Archives for January 2019

A MoneyGram kiosk is seen in New York, U.S. January 3, 2018. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton MoneyGram International is exploring strategic alternatives, including a sale of the money transfer company, a year after a U.S. government panel nixed its $1.2 billion sale to China’s Ant Financial, people familiar with the matter said on Friday. The Dallas-based company’s […]

South Africa’s Naspers has taken full control of Russia’s largest classified advertising platform Avito after it spent $1.16 billion to buy the 29.1% it did not already own, the media and e-commerce group said on Friday. Reuters had reported earlier on Friday that Naspers was nearing a deal to buyout minority shareholders in a transaction […]

The National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) has reserved its judgement over the petition filed by traders’ body CAIT against fair trade regulator CCI‘s nod to Walmart‘s $16-billion acquisition of Flipkart. A two-member bench of the appellate tribunal headed by Justice S J Mukhopadhaya concluded its hearing on Thursday after taking note of submissions made […]

The Confederation of All India Traders and the Swadeshi Jagran Manch have opposed any extension of the February 1 deadline for updated norms on foreign investment in e-commerce, as sought by some online retail platforms. In letters to the prime minister, they urged his office not to grant more time to the e-tailers after ET […]

In a bid to curb the spread of fake and abusive content with untraceable origins on its platform, micro-blogging platform Twitter is testing a new feature that would help track the original tweeter. Once rolled out, the feature will help cyber cell and other law enforcement authorities nab the one who started a “bad” tweet […]

More than 200 hotels have ended agreements with SoftBank-backed Oyo over mismanagement of contracts, arbitrary charges and other disputes, industry associations said, adding that others want to exit contracts but are stuck for various reasons. Oyo refuted the allegations. “This is more dominant in the south and west but now hotels in north India are […]

Firewalls been around for three decades, but they’ve evolved drastically to include features that used to be sold as separate appliances and to pull in externally gathered data to make smarter decisions about what network traffic to allow and what traffic to block. Now just one indespensible element in an ecosystem of network defenses, the […]

Data breaches and security threats are a top concern among IT leaders, yet it’s harder than ever to hire skilled security professionals. That has organizations looking for ways to more easily improve their security strategy. One option is to implement a software-defined WAN (SD-WAN). I recently talked with Hamza Seqqat, director of solutions architecture at […]

If enterprise IT folks haven’t taken a look at their DNS ecosystem recently now may be a good time.  This week the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) told all federal agencies to bolt down their Domain Name System in the face of a  series of global hacking campaigns. More about […]

Cisco has patched security vulnerabilities in four packages of SD-WAN Solution software that address buffer overflow, arbitrary file override and privilege access weaknesses that could have led to denial-of-service attacks or access problems. The first patch, called “Critical” by Cisco, fixes a vulnerability in the vContainer of the Cisco SD-WAN Solution that could let an authenticated, […]