'When AI comes in, coders in Bangalore or Hyderabad will lose their jobs.'
'More and more people from the middle class will become self-employed gig workers mostly working from home, rather than as office workers with salary, promotion, bonuses, etc.'
'Our goal here is to become a small catalyst in humanity's journey of conscious evolution. To lead us into the Post-Darwin era.'
Cheaper ripoffs was how China powered its way as an economic superpower but hitherto the tech realm had remained out of bounds. With DeepSeek's AI model the West, it seemed, was about to lose its competitive edge in cutting edge generative AI technology. And this is what is causing deep furrows in the forehead of tech titans in Silicon Valley.
'The choice is clear: We either embrace this transformation and cement our global leadership, or hesitate, lose ground, and fade into irrelevance.'
Sriram Krishnan, an Indian-origin technology executive, is "helping out" Twitter's new owner Elon Musk as he revamps the social media giant following its acquisition by the billionaire entrepreneur.
Facebook on Thursday announced that it has shut down Free Basics in India.
Andreessen made a objectionable tweet about India after Trai ruled against Facebook's free but restricted internet programme
The comments drew sharp criticism from netizens with some calling Facebook's Free Basics plan as Internet colonialism.
Facebook is fast learning the limits of tech exceptionalism.
'Any entrepreneur who wants to create companies on blockchain will have to move outside India.' 'A ban will also wipe out the entire asset investing class that has built up in India.'
Online marketplace eBay has entered into an agreement with an investor group led by private equity firm Silver Lake for sale of 65 per cent stake in its Skype communications unit for $1.9 billion.
This puts an end to Facebook's Free Basics and Airtel's zero rating plans in India.
Yuri Milner is focussing on on consumer-driven Internet start-ups.
Facebook Inc founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg will sell 41.4 million shares worth about $2.3 billion to pay a tax bill, as part of an offering by the social network of 70 million Class A common shares.
Ratan Tata has invested an undisclosed amount in startup research platform Tracxn.
Like the other platforms, the Clubhouse will have more users in India than anywhere else because of the interest we have in knowing what others are doing and in letting others know about our activities, predicts T P Sreenivasan.
Technology, which was responsible for creating the new-age digital consumer issue for enterprises, also acts as a solution to the problem, says Karthick Viswanathan.
Start-ups have their own sub-cultures their language and ways of working.
No, I haven't made a mistake in the title. The age-old saying, 'Winners don't do different things. They do things differently,' made famous by Shiv Khera in his book You Can Win, is, in my opinion, wrong.
November 12 marks 25 years of the beginning of the World Wide Web. Shivanand Kanavi gives us the story of how it all began.
Many app makers have stopped work on their projects or abandoned them, mostly because of the lack of customers or limitations of the device.
'Big countries do not agree on every set of issues.' 'Look, one of the differences in the relationship is that when we do not agree, we are sitting down and talking to each other.'
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