Google Consulting could be Indian IT's new, great threat in its own backyard
How much these consulting services overlap with the digital and cloud solutions of Indian IT will determine how much of a danger they will pose.
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Can Masayoshi Son and Uber-rival Ola jumpstart an electric revolution in India?
With only some 22,000 electric vehicles sold in India last year, the country has a long way to go to rival its neighbour China's efforts. Yet, private companies like Ola with wealthy visionary-benefactors like Masayoshi Son can help speed things up.
How AI and robots are eating desperately needed jobs in India
Creating a digital economy is a fine idea but who is going to fuel it if over 100 million people have no jobs? This is the fundamental dilemma confronting Indian workers.
Las Vegas to lose 65 percent of jobs to automation by 2025, says study
Based on a 2013 study conducted by Oxford University researchers, this new report is a bleak reminder of how vulnerable low-skilled jobs in the US are to automation.
Could apple-picking robots signal the end of a human hand in agriculture?
A shortage of labour and a huge increase in demand to feed an exploding global population means that the kind of bot that can effortlessly and accurately pick an apple will eventually be an inextricable part of farm life.
Tesla's patents and a new approach could re-charge a sputtering Reva
India's Reva sells more electric cars abroad than it does at home and it may yet be some ways away from wooing the average Indian. But if it gets its strategy right, it may end up selling quite a few cars at home, if not globally.
AI, destroyer or savior? Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg trade insults
The moral behind their feud: AI is good or bad for you. Until it's not.
Bhutan goes electric while India spins its wheels
India needs to emulate Bhutan if it has any hope of ensuring that its cities are liveable in the future.
Interested in the top job at Infosys? Here is the quicksand that awaits you
No one in their right mind would want to inherit a job that brings with it meddling founders at war with an out-of-sync board, where acquisitions will be endlessly questioned if they happen at all, and a climate of conservatism in business strategy abounds when risk taking is the only antidote for survival.
Automation signals the beginning of the end for the Indian coder
Around 28 percent of the Indian IT workforce will be upended by automation by 2021.