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Archives for May 2020
NoBroker to hire more staff, give salary hike
Online real estate search platform NoBroker has decided to hire over 100 people and hike salaries of its existing staff at a time when real estate companies are laying off staff and cutting salaries. The company, which raised funding of $30 million in a Series D round from General Atlantic in April 2020, is witnessing […]
HoloLens 2 expands markets; Azure mixed reality services now broadly available
“When the intelligent cloud and intelligent edge are imbued with mixed reality and artificial intelligence, we have a framework for achieving amazing things and empowering even more people.” – Satya Nadella, Microsoft CEO speaking at the HoloLens 2 launch At Microsoft Build 2020, we shared some exciting mixed reality news that is helping us create […]
Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes preview and new ecosystem partners
In November 2019, we announced the preview of Azure Arc, a set of technologies that unlocks new hybrid scenarios for customers by bringing Azure services and management to any infrastructure across datacenters, edge, and multi-cloud. Based on the feedback and excitement of all the customers in the private preview, we are able to deliver Azure […]
Life 2.0: Creating pandemic-ready smart cities with COVID-19 learnings
Change is a constant. Right from the metal to machine age, till the era of digital revolution, we have seen several changes impacting our lives. In the information age we are in today, the pace of change has notched up manifold. The rigorous changes in our lifestyle has invoked us to think of ways to […]
Treasury yields slide with coronavirus vaccine efforts, reopening in focus
U.S. government debt prices were higher on Wednesday morning amid a volatile week on Wall Street, with investors monitoring progress on a coronavirus vaccine and economic reopening efforts. At around 2:10 a.m. ET, the yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note dipped to 0.6931% and the yield on the 30-year Treasury bond was down at 1.4181%. […]
ShareChat lays off 101 employees as advertising market tanks
ShareChat laid off 101 employees on Wednesday, or about a fourth of the workforce, as the regional social media firm expects the advertising market to be unpredictable this year. The Twitter-backed firm sent an email to employees on early morning Wednesday informing them about the various cost-cutting measures. The five-year-old company had started monetizing the […]
Mark Zuckerberg worried about Chinese internet model spreading to other nations
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is “worried” that countries across the world may be trying to imitate China’s approach of regulating the internet, which “disregards” human rights. In an hour-long conversation about threats posed by Covid-19 with European Union official Thierry Breton, Zuckerberg said the West should counter China with a “democratic” approach to the Internet. […]
‘Way too late’: Inside Amazon’s biggest Covid-19 outbreak
Therese Kelly arrived for her shift at an Amazon warehouse March 27 to find her co-workers standing clustered in the cavernous space. They were awaiting a buildingwide announcement, a rarity at the complex known as AVP1. Over a loudspeaker, a manager told them what they had feared: For the first time, an employee had tested […]
Facebook launches ‘Shops’ to showcase online stores
Facebook on Tuesday reached out to businesses struggling to survive the pandemic with free tools for creating online “Shops” at the social network and Instagram. Merchants can easily set up shops on Facebook and Instagram, customize looks and display products, according to the California-based internet giant. “The primary focus is to ensure small and medium […]