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Shadma Shaikh

The big-muscle anti-piracy tactics of Microsoft, Adobe, Autodesk in India

Early in 2015, Nakul Kumar, co-founder of Cashify, an online marketplace, received an email from a Microsoft anti-piracy team representative. …

Companies
June 28, 2018

Anupam Manur

How to fix competition in a market owned by Google, Facebook, Amazon and other digital platforms

Whether we like it or not, there is a certain inevitability about the dominance of technology companies in our lives. …

Companies
March 22, 2018

Sunny Sen

India moves to address AI talent supply gap, gets a leg-up from Google, Microsoft, Intel

Early in November, a Japanese delegation visited the Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati campus. The team of five were looking …

Future
January 18, 2018

Sunny Sen

Late to the party, Google’s cloud leans on machine learning and AI to capture enterprise market

To get a perspective on Google’s cloud services in India, talking to Debashis Roy, vice president-IT of CESC, the Sanjiv Goenka-owned …

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June 8, 2017

Jayadevan PK

Open source supporters are angry with the Indian government. Here’s why

Open source supporters are opposed to the Indian government’s move to work with Microsoft to build an ambitious online self-learning platform for millions of students.

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November 4, 2016

S Prabhakaran

GNU Project, the free software movement by Richard Stallman, turns 33

Dr. Richard Stallman is the father of Free software movement. He is the founder of Free Software Movement and campaigns against propriety softwares and patents

Future
September 27, 2016

Pranav Dixit

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella just tried to charm the Indian government that is obsessed with open-source software

Satya Nadella stands on stage wearing black pants, black shoes, a black blazer, and a shirt so white it reflects …

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May 30, 2016

Pankaj Mishra

Apple’s love affair with India makes it the new Microsoft in more ways than one

Apple used to create markets. It never chased them. Apple never gave a hoot about China and India. It never …

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May 18, 2016