Microsoft set to create 600 jobs in Dublin

The jobs are the latest boost to the economy following the announcement this week that US recruitment services firm Indeed is adding 500 jobs at its European base in Dublin. Microsoft’s announcement today will also be welcomed after last week’s devastating blow to staff at HP Inc’s Leixlip plant in Co Kildare, where 500 jobs are to go.

Bill Gates and Federal Minister Gerd Muller to speak at TUM

Bill Gates, Co-Chairman of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Gerd MuISller, German Federal Minister of Economic Cooperation and Development, will be featured in the “TUM Speakers Series”. The founder of Microsoft and the politician will meet on February 17, at 4:45 pm, in the Technical University of Munich Audimax to speak with student Nicki Weber about development policy.

[Narain D Batra] India tries a moonshot

Digital India has been called a moonshot project that draws together the best human and private-public capital to achieve a goal that was previously thought to be impossible: Total transformation of society. Digital India, based on Aadhaar, focuses on three fundamental areas — access to digital infrastructure as a utility, services on demand, and digital empowerment of citizens through access to information.