It has been one of the world’s foremost financial hubs. But Singapore is also now becoming increasingly a major technology hub. The world’s biggest technology companies, including US and Chinese ones, are expanding or establishing bases there. That’s part of a broader foreign investment influx, which broke a 12-year record last year, encouraged by Singapore’s wealth, location, and business-friendly reputation. The country itself is on a massive digitalisation drive.

Publication: The Times of India

IBM will allow over-the-cloud access to its quantum systems for top-tier institutions of India to accelerate advanced training and research in quantum computing. The faculty and students of Indian Institute of Science Education & Research (IISER) – Pune, IISER – Thiruvananthapuram, Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) – Jodhpur, IIT- Kanpur, IIT – Kharagpur, IIT – Madras, Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) Kolkata, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Delhi, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) Mumbai and the University of Calcutta will be able to access IBM quantum systems, quantum learning resources and, quantum tools over IBM Cloud for education and research purposes.

Publication: Enterprise IT World

72 per cent of the revenue of Indian firms (India Inc) is derived from the domestic / home market – the sixth highest in percentage terms in the emerging market (EM) and the Asian region, said a recent report by Morgan Stanley. “Taiwanese companies, in particular, generate 27 per cent of their revenue from the US market, largely because Taiwan is an important part of the semiconductor supply chain and serves as major suppliers for Apple. Russian companies are the most exposed to developed Europe – this mainly reflects its Energy and Materials sectors.

Publication: Hindi Business Standard

Qualcomm’s Durga Malladi says innovation attempts will inevitably be riddled with failures. You try and the odds are it will not work. “The key to developing an innovative mindset is to keep trying as you always learn something from failure,” says the senior vice president of engineering at the world’s largest provider of smartphone chips. Malladi has to date filed over 500 patents in the US.

Publication: The Times of India

The software provides storage infrastructure capabilities, which is the foundation for hybrid cloud, and also simplifies management of unstructured data. Managing data across multiple clouds is particularly complex. “Everyone talks about cloud these days. But cloud isn’t just AWS, Azure or IBM cloud. It’s also a mindset that says it doesn’t cost as much to use computer resources and it doesn’t require specialised skills to use it. And that’s what NetApp enables with ONTAP,” says Ravi Chhabria, MD of NetApp India.

Publication: The Times of India

They are not able to do core jobs properly, and then if you say to upskill on AI, ML or data science, that would just add to the burden. Upskilling is important and organisations can’t wait for the pandemic to get over, but we have been very flexible and employee-centric to that extent. Everyone needs upskilling right now. We have taken initiative around creating industry-grade certification courses. We work with customers, partners such as HCL, Infosys and TCS, and help them in upskilling. We are also working with the academia, government and Nasscom.

Publication: The Hindu BusinessLine