A clutch of venture capital investors including A91 Partners, NewQuest Capital Partners and TR Capital are in separate talks to acquire a minority stake in Hector Beverages, owner of ethnic drinks brand Paper Boat, two people aware of the development said. In this round, Paper Boat plans to raise about $25-30 million at a valuation […]
Archives for March 2019
Grab is expanding India engineering team in its search for a super app
Southeast Asia’s largest ride-hailing app Grab is expanding the scope of its India engineering team to include geomapping and data science as the Singapore-based tech firm looks to offer a super app to its customers in the region, officials said. Grab’s Bengaluru unit, one out its seven engineering and research & development centres, has so […]
Govt tells social media firms not to allow platforms to incite public order
The government asked social media companies to ensure that their platforms are not misused by elements against the country after it told Google and its video platform YouTube to remove video links that pertained to Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman. Google complied immediately with the government directive, said Union Minister for Electronics and Information Technology Ravi […]
Amazon Translate is now available in the AWS Europe (Frankfurt) and Asia Pacific (Seoul) Regions
Amazon Translate is a neural machine translation service that delivers fast, high-quality, and affordable language translation. Neural machine translation is a form of language translation automation that uses deep learning models to deliver more accurate translation than traditional statistical and rule-based translation algorithms.
Amazon Connect Simplifies Adding AWS Lambda Functions to Contact Flows
You can now select any AWS Lambda function available in your AWS account from within the Amazon Connect contact flow editor. AWS Lambda functions are used in contact flows to customize the caller experience by pulling data from an external database, such as a CRM system containing customer information or a database containing order history. […]
Performance Insights Supports T2 and T3 Instance Types
Performance Insights allows both experts and non-experts to detect performance problems with a powerful easy-to-understand dashboard that visualizes database load. It supports Amazon Aurora, RDS for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Oracle. It offers a free tier with 7 days of data retention and a paid long-term data retention option. You can get started by logging […]