Illustration: Rahul Awasthi Food delivery platforms Swiggy and Zomato, online services marketplace Urban Company and e-grocer Grofers have asked frontline staff to mandatorily use the government’s Aarogya Setu contact tracing app, while e-commerce heavyweights Amazon and Flipkart have also recommended that their workers do the same, despite concerns over the app’s privacy and security. “Since […]
Archives for April 2020
Reliance Jio & Facebook differ on key policy issues
Illustration: Rahul Awasthi Facebook could find itself sparring with Reliance Jio in policy debates over how data is collected, stored and shared in India, said legal experts, as the two technology giants differ markedly in their stance on these issues. The American social media company, which is paying $5.7 billion for a minority stake in […]
Application Performance Is Top Barrier to SD-WAN, Report Says
News Application Performance Is Top Barrier to SD-WAN, Report Says By David Ramel 04/23/2020 Cloud wide-area networking (WAN) specialist Aryaka has published a new report that reveals application performance is the top barrier to the adoption of software-defined wide-area networking (SD-WAN) technology. The company announced the report yesterday (April 22), stating it “reveals application performance, […]
Presentation: Privacy Architecture for Data-Driven Innovation
Transcript Bhajaria: Let’s try and define what privacy means. Unlike security, and a lot of you who work in tech companies or even who do not work in tech companies have an intuitive sense as to what security means: a credit card breach, identity theft. There’s a very intuitive definition. Privacy is harder to define. […]
View: Only time will tell if Jio-Facebook deal is beneficial for India
By Nehaa Chaudhari & Arpit Gupta, Ikigai Law With its Rs 43,574 crore investment, Facebook is now Reliance Jio’s largest minority shareholder. This was accompanied by a pact between WhatsApp and Reliance Retail to boost the latter’s JioMart platform. In July 2019, Facebook invested in Meesho, an Indian social commerce company that connects buyers and […]
Expedia to boost liquidity with $3.2 billion capital raise, names new CEO
Expedia Group said on Thursday it was raising $3.2 billion in fresh capital to boost its liquidity, in an effort to ride out a coronavirus-driven collapse in travel demand. The company also named Vice Chairman Peter Kern as its chief executive officer and said it would abandon its dividend, implement furloughs and reduce work-week programs […]
Amazon woos offline stores after Facebook-Jio deal
A day after the mega announcement of Facebook investing $5.7 billion in Reliance Jio Platforms, which would involved the two companies coming together to enable commerce through neighbourhood stores, Amazon India made another push to integrate with local retailers to propel its offline strategy. Amazon said on Thursday said it was growing its ‘Local Shops […]
Millions of vulnerable people to benefit from new IoT monitoring service
Memo Hub® monitors a person’s daily activity and flags potential minor issues before they become a crisis. During the current pandemic, it’s critical to support vulnerable people’s safety and wellbeing especially when alone for extended periods. The service is enabled by Eseye’s AnyNet Connectivity Management solution which delivers more than 99% uptime to the Memo […]
ETtech Top 5: Startups to cut more jobs, Facebook dials Jio & more
Hello everyone, It’s appraisal time. And all the hard work you’ve put in over last year may still not get you the rewards you were expecting. But don’t take it too hard, especially when companies all over the country are handing out pink slips. Illustration: Rahul Awasthi More layoffs in store Technology startups are likely […]
AWS launches automated data transfer service AppFlow
Amazon Web Services has launched an automated SaaS data transfer services, called AppFlow, to boost data privacy and security for its customers. AppFlow is a fully managed service that automates the bidirectional flow of data between AWS and SaaS applications, without the need to write integration code. The service also works with AWS PrivateLink to […]