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Industry News: Information and Communications
Big Data Revenues To Reach $260 Bn in 2022: IDCedit
Big data and business analytics revenues will total $166 billion globally this year, an increase of 11.7% over 2017, according to a new update to the Worldwide Semiannual Big Data and Analytics Spending Guide from International Data Corporation (IDC). The forecasts worldwide revenues for big data and business analytics (BDA) solutions will reach $260 billion in 2022 with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 11.9% over the 2017-2022 forecast period.
Big Data5 Emerging technology trends to blur the bridge of human & machine: Gartneredit
Emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI), play a critical role in enabling companies to be ubiquitous, always available, and connected to business ecosystems to survive in the near future.
Artificial IntelligenceIoTNational Digital Communications Policy: Eureka moment for ‘digital thought’edit
India’s digital sector has been projected to reach $1 trillion and create 75 million jobs by 2025, which will lead to an inclusive, empowering and transformative impact.
NDCP 2018AI will be everywhere in next 10 years: Gartneredit
The rate at which deployment of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology is increasing, it will be widely available to the masses in the next 10 years, says a new Gartner report. Movements and trends like Cloud computing, the “maker” community and open source will eventually propel AI into everyone’s hands, said the report titled “Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies, 2018” on Tuesday.
Artificial IntelligenceDistinguishing between AI and automationedit
To avoid ambiguity while choosing a relevant tech solution for the talent challenge HR is trying to solve, being able to differentiate between automation and AI is imperative. The clarity helps HR in leveraging AI & Automation for superior performance.
AIAutomationIndustry News: Future of Mobility
Government wants entrepreneurs to develop cheaper and more efficient e-carsedit
State-owned Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL) has thrown open a challenge for entrepreneurs and start-ups to develop electric cars that are more efficient in terms of performance and cheaper than what it had sought in a global e-cars tender it floated last year.
Electric VehiclesGovt plans big push for e-car charging pointsedit
The government has drawn up plans to subsidise the setting up of e-vehicle charging infrastructure under a policy, to be unveiled in the coming days, Power Secretary A K Bhalla disclosed here on Tuesday. The top bureaucrat said it is a chicken and egg story because charging stations would not be set up without enough evehicles and e-vehicles sales would not pick up unless there are enough facilities to charge these vehicles
EV ChargingIndustry News: Education
5 platforms helping entrepreneurs to be future-readyedit
In a country with a relatively greater proportion of younger people who aspire to be an entrepreneur, companies are actively working to create ease in the jumbling lives of youth. The millennial generation is so hard at work that they always feed on platform that can add comfort and structure to their future planning’s.
ReskillingWhen do we end the arms race in higher education?edit
Higher education is one of the greatest successes of the socialist state. Due to government subsidies and support, what was once considered to be a privilege is now a middle-class entitlement. India has seen more graduates emerge in the past 25 years than in the 500 years before that.
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Wind tariffs rise in NTPC’s 1200 mw auctionedit
In the first wind project auction in four months, winning tariffs reached Rs 2.77-2.83 per unit. The last auction in April, carried out by Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI), had seen prices of Rs 2.51-2.52. Industry insiders ascribed the increase to higher finance cost and limited availability of transmission facilities.
Renewable Energy
Need to cut energy demand of urban areasedit
Fortunately, India has moved away from its preoccupation with the distribution of the burden of the measures to control global warming. There has been a growing recognition in official circles over the last decade that India needs more than indignation that the developed countries, who contributed the most to global warming, are now expecting others to sacrifice their development to bring climate change under control.
Energy DemandWhy small renewable energy firms are fighting a consolidation waveedit
Small to mid-sized renewable energy companies in India are starting to look like attractive takeover targets as lenders and investors withhold funds, worried by the stiff competition, weak bond markets, low tariffs and high debt besetting the sector.
Renewable Energy