India’s data centre industry is poised for a sustained period of growth and much of this will centre around Mumbai and Chennai due to their business and infrastructure advantages, strategic location, and cable landing stations that are well-positioned to support this growth, said a Nxtra by Airtel and JLL India’s joint study.
Kenya-based fintech company 4G Capital, which provides unsecured credit to micro enterprises, has raised $18.5 million in Series C funding from global private equity firm Lightrock. The equity funding comes as the fintech plans to roll-out a series of new products and services including new loans that will increase the credit limit from $1,000 and allow longer repayment periods from the current maximum of one month. All this is in its plan to expand its clientele base and grow its profits.
Tech titan IBM on Thursday announced it is helping Marks & Spencer Reliance India (M&S India) modernise its supply chain to drive seamless integration between online and in-store business for improved customer experience.
Nearly one-third of major news publishers have blocked generative AI tools from reading their content. But that’s a drastic measure which could also exclude their results from conventional search engines. Microsoft has just given publishers the option to block access by Bing Chat without also removing their content from search results. We’ll see if competitors do the same.