Times Internet, the digital arm of the Times Group, saw its revenues jump 24% to Rs 1,625 crore for the financial year ended March 2020, the company said in its annual report released on Thursday. The growth comes as several of its offerings witnessed strong growth over the past year. Times Internet’s monthly users grew […]
Archives for September 2020
Internet platforms rush to get a pie of growing Insurance market
Illustration: Rahul Awasthi India’s burgeoning internet economy is slowly warming up to the potential of its massively underpenetrated insurance market. The country’s largest consumer internet platforms – from Flipkart to Paytm – are scaling up insurance businesses with the promise of low cost, low commitment and fully digital services as demand for risk coverage rises […]
Influencers may have to verify before pushing advertising
Illustration: Rahul Awasthi Social media influencers and digital marketers could face a bumpy ride as the onus of ensuring the veracity of claims made in advertisements could fall upon them soon. The government’s draft new guidelines targeted at preventing misleading advertisements has an entire section on due diligence to be made by endorsers. It has […]
Razer Gaming Fans Caught Up in Data Leak
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IOWA Evaluation SDK General Availability on GitHub
IoTerop announces the general availability of the IOWA Evaluation SDK and code samples on GitHub. These assets empower developers, accelerating time-to-market, and allowing organizations to see firsthand the benefits of standardized device management. “IOWA’s lightweight M2M device management services have already proved their ability to support IoT solutions and add value in smart metering, lighting […]
The State of Chatbots: Pandemic Edition
Chatbots are currently the biggest use case for AI. Now the COVID-19 pandemic has made them even more compelling given their use in automation and their high level of ROI. When it comes to technologies that got a big boost from the response to the pandemic, probably the first thing that comes to mind is […]
Red Hat and IBM launch OpenShift software marketplace
Red Hat and its parent company IBM have together launched a one-stop-shop marketplace for customers seeking to run OpenShift enterprise applications on their hybrid cloud infrastructures. Red Hat Marketplace offers a broad catalogue of more than 50 open-source software, across a dozen categories, available for enterprises to purchase and deploy, including apps in the areas […]
Data centre provider Equinix hit by ransomware
US data centre provider Equinix has been rocked by a major security incident, with some of its internal company systems compromised by ransomware. The company revealed yesterday that its security teams took immediate action against the threat, notified law enforcement agencies, and are continuing to investigate the nature and scale of the infection. The severity of the attack at […]
Zomato to go public by first half of 2021, as Tiger Global, others join financing round
Deepinder Goyal MUMBAI: Zomato has roped in New York-based investment fund Tiger Global as part of its current fundraising round, the online food delivery platform’s cofounder and CEO Deepinder Goyal said in an email to employees on Thursday. The Gurugram-based firm is also on course to tap the public markets by mid-2021, Goyal added in […]
5G +Wi-Fi 6 Accelerates the Internet of Everything
According a forecast by CAICT, 5G will drive more than ¥8 trillion of emerging spending until 2025. 5G-based new capital construction is in full swing. The ecosystem and industrial chain are speeding up across the board. SIMCom Product Department’s general manager Deng Qianhuai expressed his views on this. IoT Builds a Bridge between the Digital […]