Amazon has reiterated its focus on digitising micro, small and medium-sized businesses in India and said it was launching new features to support these efforts. This comes at a time when large players such as Reliance Industries’ JioMart and Walmart-owned e-commerce company Flipkart are also stepping up on onboarding neighbourhood stores to build more hyperlocal […]
Archives for July 2020
Apple quarterly profit jumps on gains in services, wearables
Apple on Thursday delivered blowout quarterly results, reporting revenue gains across every category and in every geography as consumers working and learning from home during the Covid-19 pandemic turned to its products and services. The report topped Wall Street expectations, with even long-overshadowed categories like iPads and Macs getting a boost. Shares rose as much […]
Google ad rebound offsets Alphabet’s first-ever sales drop
Google‘s ad sales have recovered since plummeting in March during the coronavirus pandemic, parent Alphabet said on Thursday, easing concerns about its first quarterly sales slide in its 16 years as a public company. Alphabet shares were barely changed at $1,552, above their pre-pandemic high, after it said revenue fell 2% in the second quarter, […]
Facebook smashes revenue estimates amid pandemic, forecasts ad growth
Facebook beat analysts’ estimates for quarterly revenue on Thursday and forecast similar growth ahead, as businesses tapped its digital ads tools despite an unprecedented boycott and the economic upheaval of the coronavirus pandemic. Facebook shares jumped 7% in extended trading after the world’s biggest social network posted revenue growth of 11%, its slowest ever but […]
Amazon posts biggest profit ever at height of pandemic in US
Amazon on Thursday posted the biggest profit in its 26-year history as online sales and its lucrative business supporting third-party merchants surged during the coronavirus pandemic. Shares of Amazon, the world’s largest online retailer, rose 5% in after-hours trade. While rival brick-and-mortar retailers have had to shut stores during government-imposed lockdowns, Amazon hired 175,000 people […]
Cisco urges patching flaws in data-center, SD-WAN gear
Cisco has issued a number of critical security advisories for its data center manager and SD-WAN offering customers should deal with now. On the data center side, the most critical – with a threat score of 9.8 out of 10 – involves a vulnerability in the REST API of Cisco Data Center Network Manager (DCNM) could […]
Doki Backdoor Infiltrates Docker Servers in the Cloud
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How to find and fix vulnerable default credentials on your network
Network appliances and devices that still have their default credentials present a risk to your organization, says SecurityHQ. Image: iStockphoto/scyther5 Think of all the routers, switches, appliances, and other devices that may be available and accessible on your network. Then consider all the ones that require some type of account to authenticate and gain access. […]
Windows Virtual Desktop Boosts Azure Integration, Teams Meetings
News Windows Virtual Desktop Boosts Azure Integration, Teams Meetings By David Ramel 07/30/2020 Microsoft has made generally available two new features of Windows Virtual Desktop: Azure portal integration for easier deployment and management, and audio/video redirection for Microsoft Teams to boost the meetings experience. Aimed at enterprises, the Azure-based Windows Virtual Desktop system virtualizes the […]
Terbine Launches Global IoT Data Subscription Service
Over 30,000 data feeds from all 50 states and 100+ countries now accessible via a single portal, searchable by both human and AI “users” saving time and effort in data acquisition for companies. Terbine announced today that it is offering subscriptions to its global IoT data trove to commercial users. The continually expanding index provides […]