Your large archive of videos to index is ever-expanding, thus you have been evaluating Microsoft Video Indexer and decided that you want to take your relationship with it to the next level by scaling up. In general, scaling shouldn’t be difficult, but when you first face such process you might not be sure what is […]
Archives for January 2020
Fueling intelligent energy with IoT
At Microsoft, building a future that we can all thrive in is at the center of everything we do. On January 16, as part of the announcement that Microsoft will be carbon negative by 2030, we discussed how advances in human prosperity, as measured by GDP growth, are inextricably tied to the use of energy. […]
Club Factory accused of selling drugs without prescription
Chinese online retailer Club Factory, which was embroiled in a controversy, for allegedly sending goods to Indian consumers directly from China under the guise of gifts, has now been accused of selling Schedule H drugs on its platform without medical prescription. The office of the joint commisioner of Food & Drug Adminstration in Greater Mumbai […]
Zomato, Swiggy make ordering food costlier
Consumers who order food online are paying more for it. Food delivery apps Zomato and Swiggy – which control the market – have raised delivery fees over the last six months, introduced dynamic discounting, tightened order cancellation rules and hiked prices of their loyalty programmes. Along with reduced discounts overall, this has hit order numbers, […]
Sachin Bansal bets Flipkart fortune on banking services
Sachin Bansal, who acquired microfinance firm Chaitanya India last September after his momentous Flipkart exit, travelled to Jagalur, a small town in Karnataka, recently for a branch visit and decided to check out the competition, a government-owned regional bank. Jagalur, about 250km from Bengaluru, has a population of 25,000. The regional bank’s offices here were […]
Paytm moves against fraudsters, files FIR
To fight the rising menace of online fraud by cyber crooks resulting in consumers losing money, Paytm Payments Bank — which houses the Paytm e-wallet — has handed over 3,500 numbers to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai), the ministry of home affairs (MHA) and CERT-In, the cybersecurity agency. It has also filed a […]
CAIT seeks probe into business models of 16 online platforms, e-commerce firms
A traders’ association has urged the government to probe the business models of 16 technology startups and ecommerce companies, including Flipkart, Amazon, Zomato, Swiggy and Oyo, arguing that incurring huge yearly losses and earning revenue were not healthy business practices. The Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) wrote to commerce minister Piyush Goyal on Thursday, […]
Amazon Music crosses 55 million subscribers globally
Amazon‘s music streaming service ‘Amazon Music‘ has reached 55 million subscribers globally closing in on Apple Music which has over 60 million users. “Our strategy is unique and, like everything we do at Amazon, starts with our customers. We have always been focused on expanding the marketplace for music streaming by offering music listener’s unparalleled […]
Parliamentary panel invites comments on personal data protection bill
A Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) set up to study the Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019, has invited comments from stakeholders. Those who want to submit their views must do so in three weeks. The submissions would form part of the records of the committee and will be treated as confidential, the notice said. Those who […]
Top DevOps Trends that Will Matter in 2020 For Your Business
Have you ever heard of the most effective DevOps e.g. Development Operations practices? If you haven’t, then you should start to care about implementing DevOps infrastructure into your business as it helps to deliver applications or any software faster and effectively while spending fewer team efforts. Furthermore, thanks to such benefits this field of development […]