By Alnoor Peermohamed Amazon India admitted that it faced a technical glitch on Sunday, which exposed the tax reports of some of its sellers to others. The company said this affected a minuscule number of the 400,000 sellers on its platform, and that the issue was rectified soon after sellers flagged it. “On Sunday, some […]
Archives for January 2019
IT Reskilling More Important Than Ever
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OYO debuts OYO Home in Dubai
Hospitality firm OYO has launched its home management service, OYO Home, in Dubai as it plans to introduce the category to other emirates in the UAE. Starting with 40 homes in the Dubai, the hospitality chain plans to ramp up the footprint to 200 homes in next six months, OYO said in a statement. The […]
Payments technology trends to watch out for in 2019
By TR Ramachandran, Visa As we head into 2019, all signs point towards a more digital future for the world of payments. More so for India, a market that has over recent years emerged as a global payment innovation hotbed. Intense competition and innovative payment solutions have been on the rise, all for a share […]
VCs plowed a record $9.3 billion into AI startups last year
By Lizette Chapman Artificial intelligence was a no-brainer bet for humans in 2018. Venture capital funding of AI companies soared 72 percent last year, hitting a record $9.3 billion, according to a new report from PwC and CB Insights. The surge comes after three years of steadily increasing investment, with the average annual increase from […]
Yatra acquires PL Worldways to strengthen its corporate business
Travel company Yatra has announced the acquisition of the corporate travel business of PL Worldways Limited (PLW), a Chennai based corporate travel services provider. “This acquisition will help strengthen Yatra’s foothold in the southern India region along with adding over 100 corporate clients to its existing client base of over 700,” said a statement from […]
AWS OpsWorks Stacks Now Supports Amazon Linux 2, Amazon Linux 2018.03, and Ubuntu 18.04
AWS OpsWorks Stacks helps you manage applications and servers on AWS and on-premises. With OpsWorks Stacks, you can model your application as a stack that contains different layers, such as load balancing, database, and application server. You can deploy and configure Amazon EC2 instances in each layer or connect other resources such as Amazon RDS […]
Cloud take-up growing 32% year-on-year
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Dos and don’ts of designing an efficient Tableau dashboard
Dashboard to its user is what an assistant is his boss. While an assistant helps in managing multiple tasks for his boss, dashboard helps in managing multiple data sources for its user. Your insights are as good as you present your data and dashboards are an excellent mechanism to bring out those insights at a […]
Amazon EC2 X1e Instances are Now Available in the Asia Pacific (Seoul) AWS Region
Starting today, Amazon EC2 X1e instances are available in the Asia Pacific (Seoul) AWS region. Amazon EC2 X1e instances are a part of the Amazon EC2 Memory Optimized instance family, designed for running high-performance databases, in-memory workloads such as SAP HANA, and other memory intensive enterprise applications in the AWS Cloud. X1e instances are powered […]