Archives for January 2019

U.S.-based electronic cigarette company Juul Labs is hoping to launch its products in India by late 2019, a person familiar with the strategy told Reuters, marking one of its boldest bets to expand away from its home turf. After recruiting Uber India executive Rachit Ranjan as a senior public policy strategist, Juul this month hired […]

Cisco has confirmed its commitment to the IoT, with the announcement of new developer tools, networking products and partnerships to establish its position in the IoT world. The first major facilitator is the launch of its Catalyst industrial switches and integrated services routers that have been specifically built for IoT environments. Both tools are managed […]

SAP has unveiled its fourth quarter financials, presenting year-on-year revenue growth of 9%. The company said it met or exceeded all expectations, although has made the decision to restructure its business to take advantage of new opportunities on the horizon. Operating profit increased by 22% over the entire year, with new cloud bookings up a […]

In my last blog post, I talked about how we are seeing more and more use cases where customers are using multiple clouds to build the next generation of digital experiences. It’s clear to me that many of these cloud use cases involve successfully spanning across multiple environments on and off-premises. For example, this week […]

Google, Facebook , Twitter and Mozilla must do more to combat fake news as Europeans head towards an election or the companies will face the threat of regulatory action, the European Commission said on Tuesday. Companies and trade bodies representing the advertising industry signed up to a voluntary code of conduct in October to ward […]

Slack, the business messaging service challenging email, now has more than 10 million daily active users, its parent company said on Tuesday. The number of paying customers using Slack has risen by more than 50% over the past five years to over 85,000, Slack said in a blog post. Slack, launched in 2013, allows teams […]

Pinterest, the owner of the image search website known for the food and fashion photos that its users post, has hired Goldman Sachs Group and JPMorgan Chase to lead its initial public offering (IPO) later this year, people familiar with the matter said on Tuesday. Pinterest’s IPO preparations come at a time when social media […]

Soft skills, especially creativity, is becoming vital in today’s workplace. And so are factors like pay transparency, flexibility to work where & when employees want, and new ways to tackle workplace harassment. These are the findings of a LinkedIn survey of over 5,000 talent professionals in 35 countries, including more than 400 in India. While […]

Amazon and Walmart-owned Flipkart have told mobile phones, electronics and other companies, which sell their wares exclusively on these platforms, that they will be able to operate like they do now — albeit with some tweaks and rephrasing of agreements — once the revised ecommerce FDI norms come into effect. Two senior industry executives said […]

Paytm has launched hotel bookings on its platform and acquired NightStay, which offers deals on last-minute bookings at luxury hotels, as the Alibaba-backed payments and ecommerce company expands its travel business. Paytm said it plans to invest Rs 500 crore in scaling up its travel operations and has partnered with more than 5,000 hotels across […]