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'The Fable' has made me correct myself: Manoj Bajpayee
Film critic and delegate for India and South Asia at Berlinale 2024, Meenakshi Shedde, caught up with Manoj Bajpayee after the Berlin Film Festival premiere of his new movie 'The Fable.' Directed by Raam Reddy, the film, also starring Priyanka Bose, Deepak Dobriyal, and Tillotama Shome, is gathering rave reviews. In this conversation, Bajpayee walks us through the process of completing the challenging film and how it feels to receive an overwhelming response from the audience
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Berlinale 2024 is historic for Indian cinema: Meenakshi Shedde
Forbes India is at Berlinale 2024 with film critic and delegate for India and South Asia, Meenakshi Shedde. Manoj Bajpayee-starrer The Fable is making a splash at the prestigious event, along with a host of other south Asian cinema
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30 Under 30 Class of 2024: Celebrating the young achievers
Forbes India 30 Under 30 is a cohort of more than 300 alum who are excelling in their respective field. The Class of 2024 is no exception. From Asian Games gold medal winners Parul Chaudhary and Sumit Antil to 21-year-old founders of Zepto, Aadit Palicha and Kaivalya Vohra, to big screen star Rashmika Mandanna, the list is filled with young achievers who are already changing the world. Anubhuti Matta shares the highlights of the list and breaks down the process of choosing the winners
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How Infosys, TCS might benefit as enterprises move to sunset legacy apps using AI
India's top IT companies might benefit as their biggest customers look to finally sunset legacy applications that are only being maintained for the critical data they hold. Enterprises with thousands of applications have marked one in ten as 'end of life,' the consultancy ISG, notes in a recent analysis. In just Asia Pacific, which lags the US in generative AI investments, companies are expected collectively spend some $3.4 billion over the next year, Infosys estimates in a recent report
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IT services companies may benefit as enterprises tap AI to sunset legacy apps
In one thing today in tech, India's top IT companies might benefit as their biggest customers look to sunset legacy applications that are only being maintained for the critical data they hold. In just Asia Pacific, which lags the US in generative AI investments, companies are expected collectively spend some $3.4 billion over the next year. In other headlines, Paytm taps former SEBI boss M Damodaran to help it meet RBI's compliance diktat. And India's parliamentary committee on IT raises alarm over the PhonePe Google Pay duopoly
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Google retires Bard with launch of Gemini Advanced as $20 subscription
Google, on Feb. 8, launched its most powerful AI chatbot yet, called Gemini Advanced, based on its Ultra 1.0 large language model. With this, the company is also pulling together all its AI products and features into the Gemini brand. Google is rolling out Gemini on smartphones with a new Android app and within the Google app on iOS. This is all initially only in English, but Google says it is working to add more languages, starting with Japanese and Korean
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Tech layoffs in 2024 already: 32,500 and counting as AI takes precedence
Tech companies have already shed about 32,500 jobs in 2024, according to layoffs.fyi, which tracks jobs at 5,000 tech companies. Snap, the parent company of the video and photo sharing app Snapchat, yesterday became the latest to announce cuts, when it said in an SEC filing it would reduce its headcount by 10 percent worldwide, affecting more than 500 people. In India, the top IT services companies entered the new year with their collective workforce lower by tens of thousands of employees
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Apple's Vision Pro is in US stores, but a see-through AR glass isn't on the horizon yet
Apple, on Feb. 2 announced that its Vision Pro AR headsets were available for sale in stores in the US. Apple calls the headset a spatial computer, which works by tracking natural hand gestures and movement of your eyes. The $3,500 headset is unlikely to be available in India anytime soon. In the long run, see-through AR glasses are the real deal, unlike the video from multiple cameras rendered onto a display, but that tech will take time before a consumer-grade device can happen
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Apple's iPhone sales in India crossed the 10 million mark in 2023, Counterpoint says
Apple's focus on India is paying off and the company also captured the top position in revenue in a calendar year for the first time, due to strong demand for both its latest iPhone and older models, according to market research provider Counterpoint. Overall, Samsung maintained its lead with the biggest market share, at 18 percent, in the predominantly Android market, and Vivo took the number two spot with 17 percent share
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What India's tech startups want in Budget 2024
The well-known expectations remain, such as tax breaks and incentives, but tech startups are also hoping the government will sharpen its focus on supporting them to develop more intellectual property within the country, which is crucial for our long-term security. They want more R&D spends, deeper partnerships with public labs, and simpler rules to help them go after global customers
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Why Indian philanthropists are supporting 'risky' causes
The latest Forbes India issue highlights some significant philanthropists and how the Indian IT and technology industry is at the forefront of giving. In this podcast, Divya Shekhar dissects how they choose the causes to support and why they back underfunded causes with patient capital