VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

Wipro has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Viteos Group, a BPaaS provider for the Alternative Investment Management Industry for a purchase consideration of US$130 million. “We welcome Viteos employees to the Wipro family. We are excited to join hands with Viteos and expand our Capital markets portfolio in fund accounting services and enhance our Business Process Services capabilities. Viteos brings with it experienced leadership, domain expertise and unique BPaaS capability. We believe we will be able to leverage synergies to offer platform-based transformational services to our customers and continue to dominate the Capital markets outsourcing space,” said Nagendra Bandaru, Senior Vice-President & Head – Business Process Services, Wipro Limited... Read more

Avaya has strengthened its commitment to India’s digital transformation goals through the Avaya University Outreach Programme, a series of initiatives with leading educational institutes in Pune. Avaya is working with four colleges to help develop training in key technologies and help deliver the skilled workforce India requires. More than 70 graduating engineers attended the first elective course at the Cummins College of Engineering for Women, one of four colleges with which Avaya is collaborating on the programme. The Avaya curriculum is a one-semester elective course, developed by Avaya in collaboration with the Colleges of Engineering. The course covers key trends in emerging technologies and telecommunication, including digital and IP telephony, VoIP protocols, unified communications and contact centre applications and provides new engineers with the skills to develop their careers and further India’s digital transformation efforts. Avaya plans to make the course available

Snapdeal along with Microsoft has organized a two-day Hackathon. The collaboration saw engineers from both Snapdeal and Microsoft jointly develop technology concepts and solutions aiming to provide an enhanced seller experience on the online marketplace. The Hackathon focussed on identifying real-life business needs and developing in-house solutions to address these requirements. Two days of continuous coding from the participating Snapdeal and Microsoft engineers led to the development of winning ideas like dynamic machine-based personal assistant for sellers and message-based listing modifiers to ease the online selling process... Read more

Dell has announced that its seventh annual Dell Women’s Entrepreneur Network Summit for female entrepreneurs globally, will be convened on June 27 & 28, 2016 in Cape Town, South Africa. The Summit will bring together more than 150 of the top female entrepreneurs, business leaders, media and Dell partners around the theme of “Innovating for a Future-Ready World”. “The role women play in driving the global economy is becoming more and more foundational to the health and well-being of our world. Dell Women’s Entrepreneur Network is all about fostering relationships and providing gateways to the resources women founders need to succeed. There is no better place than South Africa, a burgeoning centre of entrepreneurship, to have these important conversations,” said Karen Quintos, Chief Marketing Officer, Dell... Read more

Intex Aqua Star 4G by Intex Technologies will sport a new iData Saver feature. This feature is able to reduce data consumption by up to 50% on images, webpages and streaming, especially with image-heavy audio and video apps, such as Instagram, YouTube, Gaana and Saavn. Intex is the first Indian brand to integrate Opera Max’s functionality into its operating system for the 4G-enabled device. The iData Saver is powered by Opera Max, a data-management and data-saving app developed by Opera. Once the iData Saver feature is switched on, the new Aqua Star 4G will automatically start compressing the data consumed by most apps. Users will be able to save data by controlling those apps that consume mobile data, allowing them to get more from their data plans. With Opera Max, users can easily track the data consumed by individual apps, giving them better insight about – and control of – their data usage... Read more