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Updated on: Jun 2026
Salesforce Layoffs Spark Debate as 30-Week Severance Package Wins Praise
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Salesforce Layoffs Spark Debate as 30-Week Severance Package Wins Praise

Salesforce announced the latest round of layoffs along with a severance package, which has generated significant discussion across the technology industry. While job cuts are never easy for employees, many professionals have been surprised by the company’s severance package, which offers eligible employees up to 30 weeks of pay and extended healthcare benefits. The layoffs […]

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Unilever Opens New Fragrance Hub in Mumbai to Strengthen Global Innovation
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Unilever Opens New Fragrance Hub in Mumbai to Strengthen Global Innovation

Unilever has opened a new Unilever Fragrance House (UFH) hub in Mumbai as part of its €100 million global investment to strengthen in-house fragrance development capabilities. The new facility is located at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Powai campus in Mumbai and forms part of Unilever’s global fragrance innovation network. The company said the […]

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TCS to Take $70 Million Additional Hit After U.S. Supreme Court Rejects Appeal
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TCS to Take $70 Million Additional Hit After U.S. Supreme Court Rejects Appeal

According to media reports, India’s largest IT services company, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), will record a one-time exceptional charge of $70 million in the first quarter of FY2027 after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear its appeal in a long-running trade secrets dispute with DXC Technology. Supreme Court Ends Legal Road The decision leaves […]

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Hexaware Opens GIFT City TechFin Centre, Plans 1,000 Jobs Over Next Three Years
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Hexaware Opens GIFT City TechFin Centre, Plans 1,000 Jobs Over Next Three Years

IT services company Hexaware Technologies has opened a new TechFin Centre at GIFT City in Gandhinagar, Gujarat, strengthening its presence in the banking, financial services, and insurance (BFSI) sector. The company currently has around 250 employees at the facility and plans to increase the workforce to 1,000 over the next three years. The new office […]

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EY GDS Launches AI Center in Bengaluru, Creating New Job Opportunities
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EY GDS Launches AI Center in Bengaluru, Creating New Job Opportunities

EY Global Delivery Services (GDS) has launched the ey.ai Center for Reimagination in Bengaluru. Spread across 40,000 square feet, the center is designed to help businesses understand how artificial intelligence (AI) and other technologies can impact industries, jobs, and business operations. The launch is part of EY’s previously announced investment of US$1.4 billion in AI. […]

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MANGOS Era: Nvidia, OpenAI, SpaceX Are Shifting Global Capital
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MANGOS Era: Nvidia, OpenAI, SpaceX Are Shifting Global Capital

The new MANGOS market paradigm is rapidly gaining prominence in Silicon Valley as Wall Street moves away from legacy acronyms like “FAANG” and the “Magnificent Seven.” The new moniker represents six corporate titans: Meta, Anthropic, Nvidia, Google, OpenAI, and SpaceX. Shifting From Platforms to Deep Tech The transition from FAANG to MANGOS signals a profound shift in how the global technology industry generates […]

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Paytm Trims 400 Staff While Adding 10% More AI Roles
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Paytm Trims 400 Staff While Adding 10% More AI Roles

Indian fintech pioneer Paytm has announced a comprehensive structural restructuring. The company is aggressively steering its core platform towards an artificial intelligence-driven ecosystem. As part of this overarching strategic pivot, the digital payments giant plans to recruit roughly 4,000 new professionals over the next nine months. This will result in an approximate 10% expansion of […]

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Eight Public-Sector Banks Add 13,223 Employees in FY26
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Eight Public-Sector Banks Add 13,223 Employees in FY26

Reaffirming that human resources remain a central pillar of growth despite rapid digital transformation, India’s state-owned banks expanded their hiring significantly. According to data compiled from annual bank disclosures for the financial year ended March 31, 2026, eight of the country’s twelve public-sector banks (PSBs) collectively added 13,223 professionals to their payrolls. This hiring surge […]

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Microsoft Halts Claude Usage Over Anthropic’s 30-Day Data Trap
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Microsoft Halts Claude Usage Over Anthropic’s 30-Day Data Trap

Tech giant Microsoft has implemented internal operational restrictions blocking its employees from utilizing Anthropic’s flagship artificial intelligence model, Claude Fable 5. The sudden policy enforcement stems from a critical legal and security impasse regarding mandatory, non-configurable data retention clauses appended to the newly released architecture. The restriction creates a rare corporate paradox. While Microsoft engineers […]

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TCS Opens India’s First Oracle AI Lab in Kolkata with 4-City Expansion Plan
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TCS Opens India’s First Oracle AI Lab in Kolkata with 4-City Expansion Plan

India’s largest IT services exporter, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), has officially inaugurated the nation’s first Oracle AI Data Platform Lab and Center of Excellence (CoE). Located at Delta Park Lords in Kolkata, the specialized facility marks an intensification of TCS’s 35-year strategic alliance with Oracle, focusing squarely on transitioning enterprise artificial intelligence from experimental pilots […]

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Infosys Expects Big AI Investments to Pay Off Well in the Long Run
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Infosys Expects Big AI Investments to Pay Off Well in the Long Run

India’s second-largest software services exporter, Infosys Ltd., anticipates a net positive financial benefit from its artificial intelligence (AI) implementations over the medium-to-long term. The corporate outlook follows high-level institutional meetings with JM Financial, where the tech giant mapped its evolving business architecture against a landscape disrupted by generative and agentic AI. The baseline growth strategy […]

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Samsung Staff Now Allowed to Use ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude
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Samsung Staff Now Allowed to Use ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude

Samsung Group has launched a sweeping corporate initiative designed to fundamentally reshape its operational framework. Dubbed the “AI Transformation” (AX) program, the South Korean conglomerate has officially granted its global workforce permission to utilize prominent external generative AI tools, reversing prior conservative stances on commercial AI software. Effective immediately, Samsung personnel across various business units […]

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