Sino India Etail, an importer for Chinese apparel and lifestyle brand Shein, has withdrawn a petition that had challenged the seizure of hundreds of its packages and the sealing of its warehouse in Mumbai by the Customs department. The company withdrew the writ petition filed in the Bombay High Court against the Office of the […]
Archives for February 2020
Zomato lets go of exclusivity for cloud kitchens
Zomato haswithdrawn exclusivity rights for restaurants operating out of its cloudkitchen facility, according to six brands using the service and emails seen by ET.The move — which essentially allows these restaurants to list on rival platforms such as Swiggy — underlines a major shift in strategy for Zomato, which had pegged exclusive supply on its […]
Paytm to monetise offline merchant base; plans to cut losses by half: CEO
Vijay Shekhar Sharma Financial services and commerce platform Paytm plans to cut annual losses by half over the next two years, CEO Vijay Shekhar Sharma told ET. This will be done by monetising its offline merchant base, scaling its merchant network, and rolling back on discounts across businesses, he said. The SoftBank and Alipay-backed company […]
Survey: Bright SD-WAN Outlook Driven by Cost Reduction, but Security Lags
News Survey: Bright SD-WAN Outlook Driven by Cost Reduction, but Security Lags By David Ramel 02/04/2020 Cato Networks published its fourth State of the WAN report, finding that the outlook for software-defined wide-area networking (SD-WAN) is bright for 2020, driven by organizations seeking to reduce WAN costs. “Most respondents (66 percent) will have some kind […]
7 best practices for managing a multi-cloud environment
Multi-cloud strategies and hybrid IT environments bring a set of challenges that technology leaders might not have expected.
Frost & Sullivan Evaluates Top Priorities in Digital Transformation for Global Companies
Improving customer experience, digital presence and sales and marketing effectiveness are the three major drivers for IT/Telecom investment. Frost & Sullivan’s recent analysis*, measures the current use and future decision-making behavior toward IT and communications, monitors the status of digital transformation (including the implementation plans for emerging technologies such as AI, IoT and blockchain), and […]
Shadow IoT Devices A Major Concern For Corporate Networks
Infoblox Inc., the leader in Secure Cloud-Managed Network Services, today announced new research that exposes the significant threat posed by shadow IoT devices on enterprise networks. The report, titled “What’s Lurking in the Shadows,” surveyed 2,650 IT professionals across the US, UK, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands and UAE to understand the state of shadow IoT […]
Exploring Nuances Of Machine Learning & Personalization In Apps
The market for machine learning is projected to reach $20.8 billion by 2024. It is unbelievable that it was only worth $1.6 billion back in 2017. This means that the market has been growing around 45% a year over the course of a decade. The rapid growth in the machine learning market is largely attributed […]
Drug Discovery Needs AI To Discover More Treatments
Improving human health, longevity, and satisfaction are some of the primary purposes of technology. At first glance, artificial intelligence may feel like a step away from our humanity. But what if it could make us more observant, better able to find hidden connections, and more efficient as we explore the unknown? Drug discovery and clinical […]
The problem with mobile and app voting
It’s the day after the 2020 Iowa caucuses, and the Iowa Democratic Party has yet to announce the winner. The app that precinct leaders were supposed to use to report final tallies recorded inconsistent results. Party leaders blamed a “coding issue” within the app, not a hack or attack. Computerworld’s Lucas Mearian joins Juliet to […]