Archives for January 2019

Amazon spent $14.19 million on lobbying the U.S. government in 2018, according to a regulatory filing, beating its year-ago record, as large U.S. technology companies pushed back on issues such as privacy, immigration and new tariffs. Issues of interest to Amazon also included healthcare plans, drug prices and food safety that were discussed with the […]

For a company that is known to dominate the global online advertising market along with social networking giant Facebook, Google has itself emerged as one of the top advertisers in India over the last two years. The online search giant was among India’s largest advertisers in 2017-18, shelling out huge dollars to create awareness about, […]

Adobe has acquired Allegorithmic, makers of ‘Substance’ which is the industry standard for 3D textures and material creation in game and video post-production, for an undisclosed sum. By combining France-based Allegorithmic’s ‘Substance’ 3D design tools with Adobe Creative Cloud’s imaging, video and motion graphics tools, Adobe will enable video game creators, VFX artists working in […]

Hulu is cutting the price of its most popular monthly plan by $2 to $5.99, making it one of the most affordable video streaming services in the United States as the company locks horns with Netflix and Amazon to lure more subscribers. As part of changes announced on Wednesday, Hulu will also hike the price […]

By earning its first-ever Oscar nomination for best picture with “Roma,” Netflix has propelled itself into Hollywood’s club of elite filmmakers, but the streaming giant’s hybrid business model still hasn’t won over its sharpest critics. Netflix on Tuesday earned a whopping 10 nominations for Alfonso Cuaron’s cinematic love letter to his childhood in Mexico City, […]

A1 Digital, a subsidiary of the A1 Telekom Austria Group, and BigML, the leading Machine Learning platform company based in USA and Spain, have agreed on a strategic partnership for joint Machine Learning solutions. Companies can now use leading Machine Learning solutions based on the European cloud platform Exoscale. With the partnership with BigML, A1 Digital […]

China’s cyber watchdog has deleted more than 7 million pieces of online information as well as 9,382 mobile apps, and it criticised tech giant Tencent‘s news app for spreading “vulgar information”. The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) said in a statement on its website the action was part of a clean-up of unacceptable and harmful […]

The government in Durham County, N.C., was spending hours and hours manually provisioning its network and keeping security policies current, so it decided two and a half years ago to upgrade for the sake of efficiency and security. Since then, the government’s IT staff of four has migrated its traditional point-to-point network to a more […]

Google has announced the timeline of the transition from classic Hangouts to Chat and Meet for its paying G Suite customers. The tech giant said that Hangouts retirement will start in October 2019. Starting April 16, Chat will become available on the web for G Suite domains that have classic Hangouts enabled, but it won’t […]