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.
Digital transformation is so 2021. This Salesforce study finds security and privacy have replaced transformation as the top priority of IT managers. Simplicity is also in style: more plan to consolidate their tech stack (34%) than to add new vendors (11%). Nearly three-quarters (72%) use no-code/low technology, including 50% of marketing departments.