Read more about Tata Comm spurts on announcing partnership with Google Cloud on Business Standard. Tata Communications jumped 4.18% to Rs 1,036.50 after the company announced its partnership with Google Cloud to drive cloud adoption and transform Indian businesses.
Bajwa revealed that the last few weeks have seen Google Meet’s day over day growth surpass 60 per cent. Meet’s current usage is over 30 times of what it was in January 2020, according to the company. “Overall, more than 3 million users have been connecting on Meet every day and are spending more than 3 billion minutes together – more than 3,800 years of secure meetings in a single day,” he added. Zoom had a standout year in 2020 thanks to Work From Home. (Image source: Reuters)
While Teams and Google Meet both had break out usage, 2020 was clearly the year of Zoom. From just 10 million daily participants in meetings in December 2019, Zoom’s daily participant numbers had jumped to 200 million by March 2020, and to 300 million by April 2020. More importantly, Zoom’s total revenue in the third quarter of 2020 has jumped by 36 per cent year-over-year to $777.2 million.
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While everyone realises that building a business together can be enormously rewarding for both startups and corporates, the outreach attempts have been few and far between. At the second panel discussion, leaders take on the issues impeding collaboration and joint innovation.
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With India s startup ecosystem on track to produce a hundred unicorns by 2025, the pace of collaboration between startups and big tech is expected to accelerate.
Sequoia Capital s Rajan Anandan, Google Cloud India s Karan Bajwa, WhatsApp India s Abhijit Bose, InfoEdge cofounder Sanjeev Bikhchandani, Portea chief executive Meena Ganesh and Meesho cofounder Vidit Aatrey delve deep into what these collaborations might look like and how they could be strengthened, in a conversation with
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Google Cloud has been on a hiring spree, nabbing executives focusing on winning large enterprise customers in specific industries like finance and telecom and helping the unit expand worldwide.
This year, it also lost several top execs who went to other firms, including former CFO Steffan Tomlinson.
Read below for Google Cloud s biggest hires and departures of the past year.
In July 2019, Google Cloud set the goal of tripling its salesforce over the next few years, but it has since gone on a hiring spree in other areas as well.