SBI, Hitachi Group to bring digital payment platform in India via JV

The JV will provide comprehensive suite of payment options to customers and merchants focussing on areas such as roll-out of a nationwide card acceptance infrastructure, quick response (QR) code acceptance, Unified Payment Interface (UPI), mass transit sector and e-commerce businesses.

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Mandatory data localisation could hurt India’s GDP growth: Broadband India Forum

The panel felt that having to store vast amounts of data within the country, whether exclusively or as a copy, would have an adverse socio-economic impact on innovation, information and technology access, and trade.

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Aeris, IIT BHU to launch Internet of Things – Centre of Excellence

Noida: Aeris, a technology player in the Internet of Things (IoT) said it has collaborated with Malaviya Centre for Incubation, Innovation and Entrepreneurship (MCIIE) and Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi to establish a state-of-the-art ‘Internet of Things – Centre of Excellence’ (CoE) on the IIT BHU campus. All entities aim to jointly address the pressing need in India to develop workers’ skills, accelerate innovation and increase entrepreneurship in emerging technologies like IoT. “The relationship between MCIIE and Aeris will allow IIT BHU students and entrepreneurs to work more efficiently…

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