A group of more than 2,000 online sellers has filed an antitrust case against Amazon in India, alleging the U.S. company favours some retailers whose online discounts drive independent vendors out of business, a legal filing seen by Reuters showed. The case presents a new regulatory challenge for Amazon in India, where it has committed […]
Archives for August 2020
Cisco Webex tackles background noise with BabbleLabs acquisition
Cisco is planning to integrate artificial intelligence (AI) technology from BabbleLabs into its collaboration division to improve the audio quality of participants in Cisco Webex meetings and remove background noise. BabbleLabs specialises in developing AI that can detect speech, distinguish this from background noise, and use speech enhancement tech to improve the quality and clarity of speech.
Spooked by Netflix series ‘Bad Boy Billionaires’, Mehul Choksi moves Delhi HC
Spooked by Netflix’s upcoming web series titled ‘Bad Boy Billionaires‘ featuring Vijay Mallya, Subrata Roy, Harshad Mehta and his nephew Nirav Modi, Mehul Choksi on Wednesday petitioned the Delhi High Court seeking directions to show him the series featuring him before release. Adjourning the matter to Friday, the High Court asked counsel for Netflix to […]
India and other markets to get Facebook News soon
Facebook is planning to launch Facebook News in multiple countries within the next six months to a year, the social media giant said in a blog post on Tuesday. It is considering India and other markets such as the UK, Germany, France and Brazil for the launch. “In each country, we’ll pay news publishers to […]
In Hyderabad, Amazon builds its largest office yet. But not everyone is happy
By Geneva AbdulThe austere building is hardly distinguishable in the landscape of glass and concrete buildings making up Asia’s Silicon Valley, as Hyderabad, India, is known. It is one of Amazon’s latest developments, the online retailer’s largest office building in the world. With plans to cement its place as the center of gravity around which […]
Prepare and certify your devices for IoT Plug and Play
Developing solutions with Azure IoT has never been faster, easier, or more secure. However, the tight coupling and integration between IoT device software and the software that matches it in the cloud can make it challenging to add different devices without spending hours writing device code. IoT Plug and Play can solve this by enabling […]
Lenskart to invest Rs 380cr in 2nd plant, sales go past Titan Eyeplus
Lenskart closed the financial year ending March 2020 with total sales doubling to over Rs 1,000 crore, taking a major lead over the sales of Titan’s eyewear business, which grew at 6% to Rs 544 crore during the same period. Sales of the SoftBank-backed unicorn (startup valued at over $1 billion) had stood at Rs […]
Facebook News to soon pay Indian publishers for their content
Facing political heat in India, the social networking giant on Tuesday said it will pay news publishers in the country soon via its Facebook News to ensure their content is available in the new product. Facebook News, that was launched in the US last year, will soon arrive in the UK, Germany, France, India and […]
Four More Bugs Patched in Microsoft’s Azure Sphere IoT Platform
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AWS Dominates Cloud-Native Study of Kubernetes and Serverless Computing
News AWS Dominates Cloud-Native Study of Kubernetes and Serverless Computing By David Ramel 08/25/2020 Research firm SlashData’s latest cloud-native study sees Amazon Web Services (AWS) figuring prominently among Kubernetes and serverless developers. The firm, which publishes an ongoing series of cloud-native computing reports at the behest of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and just […]