How Twilio’s $3.2 billion Segment acquisition transforms the company | ZDNet

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Twilio’s $3.2 billion purchase of Segment is a shot across the broader customer relationship and engagement software industry. The acquisition, announced officially on Monday, gives Twilio a customer data platform (CDP) to combine with its broader communications platform as a service and customer engagement tools. As a result, Twilio can now be connected to every … Read more

Bihar election opinion polls: NDA projected to win 160 seats; BJP to emerge as single-largest party

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(This story originally appeared in on Oct 12, 2020) NEW DELHI: The NDA alliance is likely to emerge as the clear favourite to win the Bihar assembly elections by securing 160 of the 243 seats, according to an opinion poll released by Times Now-CVoter on Monday. The survey, conducted on all 243-assembly seats of the … Read more

LVB board to meet on October 15 to consider rights issue

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NEW DELHI: Cash-strapped Lakshmi Vilas Bank (LVB) on Monday said its board will meet later this week to consider issuance of shares on rights basis to existing shareholders. “A meeting of the board will be held Thursday, October 15, 2020 to consider and approve the issue of securities of the bank to existing shareholders of … Read more

IPL 2020: De Villiers, Chahal and Sundar help RCB hand KKR 82-run thrashing in Sharjah

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It was Virat Kohli the other night against Chennai Super Kings in Dubai and on Monday, it was AB de Villiers single-handedly knocking the wind out of Kolkata Knight Riders as Royal Challengers Bangalore clinched their 2nd win as three days as their Indian Premier League (IPL) 2020 campaign is picking pace at the right … Read more

EC designates 91 seats as sensitive, works to curb money influence

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New Delhi: As many as 91 constituencies in Bihar are learnt to have been designated as ‘expenditure sensitive’ by the poll panel less than three weeks before the state goes to polls to elect 243 members to the state assembly. Over 200 ‘expenditure sensitive pockets’ have also been identified in the poll bound state by … Read more

China tracking Indian underwater activities in Ladakh’s Pangong Tso

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Since the time the Indo-China border standoff began, the People’s Liberation Army Ground Force (PLAGF) has been keeping the surface of Pangong Tso under surveillance through high-speed patrol crafts such as Type 305 and Type 928D boats copied from Swedish CB-90 boats. But latest satellite imagery shows China is now tracking the depths of Pangong … Read more

US says “Quad” nations ready to work with others for free, open Indo-Pacific

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NEW DELHI: An informal grouping bringing together India, Australia and Japan with the United States could be opened to other countries that support a “free and open Indo-Pacific region”, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Stephen Beigun said on Monday. Washington has been pushing for closer collaboration among the members of the so-called Quad grouping as … Read more