SILICON Valley giants have become a gargantuan force on Wall Street, as demonstrated by Apple recently topping US$1 trillion in stock-market valuation. But should we fear that a new tech bubble is ready to burst? Here are some questions and answers about the sector: WHAT DOES THE TECH SECTOR REPRESENT ON WALL STREET? Apple ended the formal trading week worth ... Read More »
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Honor Note 10 vs Mi Max 3: Price, Specifications, Features Compared
Honor Note 10 price and specifications compared with its rival Xiaomi Mi Max 3 HIGHLIGHTS Honor Note 10 is a mid-range phone with 5000mAh Battery Honor Note 10 price starts at CNY 2,799 (roughly Rs. 28,100) Both Honor Note 10 and Xiaomi Mi Max 3 have been launched in China Honor Note 10 was officially launched in China earlier this week. The latest ... Read More »
Samsung Galaxy J8 Review
Samsung Galaxy J8 price in India is Rs. 18,990 HIGHLIGHTS The Galaxy J8 sports a 6-inch AMOLED with an 18.5:9 aspect ratio It has a non-removable 3500mAh battery Samsung Galaxy J8 price in India is Rs. 18,990 Samsung has been in the smartphone race longer than most of its competitors. Naturally, the brand has a lot of recognition in India, such ... Read More »
Huawei Nova 3i, Nova 3 First Impressions
Huawei Nova 3 (front) HIGHLIGHTS The Nova 3i price in India is Rs. 20,990 The Huawei Nova 3 has a price tag of Rs. 34,999 Both will be available in India exclusively via Amazon.in The Huawei Nova 3 and Nova 3i are the Chinese phonemaker’s latest offerings in the mid-range smartphone segment in India. These new Nova 3 series phones have been launched within months of ... Read More »
Paytm’s Tech to Power SoftBank’s Mobile Payments Service in Japan
HIGHLIGHTS New smartphone-based payment service will be named PayPay It will be a joint venture between SoftBank and Yahoo Japan PayPay is planned to launch in fall 2018 SoftBank has announced that it will leverage the technology of India-based digital payments company Paytm in a new mobile payments service it is launching. The new smartphone-based payment service, named PayPay, will be a joint ... Read More »
Google Cloud Partners With GitHub on Software Development
Google has announced a partnership with Microsoft-owned GitHub to make a crucial element of modern software development, Continuous Integration, fast and easy. As part of the new collaboration, GitHub, a major software development platform, is getting connected to Google’s Cloud Build, the company’s new CI/Continuous Delivery (CD) platform “Together, we will provide fast, frictionless, and convenient Continuous Integration (CI) for any repository on GitHub, ... Read More »
Amazon, Microsoft Jostle as Pentagon Calls for Cloud Contract Bids
US defence officials unveiled Thursday a much-anticipated final request for tech firms to bid on a massive contract to provide the Pentagon with a comprehensive cloud computing service. Tech titans including Amazon and Microsoft have already spent months jockeying for a winning offer on the prestigious contract, which could be worth as much as $10 billion (roughly Rs. 68,500 crores) over a decade. The ... Read More »
At 1.08 pm, the rupee was trading at 68.80 a dollar, up 0.13% from its previous close of 68.95
So far this year, the rupee has weakened 7.36% against the US dollar. Mumbai: The Indian rupee on Wednesday strengthened marginally against US dollar after local equity markets gained for the fourth session. At 1.08 pm, the rupee was trading at 68.80 a dollar, up 0.13% from its previous close of 68.95. The currency opened at 68.97 a dollar and touched ... Read More »
CFA Institute adds cryptocurrencies, blockchain to its curriculum
The worlds of finance and crypto have become increasingly intertwined after last year’s Bitcoin boom. Photo: Bloomberg Hong Kong/Singapore: It might be the definitive sign that cryptocurrencies have arrived on Wall Street. CFA Institute, whose gruelling three-level program has helped train more than 150,000 financial professionals, is adding topics on cryptocurrenciesand blockchain to its Level I and II curriculums for the first ... Read More »
IIT-Bombay was followed by IIT-Madras at ₹11.67 crore revenue and IIT-Delhi at ₹10.61 crore during 2017-18
There is no relationship between the revenue generated by IITs and the annual budget allocated to them by the ministry in the form of grants-in-aid, a senior HRD ministry official said. Photo HT New Delhi: The revenue generated by IIT-Bombay in the last three years through research, inventions, consultancy and patents was the highest among the premier engineering institutes, according to ... Read More »