Sunnyvale, California-based storage and data management company NetApp opened a Global Center of Excellence in Bangalore. The 12,000-square-foot data center and engineering laboratory on a 15-acre campus incorporates one million square feet of work space. The new facility incorporates the company's first startup accelerator program called "Escape Velocity" that will...
Ola Claims 75% Market Share of India's Urban Taxi Services
India's Bangalore-based transport aggregator Ola said that because of its India-specific innovations such as offline booking and local language apps, the company "effectively holds over three-fourth market share", reports the Economic Times. COO Pranay Jivrajka told the Press Trust of India that the focus of a business needs to be...
Apple Requests India for Manufacturing, Labelling Concessions
Serious about manufacturing iPhones in India, Cupertino, California-based Apple has requested concessions from India's government. These are exemptions from the country's product labeling regulations, and tax relief. The company has filed a formal request to India's Department of Revenue and Department of Electronics and Information Technology requesting to be excluded from the...
AMD to Grow R&D Team in India
In an interview with India's Economic Times, Sunnyvale, California-based semiconductor company AMD's chief technology officer Mark Papermaster discussed the contribution of the company's R&D facilities in India. These R&D centers are located in Hyderabad and Bangalore, housing over 1,000 of its 6,000-strong global tech team. Excerpts of the interview: On...
Semtech Partners with Tata Communications
Camarillo, California-based Semtech Corporation has teamed up with Tata Communications to launch India’s first applications center to facilitate LoRa, or long range networks, technology in Mumbai. The Economic Times reports a joint statement by the two companies which said that this center will allow enterprise customers and Internet of Things ...
Juniper Announces $1 Billion Investment in India Unit
Rami Rahim, CEO of Sunnyvale, California-based Juniper Networks Inc., announced an investment of $1 billion over the next five years in its India unit. The money will be spent on augmenting research and development (40% of its R&D resources are in India), sales and marketing functions, and other business operations,...