The revival of the economy will come from helping merchants, retailers and brands reboot their businesses and tap into the heightened demand being generated online due to the Covid-19-induced lockdown in India, according to a top Amazon executive. The Seattle-headquartered online retailer which had seen its operations come to a grinding halt when the nationwide […]
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Microsoft Azure Heads IoT Platform Research Report, Edging AWS
News Microsoft Azure Heads IoT Platform Research Report, Edging AWS By David Ramel 05/29/2020 Microsoft Azure outpaced perennial cloud computing champion Amazon Web Services (AWS) as the top Internet of Things (IoT) platform in a new research report. While market leader AWS almost always takes top honors in such cloud surveys and reports, Azure was […]
Merchants, retailers and brands to revive India’s economy: Amazon India head
The revival of India’s economy will be driven by merchants, retailers and brands rebooting their businesses by tapping into the rising demand for online commerce which is induced by the lockdown, said a top Amazon executive. “Between the reduced footfalls in physical stores and increased online demand, we need to make sure that in totality […]
Paytm moves Delhi HC claiming telecom companies not preventing phishing activity over their networks
One97 Communications, which runs the online payment platform Paytm, has moved the Delhi High Court alleging that telecom service providers are not blocking fraudsters who are defrauding its customers by “phishing” activities over the various mobile networks. Paytm has claimed that millions of its customers have been defrauded by the phishing activities over the mobile […]
Trump’s move against social media firms unlikely to change India’s stand
Illustration: Rahul Awasthi US President Donald Trump’s executive order diluting the immunity enjoyed by social media companies is unlikely to change India’s stand on making firms such as Twitter and Facebook more responsible and accountable for content posted on their platforms. India has been facing a challenge of misinformation on a large scale and has […]
ETtech Top 5: Online grocery consolidation, fashion retail makeover, Wipro’s new CEO & more
Happy Friday! The weekend is here. But we still don’t have a clue on what Monday is going to like. The government is yet to announce whether it’ll extend or lift the lockdown. Meanwhile, India’s online grocery market, which is expected to drive e-commerce growth in 2020, may be heading for consolidation. Paytm Mall-Grofers potential […]
Everything You Should Know About Container Security
Containers are a popular solution for running software in a new environment, like a testing environment. They “contain” the entire runtime environment, including an application, all its dependencies, its configuration files, and its libraries. Containers are superior to virtualization in many ways, since they involve fewer components and can be run with far fewer resources. […]
Big Data Making Massive Strides On COVID-19 Battle
Harvard Business Review authors Julie Shah and Neel Shah have written an article on the benefits of big data in the COVID-19 crisis. They say that big data could be vital to our fight against the disease. “How can we get there? We believe the answer lies in computation. We need to put as much […]
Google to block notification spam with new Chrome feature
Google has announced the launch of a new default anti-notification spam system which will aim to protect Chrome users from abusive notifications. The system, known as the ‘quieter notifications UI’, has been an opt-in feature since February but will be rolled out as a default setting in July. In a post on the Chromium blog, Google explained […]
ITC Hotels partners with Swiggy for home delivery of food
ITC Hotels said on Friday that it has partnered with the on-demand delivery platform Swiggy to offer ITC’s dining options to customers in the comfort of their home. ITC Hotels said Swiggy will enable ‘no contact’ deliveries on all pre-paid orders, which involves a delivery partner leaving the food at the doorstep rather than an […]