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Almost £40m is to be invested in a new Foundry for Compound Semiconductor technologies in Cardiff. The investment will create a state of the art facility in the Cardiff Capital Region (CCR) for Compound Semiconductor (CS) applications development and high volume manufacturing. The CCR includes 10 local authorities in Wales that signed a £1.2bn deal in March. Councillor Andrew Morgan, chair...

The world is becoming an increasingly connected place such that internet connections aren’t just for phones and computers anymore – appliances, household systems, dog collars, hair brushes, cars and VR headsets are just a short sampling of the world of things looking for secure, consistent connections to the web. By most estimates there are 6.3 billion such devices as of...

Tamil Nadu is the second state to hold largest number of smart cities nominated in the list of smart cities in India. Chennai and Coimbatore secured its place in the first list while Vellore, Madurai, Salem and Thanjavur were selected in the second list in 2016 - 2017. There are total 12 cities in the list to be developed under...

Extreme Networks, Inc. (“Extreme”)  has announced that it is the winning bidder to acquire Avaya Inc.’s (“Avaya”) networking business. The assets of Avaya’s networking business unit will therefore be sold to Extreme for approximately $100 million, in accordance with the terms and conditions of the asset purchase agreement entered into March 7, 2017. The final agreement has been approved by the...

Karnataka the state of IT and research center got six cities nominated in the list of 100 smart cities in India. Cities which made their place in the list are Mangaluru, Shivamogga, Belagavi, Hubballi-Dharwad, Tumakuru, and Davangere. All these six cities scored more than 85% under the 15-point parameter set by the Centre for inclusion. Most popular and expected...

Reliance Infrastructures Mumbai Metro has announced a tie-up with Google to provide details and information about the service on Google Maps, an official spokesperson said here. The Mumbai Metro One Pvt Ltd (MMOPL) has collaborated with Google Maps to give the people its timetable and associated geographic details on all the Metro stations on the Versova-Andheri-Ghatkopar route. Through the Google Maps...

Some Indian banks, especially state-run lenders, may end up on the losing side in the competition with financial technology firms, said Ronit Ghose, global sector head for banks at Citi Research. While India is a huge fintech opportunity, it may take a long time to become the next China, Ghose told Saloni Shukla in an interview. Edited excerpts: China is dominating...

IT major Wipro today said it has reinforced security measures at all its office locations after receiving a second threat email, but there was no impact on the company's operations. "Wipro confirms that it has received a second threatening e-mail.... There is no impact on the company's operations," the company said in a statement here. However, Wipro did not specify...

Inmarsat, the world’s leading provider of global mobile satellite communications, today announced that it has awarded the contract for the construction of an additional Inmarsat Global Xpress (GX) broadband network communications satellite to Thales Alenia Space. This award reflects Inmarsat’s strategy of adding capacity to its already established, unique, high-speed global broadband network in areas of high customer demand and...

This is the third of six blog posts that examine how the Automotive industry will be impacted by Blockchain in the near and not so distant future. In this post I elaborate two use cases that have huge potential for Manufacturer Finance. Treasury Operations Today’s largest Automotive companies operate less like single monolithic command and control structures and more like a...