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Covid-19 will push a lot more customers to look at outsourcing: HCL CEO

Traditional services also have some very strong propositions, like digital workplace, engineering services. Some of the demand for that is intact and it is only getting accelerated.




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Covid-19 Heroes: Digital-led approach has reaped rich dividends for MG Motors

Digital initiatives that began pre lockdown are giving the carmarker confidence that it will emerge stronger when the dust settles.




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How Digitization is helping Cairn India during Covid-19 crisis

Deployment of AI and cloud technologies is helping the energy firm maintain its operations without disruption.




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Digital transformation pace doubles with Covid-19: Tiger Tyagarajan, CEO, Genpact

Genpact sees over 100 clients closing their financial quarter digitally while others are doubling the pace of adoption of digital transformation.




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Covid-19 Heroes Beyond Border: How MARS Global CIO is adopting the art of de-prioritization

In a freewheeling discussion with ETCIO, Miao Song, Global CIO & Global VP of MARS group emphasized this different Covid-19 challenge which is new for CIOs to tackle and difficult too.




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Covid-19 Heroes: Digitization is creating new revenue models for Apollo Hospitals

A remote consultation app at Apollo is allowing safety for both the patients and the frontline doctors while using AI to improve diagnostics.




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Covid-19 Heroes Beyond Borders: Covid-19 is a boon for UAE's Mashreq Bank. Here's Why

Mashreq bank's preparation for digitization has only helped the bank improve its profits during Coronavirus pandemic while most of its competitors continue to struggle




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Side effects of Covid-19: Widespread adoption of telemedicine

From driving behavioral change to encouraging doctor-patient collaboration, telemedicine’s time in the sun has proved beneficial as a collateral benefit of Covid-19.




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Covid-19 Heroes: Focus on security helping Mastercard in times of crisis

In an interview with ETCIO, Vikas Varma, Chief Operating Officer, South Asia, Mastercard talks about how the company’s AI-driven secured contactless payment initiatives have helped them prevent any business losses during the crisis.




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Covid-19 Heroes: Federal Bank sees digital coming to life during lockdown

Several of Federal Bank’s digital initiatives are finally seeing massive adoption as the Kochi-based bank works on automation and self service tools to boost profits.




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Technology services and its changing role during the Covid-19 era

Since ‘virtual’ is the new normal, get imaginative on how you work, how you stay in touch and use technology to make this unique experience also a memorable on.




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Covid-19 Heroes: Why Max Life Insurance sees Covid-19 as an opportunity

The insurance company is planning to make more investments in digital selling and workforce management, thus eyeing the covid-19 situation as an opportunity to strengthen the digital posture than a business challenge.




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Covid-19 Heroes Beyond borders: Mars shifts focus online to ride with the tide

In an interview with ETCIO, Miao Song, Global CIO & Global VP of MARS, talks about the IT & Digital odyssey of the company in tackling the Covid-19 crisis.




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Covid-19 has wiped out the goodnight sleep of a CISO

The stratospheric rise in phishing and identity attacks since the beginning of the Coronavirus pandemic is give sleepless nights to CISOs across the world making them the Digital Security Warriors




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Covid-19 Heroes Beyond Borders: How being a digital-only bank helps in a pandemic

TONIK Financial, Asean’s first licensed digital-only bank, is leveraging cloud to mitigate the risks of Covid-19.




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Covid-19 Heroes: Pidilite focuses on upskilling to emerge stronger from Covid-19

The makers of Fevicol are leveraging this time to retrain staff and gear up technology infrastructure for the post-Covid world.




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Changes in European sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxides and CO2 emissions since 1960

Emissions of sulphur dioxide (SO2) and nitrogen oxides (NOx) have fallen significantly across Europe since 1960. According to recent research, this is caused by a combination of factors including improved energy efficiency, a changing fuel mix and specific emission control measures. At the same time CO2 emissions have only increased moderately, mainly due to improvements in energy efficiency.




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Seagrass worth 190 million Euros per year to Mediterranean fishing

Seagrass meadows are worth around €78 million every year to commercial fishing in the Mediterranean, a new study estimates. Their annual value to recreational fishing is even bigger, at an estimated €112 million. The researchers say that marine policies should consider the socioeconomic effects of the loss of seagrass, which provides habitat for many fishery species.




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Covid-19 Heroes Beyond Borders: How MARS Global CIO is adopting the art of de-prioritization

In a freewheeling discussion with ETCIO, Miao Song, Global CIO & Global VP of MARS group emphasized this different Covid-19 challenge which is new for CIOs to tackle and difficult too.




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Covid-19 Heroes Beyond Borders: Covid-19 is a boon for UAE's Mashreq Bank. Here's Why

Mashreq bank's preparation for digitization has only helped the bank improve its profits during Coronavirus pandemic while most of its competitors continue to struggle




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Covid-19 Heroes: Federal Bank sees digital coming to life during lockdown

Several of Federal Bank’s digital initiatives are finally seeing massive adoption as the Kochi-based bank works on automation and self service tools to boost profits.




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Covid-19 Heroes: Why Max Life Insurance sees Covid-19 as an opportunity

The insurance company is planning to make more investments in digital selling and workforce management, thus eyeing the covid-19 situation as an opportunity to strengthen the digital posture than a business challenge.




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Covid-19 Heroes Beyond borders: Mars shifts focus online to ride with the tide

In an interview with ETCIO, Miao Song, Global CIO & Global VP of MARS, talks about the IT & Digital odyssey of the company in tackling the Covid-19 crisis.




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CIOs emerge as strategists during Covid-19

Global lockdowns will change the way we work forever. This will make the CIO role more strategic than ever.




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Covid-19 Heroes: It's a period of digital-only business: Kotak General Insurance

To tackle the Covid-19 situation, Kotak General Insurance is trying to prepare rapidly, test critical paths and scale up




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Covid-19 to give rise to non-contact biometric attendance

As offices start to reopen, Biometric systems could pose a big threat to safety from coronavirus.




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How CIOs can be battle-ready during the Covid-19 crisis

CIOs should focus their energy on the resolution of issues that arise as almost 100% of their workforce work remotely and building resistance towards the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.




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Covid-19 Heroes: Pidilite focuses on upskilling to emerge stronger from Covid-19

The makers of Fevicol are leveraging this time to retrain staff and gear up technology infrastructure for the post-Covid world.




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Role of a CIO post Covid-19 pandemic

CIOs role is set to evolve post-Covid-19 with new demands coming in from the business. Here’s how they can be prepared.




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Covid-19 fear: Electronics brands Samsung, Apple let offline stores sell online

Samsung has created an ecommerce platform in partnership with Benow.in along with mobile phone retailers across the country that will allow them to sell and deliver smartphones. Offline stores are also being used to fulfil orders placed on Samsung’s e-store for television and appliances.




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COVID-19: Indian Internet infra not prepared for shift to online teaching-learning, says QS report

The report titled "COVID-19: A wake up call for telecom service providers" is based on a survey conducted by QS I Guage, which rates colleges and universities in India with complete operational control held by London-based QS.




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Covid-19 Impact: Top retailers urge government to open non-essential retail to reset the Indian economy

The Clothing Manufacturers Association of India (CMAI), said only 8% of its members have funds to pay salary next month since 90% of all apparel retail is still at physical stores.




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Covid-19 impact: Jeff Bezos takes back the wheel at Amazon

After years of working almost exclusively on long-term projects and pushing day-to-day management to his deputies, Bezos, 56, has turned back to the here-and-now problems facing Amazon, the company said, as the giant retailer grapples with a surge of demand, labor unrest and supply chain challenges brought on by the coronavirus.




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Google purged 2.7 billion bad ads in 2019, Covid-19 fake ads next target

Google blocked and removed 2.7 billion bad ads more than 5,000 bad ads per minute and suspended nearly 1 million advertiser accounts for policy violations, the company announced on Thursday.




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Covid-19 has wiped out the goodnight sleep of a CISO

The stratospheric rise in phishing and identity attacks since the beginning of the Coronavirus pandemic is give sleepless nights to CISOs across the world making them the Digital Security Warriors




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Indian government asks social media firms to curb Covid-19 fake news

The government asked social media platforms to start awareness campaigns, remove misinformation from the platform and promote authentic information




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Facebook expands Community Help feature for COVID-19 efforts

Facebook has announced to expand its Community Help feature as part of COVID-19 efforts which will help people offer help to those affected by the new coronavirus pandemic, as well as donate to nonprofit organisations.




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Facebook displayed warnings on 40 million posts related to Covid-19 in March

Facebook said that when people saw those warning labels, 95% of the time they did not go on to view the original content. To date, the social media giant also removed hundreds of thousands of pieces of misinformation that could lead to imminent physical harm.




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Twitter lets developers study real time COVID-19 conversations

Twitter has introduced an update to its API platform to allow developers and researchers to study crucial public conversations around COVID-19 in real time.




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Data-crunching investments by insurers rise 20% in 2019

The driving force is the challenges that are emerging due to substandard and unstructured data




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B-schools turn a page with COVID-19

At IIM-A, starting this summer, the macroeconomics course will include examples like the Supreme Court’s capping of Covid-19 testing to discuss price controls and infection transmission.




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Covid-19 impact may set India's smartphone production back by four years

India's contribution to global smartphone production had jumped to 16 per cent in 2019 from 9 per cent in 2016, as several handset makers cut down output in China or moved out due to the US-China trade war and received heavy incentives by the Indian government to beef up manufacturing in the country.




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PC demand surges but shipments fall 8% due to a supply chain hit by COVID-19: Canalys

Strict lockdown measures around the world has caused severe delays and logistical issues leading to worldwide PC shipments falling by 8%, technology market analyst firm Canalys said.




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India phone exports more than doubled on-year to 3.6 crore units in FY19-20

“We have attracted interest from companies such global giant Samsung and Chinese OEMs in the mobile phone segment coupled with the right set of incentives for them,” said Faisal Kawoosa, founder and chief analyst, TechArc. “The mass domestic market, which was underpenetrated for long, has provided an opportunity to these players to address local demand as well as set-up base here,” he added.




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Covid-19 to bring India software market growth down to 4.1%

The decline in growth rate is likely because enterprises relook at their buying decisions owing to increased focus on profitability, said IDC's report.




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Technology services and its changing role during the Covid-19 era

Since ‘virtual’ is the new normal, get imaginative on how you work, how you stay in touch and use technology to make this unique experience also a memorable on.




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UK offers virtual cyber school for teens in Covid-19 lockdown

The UK government on Friday launched a new virtual cyber security school aimed at encouraging teenagers to learn new skills while stuck at home during the coronavirus pandemic lockdown. As part of the free lessons, youngsters can learn how to crack codes, fix security flaws and dissect criminals' digital trails while progressing through a game as a cyber agent.




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How Covid 19 dashboards are helping people make sense of the pandemic

People are actively seeking information on Covid-19’s impact — to stay updated and avoid panic.




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Technologies that can enable a smooth remote working environment during Covid19

Thanks to the intervention of Cloud-based tech tools, professionals no longer need to visit their offices to engage in business transactions.




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Covid-19: Cloud native enterprises see an edge over competitors

While the cloud was seen as a good technology to adopt until some time ago, it has now become a must in order to navigate through these challenging times. Companies that are 100 percent on the cloud have been able to transition far more rapidly than others, making them more agile than their peers.