sSan Jose, CA-headquartered Cisco Systems signed a memorandum of understanding with the IT Mission of India's India's southern Kerala state to bring the benefits of digital technology and data science to the farming community in the state. The first phase of this initiative will be rolled out in 15 panchayats...
Twitter Localizes for India
To encourage more conversations, San Francisco, CA-based Twitter redesigned its website in India and backed it by an improved translation engine to help users localize content in seven Indian languages: Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi, Urdu, Tamil, Bengali and Kannada. "We want people in India to be able to find tweets and...
Walmart Labs Acquires Two Tech Startups in India
Walmart Labs, the technology arm of Bentonville, Arkansas-headquartered Walmart, acquired two startups based in India to strengthen its customer service systems. Bangalore-based FloCare, a health tech firm, is one of them. It builds products and technologies that enables seniors to access affordable and scalable healthcare services. The company, co-founded by a...
Dell Delivers Safety and Smart Traffic to India
Dell Technologies has partnered with Noida India-based Vehant Technologies, Santa Clara CA-based Graymatics, and Barcelona, Spain headquartered Wordsensing to deliver smart city solutions in the areas of ‘Safe City’ and ‘Intelligent Traffic Management’ in India. Vehant, a manufacturer of Under Vehicle Scanning Systems provides solutions in security, surveillance, and monitoring....
Y-Combinator Portfolio Co Guarantees a Job Offer
Chennai, India-based Skill-Lync, an online education company is developing a service that helps India’s estimated 1.5 million mechanical engineering graduates to further develop their education into the skill sets that employers in the U.S. seek. The company is part of the Y Combinator, a startup fund based in Mountain View,...
ThoughtSpot Invests Additional $25 Million in India Facility
ThoughtSpot, a Search- and AI-driven Analytics platform headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA, announced plans to invest an additional $25 million in its engineering center in Bangalore, India. The funds will be used to expand its platform as also begin business operations in India to bring augmented analytics to enterprises throughout the...