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AppSheet acquired by Google Cloud

AppSheet, a no-code development platform for application software, has been acquired by Google and will soon join the Google Cloud team. AppSheet was founded by Praveen Seshadri in 2014. In a company blog, Praveen Seshadri, the Founder and CEO of AppSheet, informed about this and stated, “Today, I’m pleased to announce that AppSheet has been […]

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Insights

2019, a dramatic year of top management changes

2019 was a very dramatic year for the business ecosystem. A global economic slowdown, reduction in profits and bankruptcy filing by many companies. But there was something else also going on behind the closed doors of corporate headquarters. Last year witnessed resignations of many top executives from big companies and start-ups. While this could be […]

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Talent Ecosystem

Google plans to hire 3,800 full-time customer service executives in 2020

Global tech and internet giant Google plans to hire 3,800 full-time customer care support in the year 2020 at various sites, including in India. These executives will be responsible for customer care support 24/7.  The development comes after 10 US Senators in August called on Google to provide contractual employees full-time employment after they’ve worked […]

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Executive Movements

Google appoints Sanjay Gupta as Country Manager & VP of Sales & Operations, India

Google has appointed Sanjay Gupta as Country Manager & VP of Sales & Operations, for India region. Mr Gupta takes over from Rajan Anandan, who left Google in April.   Mr Gupta was former managing director of Star and Disney India before being appointed as Country Manager. His role will be contributing to Google’s efforts to […]

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News

Apple’s AI Chief John Giannandrea gets promoted to Executive team as Senior Vice President.

Apple Inc. the American multinational technology company headquartered in California, today announced that John Giannandrea has been named to the company’s executive team as senior vice president of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Strategy. He joined Apple in April 2018. Apple’s move comes as the company’s HomeKit devices are facing competitions from Amazon’s Echo and […]

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LinkedIn appoints Mahesh Narayanan as Country Manager for India.

Microsoft-owned LinkedIn, the business and employment-oriented service that operates via websites and mobile apps, on Thursday announced the appointment of Mahesh Narayanan as Country Manager for India, effective from January 7, 2019. Narayanan has over two decades of experience in building and growing digital businesses in South Asia. Previously, he has served many digital business […]

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News

Google acquires Sigmoid Labs, the developer of “Where is my Train” app.

Google LLC, an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, has acquired Bengaluru-based startup Sigmoid Labs, the parent company of popular train-tracking application “Where is my Train.” “We’re excited to share that Sigmoid Labs, the team behind the “Where is my train” app, is joining Google. We can think of no better […]

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Neeraj Arora, WhatsApp’s chief business officer Quits the firm.

WhatsApp’s chief business officer Neeraj Arora, on Monday, announced his decision to quit the company, marking another high-profile exit at the Facebook-owned messaging app. Arora has been serving the company since 2011 and through Facebook’s $19 billion acquisition in 2014. Earlier this year in April, WhatsApp co-founder Jan Koum left the company due to conflicts with Facebook on WhatsApp’s […]

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Sridhar Ramaswamy, Google’s Advertising Chief Leaves the firm to Join Greylock Partners.

Sridhar Ramaswamy, Advertising Chief of Google has ended his 15 years relationship with the company to join Greylock Partners as a venture partner. Prabhakar Raghavan, head of Google’s business-applications unit, will step into his role.   In 2003, Sridhar joined the ads team, at that time the revenue of ads group was $1.5 billion. He was […]

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Executive Movements

Sundar Pichai to head Android division at Google, Andy Rubin to move to a new role.

Andy Rubin, the guy leading the Android division at Google will be moving to a new role, while Sundar Pichai will  be taking his place as head of Android division. Pichai is presently heading Chrome and Apps division. The announcement was posted on the official Google Blog as an update from Larry Page: “Having exceeded […]

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World´s Most Attractive Employer–Google

Based on the preferences of over 144,000 career seekers, with a business or engineering background from the world´s 12 greatest economies, Universum releases the global talent attraction index: "The World’s Most Attractive Employers 2012". The index, split in the business category – preferences from business career seekers – and engineering category – preferences from engineering […]