The Narendra Modi government`s plans for Digital India initiatives are refreshing and exciting and Google is ready to help it out in this project, its Chief Internet Evangelist Vinton G. Cerf said Tuesday. “The aspirations of the new Indian government and its initiatives of Digital India are very refreshing and exciting,” he said in his…
The global Internet and mobile telecast rights of Indian Premier League (IPL), the popular Twenty20 cricket tournament organized by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), are up for grabs for the next four years beginning this year, as the board’s contract with Times Internet Ltd comes to an end.
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The vocabulary is changing and becoming more loaded. Print and TV journalists are now called legacy media. As opposed to being part of the expanding digital dawn. New digital properties emerged over the last year and claimed mind space. Indian start-ups of international media sites such as Quartz, Scroll and The Huffington Post, India Today’s DailyO.in, Raghav…
Successful companies are ones that keep transforming and re-inventing themselves. Today, an increasingly digital world – replete with smart devices, savvy consumers, pervasive media, and ubiquitous data – is brimming with opportunities for companies and spurring them to adopt digital business models to succeed. Customers are demanding newer channels of engagement, employees want to use…
To leverage the global competency of the information and communication technologies (ICT) and ensure a sustained growth plan, the Indian IT industry has urged the government to facilitate a favourable business ecosystem for entrepreneurs and small, medium and large enterprises.
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With two back-to-back investments in India within two months, US media and entertainment behemoth News Corpseems to have intensified its focus on the country’s digital landscape. News Corp acquired a 25 per cent stake in digital real estate firm PropTiger.com for $30 million in the last week of November 2014. The news was followed by the acquisition of…
With two back-to-back investments in India within two months, US media and entertainment behemoth News Corpseems to have intensified its focus on the country’s digital landscape. News Corp acquired a 25 per cent stake in digital real estate firm PropTiger.com for $30 million in the last week of November 2014. The news was followed by the acquisition of…
Google’s chief internet evangelist Vinton Cerf has discussed with communications minister Ravi Shankar Prasad the role the US-based tech giant can play in the government’s Digital India programme.
They also discussed ways to increase internet penetration in the country.
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Under the ambitious Digital India Initiative, University Grants Commission (UGC) would map the universities across the country, under which it would look into the internet connectivity options at a particular university in the nation. In a letter by UGC secretary Jaspal Sandhu, the universities are asked to submit their details regarding the matter within the…
Panchayat offices in Idukki will soon have high-speed broadband connectivity, enabling citizens to access a wide range of e-services and e-applications and providing local bodies with a technology tool for development planning. The district is set to be the first one in Kerala to link grama panchayats under the National Optical Fibre Network (NOFN) project.…