Sunnyvale, CA-based LinkedIn announced the roll out of its LinkedIn Lite app to Android users in India. Akshay Kothari, Head, LinkedIn India, said, "We have now been able to take all the LinkedIn experience and package it into an app that is less than 1 megabyte. This app will soon be...
NetApp Inaugurates a Global Center of Excellence in India
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...
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...
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,...