Category: Technology

New York: Wipro chairman Azim Premji and HCL founder Shiv Nadar are the only two Indian tycoons in the top 20 richest people in the world of technology, according to an inaugural list by Forbes that has been topped by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates. Premji is ranked 13th on Forbes’ first ever list of ‘100 Richest People In Tech’, followed […]

Bangaluru: As Googlers woke up to Alphabet on Tuesday, the mood at its India offices was mostly upbeat, with employees joining in the applause about Sundar Pichai taking the reins at Google. “We woke up to the news this morning. It was as much a surprise for us as for the rest of the world. But it is a good […]

Washington: India-born Sundar Pichai was named CEO of Google on Tuesday by the company’s founders Larry Page and Sergei Brin in course of a re-organization that created a mother company called Alphabet. Pichai, 43, a Chennai native who went to IIT Kharagpur and later to Stanford and Wharton, will take charge of a slimmed down Google (quickly dubbed Google Minus) […]

New Delhi: Social networking giant Facebook has distributed benefits worth $20 million to developers in India, its second largest market globally to help them build and monetize apps. Under its FbStart initiative that was started last year, the US-based firm has provided free tools and services worth $50 million to help developers in the Asia Pacific region. “Developers are an […]

New York: Silicon Valley giants Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and Twitter are working with Britain’s Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) to implement a new system that will help detect and block images of child pornography online. IWF, a charitable foundation, has introduced a new technology that enables it to tag images of sexual abuse with distinct hashes – sort of codes […]