From the Editor's Desk It's perhaps a sign of our hyper-competitive times that international car companies are falling all over each other in announcing when they will launch fully autonomous cars. Wait, wasn't this supposed to be a breakthrough technology pioneered by Google, still very much in the R&D phase? Suddenly, everyone from Tesla to Nissan to Toyota is giving estimated dates of launch for their automated cars. What about the regulators? What about the ethical dilemma when a car is in the situation of an unavoidable accident? What about public opinion, when such a case does eventually arise? There's a lot that needs to be resolved before autonomous cars become a regular feature on roads. And that's just in the developed world. The developing world training data set is something else Indian road conditions could easily because Google's self-driving car to self-destruct! - Comment
In 2015, 2 in every 3 PE investment transactions were in the IT sector: Ola, Paytm conducted big funding rounds The IT sector has been a key driver of private investment as well as merger and acquisition (M&A) deals in the country over the years and this year was no different. Indeed, preliminary data collated by VCCEdge, the research platform of VCCircle, shows that dealmaking in 2015 got even more concentrated in the technology sector at large.
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