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Adani forays into data centre business, sets up 50:50 JV with EdgeConnex

In addition to full-scale data centres, AdaniConneX will also develop a portfolio of Edge data centres strategically located across the country to address the need for more proximate capacity

India can lead in building global tech frameworks: Facebook India MD

Says private sector needs to have more transparency in building a trustworthy ecosystem

One million smart speakers worth Rs 463.4 cr shipped in India in 2020

Amazon led the segment both in value and volume market shares (80 per cent market share) while Google managed 11 per cent market share by volume in 2020

Thriving in uber-uncertainty

Book review of Beyond Great: Nine Strategies for Thriving in an Era of Social Tension, Economic Nationalism and Technological Revolution

Relaxation in admission norms for NITs, centrally funded tech institutions

Requirement of 75 per cent marks in class 12 was waived off

Messaging app Signal faces outage days after adding millions of users

Currently, more than 1,300 users are still facing issues, according to outage tracking website Downdetector

US blacklists Xiaomi: Tech corp refutes Chinese military affiliation claim

After the US blacklisted Xiaomi citing affiliation with the "Communist Chinese military company", the Chinese tech company on Friday said it is reviewing the potential consequences

CES 2021: LG Rollable phone, MiniLED display tech, robots, and more

Nationalism will drive global alliances in 2021

The era of tech nationalism launched with India banning Chinese tech platforms and telecom equipment

Agritech startup CropIn raises $20 mn from Temasek-backed ABC World, others

With this new round, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation-backed startup has raised total funding of $33.1 mn so far

We must bridge gender-gap in science and tech jobs: Venkaiah Naidu

Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu expressed concern over under-representation of women in science and technology jobs and urged that steps be taken to rectify the situation

Best of BS Opinion: Covid-19 vaccine, promise of techno-nationalism & more

Here's a selection of Business Standard opinion pieces for the day

The promise of techno-nationalism

Techno-nationalism sees nation states using their superiority in specific technologies rise up the global hierarchy and dominate other nations

Crisis and opportunity: 2020, the year of technology amid Covid-19 pandemic

Tech companies emerged winners from the pandemic, others quickly adapted to change and thrived, but some sank deeper into problems

America can't retain supremacy against Chinese tech by walling itself off

As China approaches technological parity with the U.S. in a variety of high-value industries, the U.S. has acted to maintain supremacy

2021 may see people using technology to thrive, not just survive

Technology to get smarter in new year

8 predictions by Amazon CTO on how tech will change our lives next year

Though predictions are always tough, Vogels sticks his neck out and makes eight predictions on how technology will continue to change our lives in the coming year

Technology is powering farmers' protest at Delhi's Singhu border

It's been over two weeks since thousands of farmers arrived at Delhi's Singhu border to demand a repeal of the Centre's agri reforms

Indian wealth-tech segment to be $60 bn opportunity by FY25: Report

Indian wealth-tech market is expected to grow three times by FY25

Pound for pound, Taiwan is now the most important place in the world

Over the past year, Taiwan has taken a lead in the race to build thinner, faster and more powerful chips, or semiconductors