Great Learning Corporate Academy sees 500+ corporates use it to train 1,00,000 employees within first month of launch !!

Great Learning Corporate Academy sees 500+ corporates use it to train 1,00,000 employees within first month of launch !!

Kolkata:  With India Inc. treating the current pandemic as an opportunity to upskill their workforce, the Great Learning Corporate Academy by Great Learning, an ed-tech companies for working professionals, has seen 500+ corporates using it within the first month of its launch to train more than 10,000 employees. While most of this demand has come from sectors like Auto, BFSI, E-commerce, Finance and IT, the Great Learning Corporate Academy has also witnessed significant interest from government employees. Some of the top companies that have used the Great Learning Corporate Academy to train their workforce include Maruti, UST Global,…

Digitize your dog into a computer game !!

Digitize your dog into a computer game !!

The software could be used for a wide range of purposes, from helping vets diagnose lameness and monitoring recovery of their canine patients, to entertainment applications such as making it easier to put digital representations of dogs into movies and video games. Motion capture technology is widely used in the entertainment industry, where actors wear a suit dotted with white markers which are then precisely tracked in 3D space by multiple cameras taking images from different angles. Movement data can then be transferred onto a digital character for use in…

Amazon ‘thwarts largest ever DDoS cyber-attack’   !!

  Amazon says its online cloud, which provides the infrastructure on which many websites rely, has fended off the largest DDoS attack in history. Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are designed to knock a website offline by flooding it with huge amounts of requests until it crashes. Amazon Web Services (AWS) said the February attack had fired 2.3Tbps. That is a little under half of all traffic BT sees on its entire UK network during a normal working day. The previous record, set in 2018, was 1.7Tbps. “This is…

A non-profit in Silicon Valley is helping minority start-up founders succeed !!

As we shine a spotlight on the lack of diversity in Silicon Valley, it’s worth highlighting some of the people who have been working to bring more diversity to the tech scene for years. One prime example is James Norman, now CEO of Pilotly, a focus group company. He also co-founded and runs an organization called the Transparent Collective, a non-profit that aims to help early-stage minority founders. The organization hosts groups of entrepreneurs from around the country for a four-day program of coaching and panels to help them hone…

Uber is making Juneteenth and election days around the world company holidays !!

Uber will honor Juneteenth and elections days around the world as company holidays, CEO Dara Khosrowshahi announced Wednesday. “To embrace the meaning of #Juneteenth this year, we’re making it a paid day off. We encourage employees to spend it in a way that allows them to stand up against racism, whether that’s by learning, participating in a community action, or reflecting on how to make change,” Khosrowshahi said on Twitter. “But I strongly believe that lasting change really happens at the ballot box. That’s why we are making election days around…

Social media is killing democracy !!

Mumbai: Last week, Uddhav Thackeray was forced to deny reports that Mumbai would be re-imposing a lockdown on June 15. The reports had made such an impact that all over the city, people were stocking up on goods and wondering whether they had made a mistake by resuming work too soon. In Delhi, where reports of a similar June 15 lockdown had also surfaced — though they had not been as widely circulated as they were in Mumbai — the health minister, and subsequently the chief minister, had to issue…

Pidilite Industries share price falls 3% after Q4 net profit plunges 34% !!

Shares of Pidilite Industries fell almost 3 percent intraday on June 18, a day after the company reported a nearly 34%  year-on-year (YoY) decline in its consolidated net profit to Rs 156.51 crore for the fourth quarter ended March 31. The company had posted a net profit of Rs 236.87 crore for the January-March period of 2018-19. Its revenue from operations declined to Rs 1,544.68 crore for the fourth quarter as compared with Rs 1,639.28 crore in the same period of 2018-19, Pidilite Industries said in a regulatory filing. For…

Coal India share price jumps 8% after PM launches auction process of coal blocks !!

Shares of Coal India jumped almost 8 percent in intraday trade on BSE on June 18 after the Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday launched the auction process for 41 coal blocks for commercial mining. The government’s move will open India’s coal sector for private players and termed as a major step in the direction of India achieving self-reliance. As per a PTI report, the Prime Minister said the launch of the auction process not only marks the beginning of unlocking of the country’s coal sector from the “lockdown of…

Momentum plays: 5 stocks that could give over 10% return in 1-3 months !!

Bombay: Markets have been volatile for the last few days, and June 17 was no different with 100 points swing on either side. Nifty finally settled at 9,881 down by 0.33% for the day. Broader market indices, BSE Midcap and Smallcap, outperformed benchmark indices with a gain of 0.32% and 0.71%, respectively, for the day. The market breadth on NSE was in favour of bulls with an advance-decline ratio of 5:4. Nifty witnessed reversal from its 100-Day moving average (DMA) at 10,327, and Friday’s gap opening found support at 9,544…

AICRA Sign off MOU with PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industries to set up Centre for Excellence (COE) to support MSME !!

New Delhi: With an objective of India, a global leader in the field of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence AICRA has signed an MOU with PHDCCI to foster support to MSMEs (Micro Small and Medium Enterprise) with new and cost-effective technologies. Initiatives include setting up of COE (Centre of Excellence) to help MSMEs which will render them support and services to adapt and grow with new technologies for production and efficiency improvement at low cost. This collaboration further aims to offer training programs, skilling the corporates and industry professionals in various…