Tech Partnership

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  India, Meta Launch "Be An Empowered Consumer" Campaign For Digital Safety

  The Ministry of Consumer Affairs on Tuesday announced a partnership with tech company Meta to launch a consumer awareness campaign called "Be an Empowered Consumer" aimed at enhancing digital literacy and protection for online consumers.

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  PhonePe’s Indus Appstore to Come Pre-Installed on Xiaomi Devices in India

  PhonePe’s Indus Appstore and Xiaomi India announced a multi-year partnership on Thursday. With this collaboration, the homegrown Android app marketplace will now come pre-installed in all Xiaomi devices in India. As a result, the Chinese consumer tech brand’s own Android marketplace GetApps will now be replaced with Indus Appstore in all existi...

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  Tether Inks MoU With Republic of Guinea to Boost Blockchain Adoption

  In an announcement released on February 17, Tether said it will work with Guinea to ensure that its engagement with blockchain and virtual digital assets (VDAs) is facilitated safely. A key area of focus for Guinea’s partnership with Tether will be on growing blockchain expertise in the country.

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  Microsoft-OpenAI Partnership Raises Antitrust Concerns, FTC Says

  The FTC has said Microsoft’s deal with OpenAI, as well as Amazon.com and Google’s partnerships with AI company Anthropic, raise the risk that AI developers could be “fully acquired” by the tech giants in the future.

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  Google Partners The Associated Press to Bring Real-Time Information to Gemini

  Google announced a new partnership with the US-based not-for-profit news agency Associated Press on Wednesday. The new collaboration is focused on the Mountain View-based tech giant’s artificial intelligence (AI) products and services, which are powered by its Gemini AI models. The company highlighted that with this partnership, AP will deliver ...

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  Microsoft Announces AI-Focused Strategic Partnerships With Government, Major Enterprises

  Microsoft announced its partnerships with the government and industry leaders over artificial intelligence (AI) on Wednesday. The announcement was made by company CEO Satya Nadella in New Delhi on day two of Its AI Tour. On Tuesday, Nadella announced the tech giant’s intentions to invest $3 billion (roughly Rs. 25,753 crores) in the country to de...

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  Boat Nirvana X TWS Earbuds to Be Unveiled at CES 2025 Alongside New Nirvana Product Range

  Boat is gearing up to unveil its new audio products at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2025 in Las Vegas. The domestic audio and wearable manufacturing company will launch its Boat Nirvana X TWS true wireless stereo (TWS) earbuds at the annual tech show. The brand will also showcase its Nirvana product lineup for the next financial year includi...

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  Samsung Bespoke Smart Refrigerators Will Soon Recommend Groceries to Order on Instacart

  Samsung announced a multi-year partnership with the US-based grocery delivery company Instacart on Thursday. With this collaboration, the South Korean tech giant will soon add a new feature to its Bespoke Smart Refrigerator lineup. Using artificial intelligence (AI), these devices will not be able to monitor the grocery items kept inside the fridge...

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  Google Cloud Partners With DeliverHealth to Bring AI Solutions for Clinical Documentations

  Google Cloud announced a collaboration with DeliverHealth, a clinical documentation and digital health platform, on Thursday. The announcement was made at the Google Cloud Startup Summit 2024 India event in Bengaluru. The strategic partnership will combine the Mountain View-based tech giant’s Gemini AI models with the large data repository of the...

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  Realme Schedules ‘The Dark Horse of AI’ Event for October 25 to Reveal AI Strategy

  Realme announced that it will hold an event called 'The Dark Horse of AI' this week, where it will share its artificial intelligence (AI) strategy. The event is scheduled for October 25, and the consumer tech brand is expected to announce its strategic partnership with Google and Qualcomm. Additionally, the company will also share details about the...

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  Dharmendra Pradhan Meets Singapore PM To Strengthen Educational Ties

  They explored partnerships in deep tech, digitalisation, healthcare, and sustainability, aligning with the goals of NEP 2020 to enhance access to quality higher education and global opportunities for Indian students.

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  Vodafone Partners With Google to Promote AI Phones and Services

  The 10-year expansion of an existing partnership will see Vodafone promote Google’s cloud storage subscriptions, including Google One AI Premium, which gives access to the Gemini chatbot, Vodafone said in a statement on Tuesday.

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  Meta Reportedly Partnering With Arm to Bring Advanced AI Capabilities to Smartphones

  Meta Connect 2024, the company’s developer conference, took place on Wednesday. During the event, the social media giant unveiled several new artificial intelligence (AI) features and wearable devices. Apart from that Meta reportedly also announced a partnership with the tech giant Arm on building special small language models (SLMs). These AI mo...

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  Snapchat Partners With Google to Deploy My AI Powered by Gemini, Adds Computer Vision Capabilities

  Snapchat has partnered with Google Cloud to bring the capabilities of its artificial intelligence (AI) model Gemini to My AI. Announced on Tuesday, the strategic partnership has allowed the social media platform to add computer vision capabilities as well as improved processing of text, audio, and code. As per the Mountain View-based tech giant, Sn...

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  Google Will Fund Global AI Education At The Cost Of 120M Dollars: Sundar Pichai

  Pichai announced "Global AI Opportunity Fund" at the event and said that the AI education will be done in local languages, in partnerships with nonprofits and NGOs.