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UBS, a Global firm providing financial services, has appointed Uday Odedra as India Country Head, effective 1 January 2021, in addition to his current role as Head Group Technology in the APAC region. Harald Egger, Head Group Corporate Services and Country Head India has been nominated as Chairman for UBS India, a newly-created role reflecting…
School communication platform, Uolo has raised Rs. 20 Crore in a pre-Series A round led by Omidyar Network India and Blume Ventures, an early stage venture fund. The company plans to invest the funds to expand its team across technology and operations and improve its offerings for school administration and students. Commenting on this…
Adobe has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Workfront, the work management platform for marketers, for $1.5 billion (subject to customary purchase price adjustments). Adobe Experience Cloud, a solution for content and commerce, customer journey management, and customer data and insights along with Workfront is expected to bring efficiency, collaboration, and productivity gains to…
Grocery retail Company based in Jaipur, Kirana King has raised Rs 7 crore from Rajasthan Venture Capital Fund, also based in Jaipur. The firm plans to expand its retail network, Manpower, enhancement & development of Technology with the help of the funds raised. Kirana King also aims to expand its operations in various parts of…
Pharmaceutical Company – Cadila Pharma has appointed Dr Sanjeev Dixit as the Global President – Human Capital Management to strengthen its Human Resources function. With a diversified experience of strategic corporate HR & CHRO experience from varied industries and geographies, Dr Dixit is a global HR leader, culture coach, and a published author of ‘Plan…
Aetna India has announced the appointment of Anurag Khosla as the new Chief Executive Officer to accelerate its business in India. He will oversee all aspects of India business which caters to over 4 million members. Prior to Aetna India, Anurag managed Optum Global Solutions (OGS), the global technology and IT services business of the…
NeoBenk has announced the launch of its Global Partners Program that will help accelerate global partnerships and provide new growth opportunities for exchanges, banks, and financial institutions. As per the announcement – The Program is free to join and targets the currency exchanges, money service businesses, banks, and financial institutions. It enables them to increase…
Mumbai-based Edtech firm upGrad has increased its headcount From 500 to 2000 during the pandemic in order to meet the growing demand. Consequently, the firm has to re-look and restructure its people’s policies. The edtech major has extended Work From Home till June 2021 as it focuses on a healthier work-life balance and holistic well-being…
Enterprise solutions provider – Marg ERP has partnered with Paytm to facilitate seamless transactions for MSMEs with the help of new integrated payments solution called MargPay developed by MARG ERP Limited. MargPay will enable MSMEs to keep track of all their receipts and payments made through multiple payment methods thus helping them to reconcile payments…
Cigniti Technologies, Independent Software Testing & Quality Engineering Services Company has been selected as a Strategic Quality Engineering Partner of Toyota Motor Corporation Australia (TMCA). Cigniti to help TMCA, a subsidiary of Toyota Motor Corporation, accelerate its Quality & Digital transformation journey over the next 3 years. Srikanth Chakkilam, CEO at Cigniti Technologies, said –…
A digital customer experience (CX) innovator that designs, builds and delivers next-generation solutions for global and disruptive brands, TELUS International, has entered into an agreement to acquire Lionbridge AI, a global provider of crowd-based training data and annotation platform solutions used in the development of AI algorithms to power machine learning. The acquisition will be…
Bank of Baroda (BoB) has launched an ‘Employee Assistance Programme’ that is aimed to help it’s employees deal with their personal and professional issues by providing them psychological counselling and consulting. The well-being programme is introduced in association with Employee Assistance Program (EAP) India Pvt Ltd., for the welfare of the employees and their family…
Co-working and office space provider, Incuspaze has announced the launch of their first centre in Ahmedabad at The Link, Vijay Cross Road. The new centre in Ahmedabad is spread across an area of 12,000 sq. feet encompassing 300 seats along with private offices, meeting rooms and conference rooms. Incuspaze at The Link, Ahmedabad is the…
Bengaluru-based social enterprise, LabourNet has appointed Deep Mukherjee of Star Disney India as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of its B2B2C gig staffing platform SAHI. An alumnus of Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, Deep Mukherjee was the Co-founder of TeamLease, a temp staffing firm and has also held leadership roles at Kelly India and NIIT.…
Amazon.com Company, Amazon Web Services is set to expand its services by including a second infrastructure region in India by mid-2022. The new AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Region aims to enable more institutions, businesses and non-profit organizations to run their applications and serve end users from data centers located in India. “Businesses in India are…