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Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
Big Blue looks to win back lost ground with hybrid and multi-cloud solutions that provide a platform on top of other public clouds.
Editor's note: IBM’s cloud efforts are in tatters. In the very first edition of Oversize, over a year ago, I wrote this as Arvind Krishna took over the reins of the company: The 2010s did not go well for IBM. Its market capitalization peaked at a little over $240 billion in 2012; today, it’s less than $110 billion. Now, Big Blue has a new cloud-savvy CEO and is fresh off one of the biggest tech acquisitions of all time. But can it reverse a decade of declining revenues and shed off its image as a boring, old tech enterprise? From the outside, it didn’t look unlikely. Like IBM, Microsoft—another old enterprise hand and long-time rival—under Satya Nadella had turned around its fortunes with Azure despite being late to the game and trailing behind the market leader, Amazon Web Services. By the time Arvind took over, it became clear that IBM had missed the cloud. The steady decline of its business and technology reputation coincided with previous CEO Ginni Rometty’s tenure. Under Rometty, from 2012 to 2020, revenue declined 28%, i.e., a staggering …
India’s leading tech hardware distribution company is making the most of the unprecedented rise in global prices of laptops and other tech hardware. There’s just one problem.
Even though the government of India did a U-turn on the mandatory pre-installation of the anti-fraud app on all mobile phones sold or imported in the country, the larger problem of petty cybercrime remains grim.
The Zoho co-founder’s attempt to build a WhatsApp competitor has captured the imagination of the nationalist Indian. Emotions aside, the most likely outcome is that Zoho’s other products will start selling more.
