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  Anjali Venugopalan Sreeradha Basu Correspondent, ET Indian technology professionals are now getting more oers for remote work from global employers. According to several companies which help hire high-prole tech talent, demand has gone up twothree times from pre-pandemic levels, as more companies are now convinced that work-from-home indeed works. Hiring companies like Instahyre, Interviewbit, Rocket, Techfynder, CIEL HR Services and Pesto Tech said rms from the US, Europe, Australia and the Middle East were now hiring, especially for contract roles. Hiring sentiment was dull in March, April and even May due to lockdowns in place globally, but it has since picked up. The number of applications and people hired have more than trebled in JulySeptember (yes) compared with the previous quarter, said Sarbojit Mallick, a cofounder of Instahyre. Instahyre works with 8,700 companies now, up from 5,300 last year, and its revenue has increased threefour times, he said. Most of the add...

 By Anniek Bao ET China's top-level push to nurture semiconductor champions as it reels from an unfolding tech war with the U.S. has not gone to plan. The giant cash splash has been diluted among thousands of small companies without the talent or know-how to compete with global giants, according to Wang Lin, a partner at venture investment rm Walden International Inc. China’s drive to become more self-suicient in the tiny processors that power everything from smartphones to self-driving cars has been at the center of its tech rivalry with the U.S. But breaking into this technology-intensive industry typically requires billions of dollars in investment, strong technical expertise and plenty of highly skilled sta. As the government is incentivizing chip designers and manufacturers with generous state subsidies and favorable policies, more than 13,000 Chinese companies have registered as semiconductor-related businesses in the rst nine months this year, according to data from corporat...

 Hindustan Times Dated: November 18, 2020 By: Rajeev Jayaswal Addressing the third Bloomberg New Economy Forum, the PM said, “Technology is an important enabler in the journey of a smart, prosperous and resilient city. Technology has managed a city efficiently and built connected communities. We are looking at a future where a major chunk of education, healthcare, shopping, food experiences may happen online. Our cities need to be ready for the convergence of the physical and digital world.” Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said Indian cities need to be ready for the convergence of the physical and digital world where a major chunk of education, healthcare, shopping, food experiences will happen online, while inviting investors to participate in the transformation of Indian cities with a project pipeline of $30 billion, including projects worth $20 billion under implementation. Addressing the third Bloomberg New Economy Forum, the PM said, “Technology is an important enabler...

The Telegraph Online, 11.11.2020 Amazon.com Inc said on Tuesday it had taken down listings of products such as briefs and doormats with Hindu sacred symbols, which were being sold on its overseas websites, following a furore on social media in India. #BoycottAmazon was one of the top trending topics on Twitter in India, with users sharing screenshots of Amazon listings of doormats and underwear emblazoned with insignia, including Ganesha. “We are taking down the products in question,” Amazon said in a statement. Link- https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/amazon-bows-to-anger/cid/1797111

The Indian Express October 22,2020 The United States Department of Justice (DoJ)  sued Google on Tuesday , alleging that the company had abused its dominant position in a way that had harmed its competitors as well as customers. Eleven US states have joined the DoJ in the anti-trust lawsuit against Google “for unlawfully maintaining a monopoly in general search services and search advertising”. What is the lawsuit about? In his statement announcing the initiation of the lawsuit, Deputy Attorney General of the DoJ Jeffrey A Rosen said the main concerns are business practices that may have led to “massive concentrations of economic power” in a few companies such as Google. The lawsuit will focus on Google as it “is the gateway to the Internet and a search advertising behemoth”. “Google achieved some success in its early years, and no one begrudges that, but, as the antitrust complaint filed today explains, it has maintained its monopoly power through exclusionary practices ...

Moneycontrol October 21,2020 Sweden is banning Chinese tech companies Huawei and ZTE from building new high-speed wireless networks after a top security official called China one of the country's biggest threats. The Swedish telecom regulator said Tuesday that four wireless carriers bidding for frequencies in an upcoming spectrum auction for the new 5G networks must not use equipment from Huawei or ZTE. Wireless carriers that plan to use existing telecommunications infrastructure for 5G networks must also rip out any existing gear from Huawei or ZTE Wireless, the Swedish Post and Telecom Authority said. The agency said the conditions were based on assessments by the Swedish military and security service. Huawei said it was surprised and disappointed by the rules. Sweden is the latest country to prohibit Huawei from playing a role in building 5G networks and its decision is likely to add to tensions between the Chinese government and Western powers. U.S. officials have waged an inte...

The Telegraph  Date: Aug 07, 2020 PTI,  Bharti Airtel and Amazon Web Services have joined hands to develop the telecom firm’s cloud business, allowing it to offer a comprehensive set of solutions to large businesses and small and medium enterprises (SME) in India.  Airtel has over 2,500 large companies as its clients and more than a million emerging businesses with its product portfolio, including Airtel Cloud, a multi-cloud product and solutions business.  “The strategic collaboration between Airtel and AWS will offer a suite of cloud solutions to drive the digital transformation of businesses in India,” Harmeen Mehta, chief information officer and head –— cloud and security business, Bharti Airtel, said in a virtual conference. Under the partnership, “Airtel Cloud will build an AWS Cloud Practice supported by AWS Professional Services, as well as develop differentiated Airtel Cloud products and capabilities, leveraging AWS services, Airtel’s data centre capabilitie...

LiveMint Date: July 30, 2020 Prasid Banerjee  Growing anti-China sentiments in India and the government ban on Chinese apps seems to have helped global companies more than those from India. According to app analytics firm Sensor Tower, only one of the top three apps that gained from the ban on TikTok was Indian—Roposo. The other two were New York-based Dubsmash and short-video app Zili, which is owned by Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi. The number of installations of Zili app surged nearly threefold in the three weeks following the June-end ban on TikTok, rising to 8 million installs from about 3 million in the prior period. Installations of Chinese Snack Video rose to a lifetime high of 23.5 million downloads from India and ranked No.1 on Apple’s App Store in the week of 13 July. Both Zili and Snack Video may face bans in the future, according to recent reports, but they are fully operational in the country right now. A survey by influencer marketing firm, ...

MEDIUM August 22, 2019 Data privacy is a hot topic right now. Scandals such as Cambridge Analytica, where the personal data of 87 million Facebook users were collected by the British consulting firm without permission, angered and dismayed in equal measure. The Netflix documentary The Great Hack provides an excellent portrayal of events. The incident demonstrated to us all how powerless we users are on the vast platforms of the internet’s largest corporations. But there are positives we can take from such incidents. It has propelled data privacy to the forefront of the public consciousness, forcing the average user to think more deeply about what they share online, how their data is used by the platforms, and the lack of control we really have over our data. Facebook is not alone in capturing the headlines for all the wrong reasons, Google has also been dragged into the mire. In late 2018 it was reported that third-party Gmail app developers could access users emails and as...

The Indian Express June 21, 2020 The government has clarified that the order to remove Chinese apps is fake and no such instructions have been given to Google or Apple.A message has been circulating on social media claiming that the National Informatics Centre under the Ministry of Electronics and IT has issued an order instructing the restriction of certain Chinese apps on Google Play Store and Apple App Store. The government has clarified that the order is fake and no such instructions have been given to Google or Apple. The message says that the government of India has directed the regional executive and representatives of Google and Apple to “restrict the functioning of Chinese applications from the respective stores with immediate effect”. These apps include TikTok, VMate, Vigo Video, LiveMe, Bigo Live, Beauty Plus, CamScanner, Club Factory, Shein, Romwe, and AppLock. The list also includes games like Mobile Legends, Clash of Kings, and Gale of Sulta...

The Hindu June 21, 2020 Posted by Prashasti Awasthi The Centre has asked people to be wary of any site trying to mimic official communication on coronavirus data in order to steal personal data and financial information, in what would be a massive phishing attack, an NDTV report said. The attack will begin today and the suspicious email site could be ncov2019@ gov.in , the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team or CERT-In tweeted. CERT-In, under the Information Technology Ministry, works to protect Indians from cyber threats. "The phishing campaign is expected to use malicious emails under the pretext of local authorities in charge of dispensing government-funded Covid-19 support initiatives. Such emails are designed to drive recipients towards fake websites, where they are deceived into downloading malicious files or entering personal and financial information," CERT-In said in a statement cited in the NDTV report. Phishing attacks are attacks where malicious ...

Inc June 05, 2020 Take a look at the back of the box from which you unpacked your  iPhone  and you'll see this: "Designed by Apple in California Assembled in China." Reading this tagline might trigger a vision in your mind of  Jonathan Ive , Apple's legendary chief design officer, dropping the drawings and technical specs for the next-generation iPhone into a (highly secure) shared folder that its low-cost suppliers in  China  can access as they manufacture and assemble the product by the millions. But as Apple CEO Tim Cook recently pointed out, this picture wouldn't tell the entire story of how an iPhone actually gets made today, or why Apple prefers to make them in China. At the Fortune Global Forum in Guangzhou in early December (my firm, McKinsey & Company, was the Knowledge Partner), I listened to Cook as he explained why Apple continues to favor China as its central base for manufacturing iPhones: The number one reason why we like t...

Tribune May 26, 2020 LONDON:  Prime Minister Boris Johnson is planning to reduce Chinese telecoms equipment maker Huawei Technologies Co Ltd’s involvement in Britain’s 5G network in the wake of the coronavirus crisis, the Daily Telegraph newspaper reported. Johnson has asked officials to make plans to reduce China’s involvement in British infrastructure to zero by 2023, the newspaper reported late on Friday. Johnson is expected to use less reliance on China as a means to boost trade talks with US President Donald Trump in the aftermath of Britain’s departure from the European Union, according to the newspaper. Downing Street declined to comment. Huawei did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Earlier on Friday, The Times reported that Johnson has instructed civil servants to make plans to end Britain’s reliance on China for vital medical supplies and other strategic imports. Beijing is being criticised for its handling of the coronavirus...

Hindustan Time February 28, 2020 US professor charged with hiding link to China amid efforts to halt unauthorised technology transfer US authorities on Thursday charged a professor at a university in Tennessee with fraud and false statements, saying he hid his link to a Chinese institution while taking funding from NASA. In the latest case related to US efforts to halt alleged unauthorized technology transfers to China, the Justice Department said Anming Hu hid his ties to Beijing University of Technology while he taught and did research at University of Tennessee, Knoxville. The indictment said that from 2016, Hu “engaged in a scheme to defraud the National Aeronautics and Space Administration” by hiding his affiliation with the Beijing university. “Federal law prohibits NASA from using appropriated funds on projects in collaboration with China or Chinese universities,” the Justice Department said in a statement. Hu was arrested Thursday and charged with...