Amazon and Walmart-owned Flipkart have told mobile phones, electronics and other companies, which sell their wares exclusively on these platforms, that they will be able to operate like they do now — albeit with some tweaks and rephrasing of agreements — once the revised ecommerce FDI norms come into effect. Two senior industry executives said […]
Archives for January 2019
Paytm enters hotel booking business, buys NightStay
Paytm has launched hotel bookings on its platform and acquired NightStay, which offers deals on last-minute bookings at luxury hotels, as the Alibaba-backed payments and ecommerce company expands its travel business. Paytm said it plans to invest Rs 500 crore in scaling up its travel operations and has partnered with more than 5,000 hotels across […]
Amazon RDS for Oracle Now Supports SQLT Diagnostics Tool Version 12.2.180725
Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports Oracle SQLTXPLAIN (SQLT) version 12.2.180725 through the use of the SQLT option. You can improve SQL query performance by using the Oracle EXPLAIN PLAN statement, and looking at diagnostic information on the execution plan of a SQL statement. The Oracle SQLT utility produces a report that includes execution plans, […]
Japan to Hunt Down Citizens’ Insecure IoT Devices
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2019 and Beyond: The (Expanded) RSAC Advisory Board Weighs in on What’s Next: Pt. 2
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Automated Best-First Feature Selection
In this third post about feature selection scripts in WhizzML, we will introduce the third and final algorithm, Best-First Feature Selection (Best-First). In the first post, we discussed Recursive Feature Selection, and in the second post, we covered Boruta. You can find this script in the BigML Script Gallery If you want to know more about it, visit its info page. Best-First […]
10 Tech Startups to Watch for 2019
These hot startups are finding innovative ways to use technologies such as AI and IoT to help businesses work better, and in addressing the problems of the world. 1 of 11 It’s something of a tradition for technology publications to put out lists of startups to watch in January, and InformationWeek is no stranger to […]
Researchers Allege ‘Systemic’ Privacy, Security Flaws in Popular IoT Devices
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The race to lock down industrial control systems | Salted Hash Ep 44
Guest host Juliet Beauchamp and CSO senior writer J.M. Porup talk about the challenges around securing the systems and networks used to control industrial plants and infrastructures.
Walmart’s Flipkart warns of major ‘customer disruption’ if new India rules not delayed
Walmart Inc’s online retailer Flipkart has told the Indian government the company faces the risk of “significant customer disruption” if the implementation of new curbs for e-commerce is not delayed by six months, a source told Reuters. India’s new foreign investment restrictions will, from Feb. 1, bar e-commerce companies from selling products from firms in […]