<!– –> Share this post: I always say that enterprise blockchain is a team sport. And I’m often asked, “Jerry, what does that mean?” Blockchain is a technology that draws its strength and stability from the team — or in this context — the group or consortium of organizations working towards a common goal. Not […]
Archives for February 2020
$1billion investment is not to provide deep discounting or cover losses: Amazon India
Ecommerce giant, Amazon India, is categorical that the $1 billion investment announced by Jeff Bezos during his recent trip to India would be used for long-term development of its operations and not for deep discounting or cover losses. “A lot of our investment is focused on the long-term and if we only look at the […]
Predictions Around Blockchain and Data for IT leaders
Blockchain technologies will ignite the era of decentralization, where customers own their data and decide how it is used. IT leaders should start to rethink their strategies. Blockchain has introduced alternative methods for tracking and managing customer data. IT leaders need to understand the direction of decentralized technologies — or risk falling behind. Scan the […]
HPE snaps up edge-to-cloud security startup Scytale
HPE is building on its edge to cloud security strategy by snapping up Scytale, an open-source security platform that runs across on-premise, cloud and container-based infrastructure. Scytale is a San Francisco-based startup that looks at application-to-application identity and access management. The company was founded in 2017 by Sunil James, Emiliano Berenbaum, and Andrew Jessup. The […]
Oracle broadens geographic reach with five new cloud data centres
Oracle is expanding its cloud data centre footprint in a bid to draw in customers by providing them with data sovereignty. The corporation announced on Monday that it has successfully added cloud data centres in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia and has expanded on existing centres in Japan, Australia, Canada, and the Netherlands. This falls into Oracle’s […]
SIMCom Fully-Committed to Qualcomm’s 9205 Cat-M1 for 2020 and Beyond
Supports GNSS, Narrowband, Global LTE Bands and optional 2G GSM. In advance of millions of Low-Power, Wide Area (LPWA) massive IoT deployments around the world, SIMCom recently formalized agreements with Qualcomm® to secure its position as the largest buyer of the 9205 chipsets in 2020 thus far. In addition to recently launching the world’s smallest […]
Paytm eyes onboarding 10M merchants with addition of PoS machine, new solutions
Paytm on Tuesday said it aims to add close to 10 million merchants to its platform over the next 12-18 months as it brings new features to its payments platform. The company, which has introduced a new all-in-one payment gateway and business solutions as well as an Android-based point of sale (POS) machine, currently has […]
Nilekani says MDR would have trended to zero even without government
Infosys Chairman Nandan Nilekani said the merchant discount rate (MDR) would have trended to zero even if the government had not gotten involved and said payment providers in India should focus on budget payments that will help small merchants across the country. MDR is a fee that is levied by banks on merchants for the […]
How Walmart’s taking on Amazon, with help from Indian engineers
Amazon has hit almost every US retailer adversely. An exception has been Walmart. At over $500 billion in revenue, it remains more than twice as big as Amazon. In 2019, its share price rose 27%, much faster than Amazon’s and among the fastest in the Dow Jones index. The stock price surge actually began in […]
Delhi’s digital poll war: ‘Lage raho’ vs ‘Dil mein’
Digital campaigning for Delhi’s election scheduled on February 8 is a battle between the two most proficient political messengers on social media — BJP and AAP. A portacabin inside Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal’s official Civil Lines residence is Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) digital headquarters. The messaging this time, says AAP’s social media head Ankit […]