Traveling knows know gender.

This fact  was ther highlight at Airbnb’s inaugural #WomenInTravel industry dialogue that celebrated the power of Filipino women in late February, a few days before International Women’s Month.

It featured five speakers who discussed how traveling challenged stereotypes and broke boundaries, as more women take action to uplift and empower new generations of Filipinas in the travel and tourism industry.

Among the guest speakers were Mich Goh, Airbnb’s head of Public Policy for Southeast Asia, India, Hong Kong, and Taiwan; Quezon City Mayor Joy Belmonte; Anne Jeaneth Casalme, Philippine Commission on Women Gender and Development representative; Noelle Wenceslao,…

Jio Platforms has bagged a Rs 350-crore contract to manage and enhance the cloud services of the government’s National Informatics Centre (NIC), sources told ET.

The Reliance Industries Group firm has been selected to enhance NIC national cloud services and will be deployed at the National Data Centre in Delhi, Pune and Bhubaneswar. NIC is the government’s technology backbone. Jio’s contract includes five years of onsite maintenance.

“Jio has won the tender and has started working on it,” a source from Jio told ET. “We are starting with managing their cloud services in Bhubaneswar and Hyderabad. NIC Services Inc. (NICSI) had requested proposals from Indian cloud partners for managing NIC cloud solutions under Meghraj 2.0.”

“They sought a system integrator for enhancing…

Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the newest and most exciting fields in technology, and many start-ups are vying for market share. However, competition is fierce and businesses that cannot sustainably generate revenue risk disappearing. This is the case with Stability AI, a startup company that has built a great reputation thanks to its open source image generator, Stable Diffusion.

Funding and leadership issues

Stability AI has raised $100 million in the past year, but has spent a lot of those funds without being able to generate enough revenue to offset high server costs and rapid employee recruitment around the world. This has prompted the company to search for new executives who can help with sales and generate much-needed revenue.

However, it’s not just funding issues…

In order to maintain and improve the cloud services provided by the government’s National Informatics Centre (NIC), Jio Platforms has won a contract worth Rs 350 crore, sources informed ET.

The company from the Reliance Industries Group has been chosen to improve the NIC’s national cloud services and will be installed at the National Data Centres in Delhi, Pune, and Bhubaneswar. The technological backbone of the government is NIC. Five years of onsite maintenance are covered per Jio’s contract.

A source from Jio informed ET that “Jio has won the tender and has begun working on it.” “We are starting with overseeing their cloud services in Hyderabad and Bhubaneswar. For the management of NIC cloud solutions under Meghraj 2.0, NIC Services Inc. (NICSI) had requested proposals…

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