Category: News

Skill-Lync and Renault Nissan Technology & Business Centre India announce a strategic partnership to drive comprehensive talent transformation programmes

Skill-Lync, an engineering EdTech start-up and Renault Nissan Technology & Business Centre India (RNTBCI), automotive technology and business centre supporting Renault and Nissan globally, have announced a strategic partnership  under which both companies will work towards training, and upskilling professionals for RNTBCI. Skill-Lync’s students trained in Electric Vehicles, Autonomous Vehicles, Embedded Systems, Model-Based Development, Automotive Design, Finite Element Analysis (FEA), Computational…

Flipkart join hands with Google Cloud to advance innovation in a digital-first future

Google Cloud and e-commerce company Flipkart have entered into a multi-year strategic partnership to help fast-track Flipkart’s innovation and cloud strategy. This partnership will propel Flipkart into its next phase of growth and advance its vision of onboarding India’s next 200 million shoppers and lakhs of sellers, a statement said. Working together, Google Cloud will help Flipkart:…

Deloitte Consulting completes acquisition of US and India-based BIAS Corporation

Deloitte Consulting announced it has completed the acquisition of substantially all of the assets of BIAS Corporation, a cloud consulting firm that is a leader in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) marketplace. Together, the two organizations will help clients build powerful foundations for the future enabled by Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Oracle Cloud Applications, the…

HCL Grant 2022 recognizes India’s most innovative NGOs and their transformative development projects for Rural India

HCL Foundation (HCLF), the CSR (corporate social responsibility) arm of HCL Technologies, announced the winning NGOs of the seventh edition of HCL Grant, a program dedicated to supporting diverse, innovative and inclusive initiatives of NGOs for sustainable transformation of rural India in areas of environment, health and education. Three winning NGOs, one each in the…

Jet Freight appoints Joy John as Director for their multi-model logistics business

Jet Freight announced the appointment of logistics veteran Joy John as its Director for Air and Sea freight effective 1st March 2022. Joy will be responsible for Pan India Sales and Operations of Jet Freight Logistics Ltd. Joy brings over 30 years of comprehensive experience in airfreight management, freight forwarding, cross-border operations, sales support, business…

Wipro appoints Turki Bin Nader as GM and Country Head, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Wipro Limited, a global information technology, consulting and business process services company, announced the appointment of Turki Bin Nader as General Manager and Country Head for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), one of Wipro’s key focus markets in the Middle East region. Turki will focus on Wipro’s vision for business growth, revenue expansion, client…

NewRocket names Nilesh Auti as General Manager of India business

NewRocket, a technology strategy, design, and operations provider and ServiceNow Elite Partner, announced that it has named Nilesh Auti as General Manager of its India business. Auti brings more than 20 years of experience in technology and solutions development, previously holding leadership roles at Tech Mahindra, IBM, Mindtree, NTT, and Suzuki, the statement said. Auti’s appointment comes…

HDFC Bank Parivartan to train 6,900 Goa youth in healthcare with Wipro GE Healthcare & United Way Delhi

HDFC Bank, under its CSR programme Parivartan, has launched skill training initiative for 6,900 youth in Goa in collaboration with Wipro GE Healthcare and United Way Delhi (UWD). Beneficiaries associated with skilling institutes will be imparted training for various non-technical job roles in the healthcare sector. Apart from training, the students will be provided assistance…

Frank Cooper III named Global Chief Marketing Officer at Visa

Visa announced that Frank Cooper III will join the company as Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) in May 2022. Cooper will also serve as a member of the company’s Executive Committee and report to Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Al Kelly. “Frank is a rare mix of creative brand strategist with strong business acumen and…

Document-to-Data AI startup IN-D.ai raises seed funding

IN-D.ai, a provider of intelligent document and image-processing solutions, announced it has closed a seed round of $750K following a pre-seed investment of $500K. As per the company, the focus of this round was to get industry leaders, who could be advisors and evangelists, on-board its cap table, a statement said. Hugh Simon, founder and…

Vesttoo appoints new General Managers in Europe, South Korea, and UAE

Vesttoo, an AI-based insurance-linked investment platform, announced the global expansion of its leadership team to include key industry veterans who will manage the company’s offices in London, Seoul, as well as Dubai. The seasoned executives include the former CEO of Allianz Global Corporate and Specialty UK, former CEO of AIG Korea, and a former high-ranking manager at Investbridge Capital.…

Captain Fresh raises $ 50mn in Series C funding round

B2B seafood and meat marketplace Captain Fresh announced it has raised $50 million in Series C funding round led by existing investors Prosus Ventures and Tiger Global, according to ETtech report. Accel India, Matrix Partners India, Ankur Capital, and Incubate Fund also participated in the round. The company’s valuation has more than doubled to $500…

Cox Automotive names Lori Wittman as President – Retail Solutions and Amy Mills as EVP and Chief Strategy Officer

Cox Automotive named Lori Wittman as the new president of the company’s Retail Solutions group and Amy Mills as Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer. Both will report directly to Steve Rowley, president, Cox Automotive. Wittman, who most recently held the role of SVP of Dealer Software, takes over for interim group President and Chief Strategy Officer Amy Mills. Mills…