The products included RetailEasy for retail businesses, ServeEasy for restaurant businesses and ManageEasy for distribution businesses. Kumar Rajagopalan, CEO of Retailers Association of India launched the company’s experiential digital store using AI and ML for the traditional retail industry.

Sikka, 52, is among the world's leading experts in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning and would be helping Oracle in the business value and adapt to change, the company based in Redwood Shores, California, said in a statement.

"Very often by talking through what the impact (of data hoarding) can be, (and) by having very open conversations with business executives. The technical team for the most part understands this. It is now about having a conversation with the C-Suite and the boards, as they look at the overall business risk, because that is the job of the board."

A few of its technology initiatives are already led out of India, especially around digital transformation; bank planning local CoE too. Accounting is one such area where Panicker expects its Indian operations to start doing more end-to-end work. The company relies on a mix of campus and lateral hires, focusing on training existing employees on new skills.

The world will see in the first half of year 2020, an option to transfer photos and videos from the social media network directly to other services, starting with Google Photos, said Facebook. The option will be available to users in Ireland. Data transfers will be encrypted with a password prompt before any transaction.

Diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) when he was three years old, Sivaa Menon could only say a few basic words like ‘toilet’ by the time he turned 10. This frustrated him so much that he started having meltdowns. Traditional therapies didn’t work. But six months ago, his mother Preetha found Avaz, an augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) app, which has now given the 11-year-old a voice. He has now learnt to say 10 words.Such apps support or replace natural speech in children with autism, and other developmental disorders, with the use of images, icons and symbols, stored category-wise in folders, as visual cues. These are early intervention apps and their content can be customised to individual needs.

On November 25, a new social network, Cocoon, made its appearance on Apple’s iOS app store just when the world needed it the most to stay closer and 'in touch'. Cocoon’s co-founders Sachin Monga and Alex Cornell had raised $3 million for their Y Combinator-backed startup which led to the new social media buzz. For years, Sachin Monga said, he has been thinking about how to escape Facebook’s dilemma, putting your mom and best friend in the same social network as your most distant acquaintance.Cocoon is a social network for your family. It had been under development with select families and is now open to everyone starting today on Apple iOS, Quartz reports. Just as the name suggests it will be your own private world of your family, a cocoon.