The Trump administration’s steep hike in H-1B visa fees may have rattled the US tech industry, but identity and access management player Okta is looking to India for both talent and growth, chief executive Todd McKinnon told ET in an…
Outcome-based pricing in IT deals is a promising approach but presents challenges in benchmarking outcomes, especially for long-term projects, as success metrics can be ambiguous and vary across industries, said Biswajeet Mahapatra, principal analyst, Forrester. He added that clients often…
This festive season, the spike in cyber fraud activities has been fuelled by AI-generated tools, making the attacks more personal and contextualised. Cybersecurity companies report a nearly 40% rise in attacks during festivals, with up to 15% of them behaviour…
India is at an early stage, with ten approved projects covering two fabs, rest assembly (OSAT), and compound semiconductor units, amounting to a total investment commitment of about Rs 1.6 lakh crore in six Indian states. ET compares global chip…
An unsecured cloud server exposed hundreds of thousands of bank transfer records, revealing names, bank account details, and contact information. Cybersecurity firm UpGuard found over 2.73 lakh files on the Amazon server on August 26, each showing unmasked account numbers,…
OpenAI’s new CEO of Applications, Fidji Simo, is looking to hire a senior leader to head its monetisation strategy, which may include ads on ChatGPT. Simo, who joined last month, has been meeting candidates, some from her Facebook days, for…
Amazon received the highest number of H-1B visa approvals in the first half of 2025, with 10,044 approvals by June 30, according to USCIS. Tech companies are the main users of the programme. TCS came second, followed by Microsoft, Meta,…
At a recent education conference, experts stressed that technology, including AI, should be seen as a tool, not a teacher. They warned of the risks if children use it without guidance. Biswajit Saha from CBSE said technology must be used…
The job cuts are part of an $865 million restructuring programme, said the CEO. However, the global consulting firm is also upskilling over 70,000 of its employees in agentic AI.
“Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a totally coherent system bound to context and behavior.” — Kenneth L. Pike The web has accents. So should our design systems. Design Systems as…