By Aman Taneja & Anirudh Rastogi, Ikigai LawWith more than another week of nationwide lockdown to go, and the Indian economy continuing to face unprecedented batterings due to businesses being shut for more than amonth, the prohibition on the sale of liquor has become a contentious issue. Keeping practical issues like social distancing and the […]
Archives for April 2020
Coming soon: E-commerce platform for small traders
The Department for Promotion of Industry & Internal Trade (DPIIT) along with small retailers group Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) are setting up an e-commerce platform to help the local kirana stores take orders online for essentials and provide last mile contactless delivery. In a media release by CAIT, it said apart from DPIIT […]
Blockchain’s role in COVID-19 response and recovery
<!– –> Share this post: More than any event in our lifetime, the COVID-19 global pandemic underscores the interconnectedness of our world. It also throws a very harsh light on a troubling fact: at a time when we need rapid, coordinated action and collaboration, massive amounts of critical information continue to be trapped in hardened […]
Slack brings data residency to the UK
Slack is launching data residencies in Europe and the UK so organisations can have greater control over their data by choosing where it is stored. The announcement follows the launch of residencies in Germany, France, Australia, and Japan in October. Traditionally Slack stores data in the US, but to help its global customers have more […]
ETtech Top 5: Urban India flocks to TikTok, Jio-Facebook’s differing policy views & more
Happy Friday! Thanks to the lockdown, urban India is glued to TikTok. Some users are posting goofy videos while confined in their homes. Illustration: Rahul Awasthi No more ‘cringe-worthy’ Until recently, a section of online users frowned upon TikTok’s content and labelled it “cringe-worthy” even as users from tier-II and -III cities gained rewards and […]
India’s once lavish weddings are now taking place on Zoom
By Saritha Rai Sushen Dang, 26, and his fiancee, Keerti Narang, dreamed of making their wedding an affair to remember — but not like this. Instead of hundreds of guests descending on a wildlife resort for a multi-day revelry with cocktail parties and elaborate feasts, the couple got married over the video conferencing app Zoom. […]
How cloud native resilience is leading the way forward
This is a guest post by Sean Kerner. Like all other areas of technology, cloud native has been impacted, with everyone working from home and major event cancellations, including the KubeCon EU 2020 event that has now been optimistically rescheduled to August. KubeCon is the premier global event held twice a year, for the cloud […]
Google says all advertisers will now be subject to verification checks
Google has announced that, starting this summer, all advertisers will have to be verified before they are allowed to buy ad space on the search engine’s platform. The announcement is Google’s latest effort to make their advertising practices more transparent, following the recent surge in online coronavirus scams, which take advantage of users’ fear of contracting the […]
Mark Zuckerberg just gave Asia’s richest man a sorely needed win
By P R Sanjai, Baiju Kalesh and Manuel Baigorri With the pandemic battering assets and oil nosediving, Indian tycoon Mukesh Ambani needed a win to stem the investor exodus from Reliance Industries, the energy conglomerate he’s been trying to reinvent. This week, Facebook and its Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg delivered just that. The U.S. […]
Online IoT Marketplace, Ioterra, Emerges Independent from Tech Company Acquisition
On March 31, 2020 StoneAge Inc, a manufacturer of industrial waterblast tools and automated equipment, acquired Breadware Inc., an Internet of Things engineering consultancy. Ioterra, a division within Breadware, was not included in the acquisition and has emerged as an independent company. Ioterra is an online marketplace for companies to buy and sell services and […]