Amazon data services india pvt ltd has leased 5.5 acre of industrial land with a potential development area of 2.39 lakhs sq ft, from Larsen & Toubro Ltd, in suburban Mumbai’s Powai area to set up a data centre. With businesses increasingly clustering together in cities, Amazon’s city-center data center will be a vital cog in the economy of Mumbai.
Dentsu Group Inc has entered into an agreement to acquire a majority stake in Extentia, a global technology and services firm with a focus on enterprise mobility, cloud engineering, and user experiences. Extentia will join Merkle, a leading technology-enabled, data-driven customer experience management (CXM) company within Dentsu Group’s international business, Dentsu International. With this acquisition, Extentia further bolsters Merkle’s existing Salesforce capabilities, adding scale and additional geography in India.
PwC India has announced it has completed the acquisition of Venerate Solutions Private Limited, a Salesforce consulting firm. Venerate, which was founded in 2016 in Bangalore, builds customised solutions on the Salesforce platform across multiple clouds. The solutions help organisations in managing customers, sales and provide value.
Salesforce is buying Airkit.ai, which builds low-code, AI-powered e-commerce customer service agents. You might have thought Salesforce could already do that, but presumably Airkit does it better. It doesn’t hurt that the company founders sold a previous business to Salesforce, the company was partly funded by Salesforce Ventures, and the product is already listed on AppExchange. Price was not announced.