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US-based tech group urges Trump to overcome digital trade barriers

The Dollar Business Bureau A US-based technology group Information Technology Industry Council (ITI) has prodded the Trump government to take steps in overcoming barriers in digital trade and alleged that various countries including China and India are biased in their policies which unfairly disadvantage US companies.  In addition, the technology group named countries like Canada, Indonesia, Russia, South Korea, Mexico and Vietnam, which have followed discriminatory policies against American companies.  “Multiple foreign governments have turned to discriminatory or otherwise harmful policies that unfairly disadvantage American companies and impede the ability of technology products and services to drive growth,” ITI said in a report to the President.  The countries in which rules that treat foreign and domestic companies differently are Colombia, China, India, Indonesia, Russia, South Korea and ...

Industry 4.0 necessary to hike mfg share in GDP : Experts

The Dollar Business Bureau  Indian industry cannot ignore adopting Industry 4.0 and it has to focus more on making use of green technologies and best practices followed the world over, experts opined. This reaction comes in the wake of the Indian government setting its sights to increasing the share of manufacturing from 17 to 25 percent of GDP. And the government intends to do so in order to create millions of jobs and to push the country’s economic growth.  Speaking to the media about aiming for an increased economic share in GDP, Hospira Healthcare Managing Director, Srini Srinivasan said, “To achieve this target, Indian industry has to adopt Industry 4.0 as it is important to boost manufacturing,". He also added that adopting Industry 4.0 ...

Google to set up Wi-Fi at 400 Indian railway stations in India

Source: PTI Google has announced plans to make internet accessible to one crore passengers at 100 busiest railway stations in India by the end of next year and will later expand it to 300 other stations, making it one of the largest public Wi-Fi projects in the world. “I'm very proud to announce that it's the train stations of India that are going to help get millions of people online. In the past year, 100 million people in India started using the internet for the first time,” Google's India-born CEO Sunder Pichai said in a blog post on Sunday after his meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. This means there are now more internet users in India than in every country in ...

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