter has been offering Nearby feature for a few years now. The new Nearby feature makes it easy for Apple Maps users to find nearby grocery stores, hospitals, medical stores, and more. Besides India, Apple rolled out the Nearby feature to 30 other countries including Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Croatia, Czech Republic, El Salvador, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Indonesia,…

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Wipro Partners with and Invests in CloudKnox Security to Secure Multi-Cloud

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Wipro Limited, a leading global information technology, consulting, and business process services company, today announced a partnership with CloudKnox Security. The Wipro and CloudKnox joint solution offering enables enterprises to proactively protect and manage their Hybrid and Multi-Cloud infrastructure by continuously detecting and remediating over-permissioned identities. Wipro Ventures, the corporate investment arm of Wipro, invested in CloudKnox through its recently announced $150M Fund II, to strengthen the strategic partnership. Rapid adoption of Hybrid and Multi-Cloud infrastructure by enterprises is leading to an increase in the attack surface area, and as…

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Capgemini partners with Coursera to reskill employees in digital technologies

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We are excited to announce that Capgemini, a global leader in consulting, digital transformation, technology, and engineering services, has partnered with Coursera to offer high-quality learning to its employees. Starting today, Capgemini’s employees in nearly 50 countries will have access to 4,000 courses on Coursera for Business. No one could have predicted the impact that COVID-19 has had on the world of work and the dramatic way it will change how businesses operate and serve customers in the long-term. For Capgemini, it has reinforced its business imperative of encouraging employees…

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Twitter bringing Instagram-like version of stories called ‘fleets’ in India

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Twitter is bringing Fleets, its version of Stories that lets users post ephemeral content to its social network, to India. The feature finally brings Twitter at par with the likes of Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and WhatsApp, wherein users will get to post temporary updates on their Twitter profiles, which will last only for 24 hours. The initiative is a part of the tech giant’s constant endeavour to make it possible for people “to have conversations in new ways with less pressure and more control.” India, the world’s second-largest internet market,…

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Coca-Cola and Unilever top Effie 2020 global marketing rankings

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Coca-Cola is the most effective brand globally, while Unilever is the most effective marketer, according to the Effie 2020 global index rankings, which have just been announced. Coca-Cola has ranked in the top five every year since the Index launched in 2011, taking the top spot six times. Coca-Cola China’s ‘Faces of the City’ campaign was a standout, winning gold, silver and bronze recognitions for its effective use of augmented reality (AR) and packaging. McDonald’s came in second place for the second year in a row, with work such as…

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Wipro, IBM partner to help enterprises, startups with cloud services

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Information technology (IT) services major Wipro Ltd on Monday said it will collaborate with IBM to assist their customers on a “seamless and secure” hybrid cloud journey. The co-innovation centre Wipro IBM Novus Lounge located at the former’s Kodathi campus in Bengaluru is a dedicated centre which will offer “a comprehensive suite of solutions leveraging cloud, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and internet of things (IoT) capabilities to foster innovation for enterprises, developers and startups.” “As companies across the world continue to drive digital transformation, decision-makers must rethink radically…

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Instagram associates with Swiggy, Zomato to help small restaurants

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Facebook-owned Instagram on Thursday announced its partnership with online food delivery platforms Swiggy and Zomato to support small businesses in India during the Covid-19 crisis. The photo-messaging app also announced the rollout of the food order sticker in India that will help businesses from the food industry stay in touch with their customers and allow customers to support their favorite businesses too. Businesses can now share Instagram’s new food order sticker on their Stories, and people can tap to place their order through the Swiggy and Zomato website. “We’re rolling…

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BCT Digital initiates early warning systems to tackle NPAs

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BCT Digital is a global FinTech company specializing in BFSI, predictive analytics, and risk management. BCT Digital has announced the launch of its specialized ‘Real-Time Early Warning Systems for credit monitoring’. This is to tackle the Non-Performing Assets Real Time Early Warning System for Credit Monitoring” is its AI-based upgrade to their current EWS product suite. The company aims at assisting banks and other financial institutions through its “rt360 – Early Warning System”. The system is currently being used by the top notch and reputed public and private sector banks…

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L&T Technology Services partners with CogniLore to accelerate digital transformation needs of educational institutes and corporates

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L&T Technology Services, a global pure-play engineering services company, announced that it served as a technology partner to Canada’s CogniLore Information Solutions enabling it to offer its acclaimed proLibro digital delivery tools for mass adoption by educational institutes and businesses who now face the imminent task of realigning their operations and business model for a “work from home” environment. The move is in line with the recent spurt in demand of educational institutes to deliver their age-old teaching mechanisms to the COVID-19 triggered work from home mode where academia-student engagement…

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