Archives for January 2019

At BigML, we strive to bring the power of Machine Learning to as many diverse environments as possible. Now you can easily power your Internet of Things (IoT) devices with Classifiers, Regressors, Anomaly Detectors, Deep Neural Networks, and more with the BigML bindings for Node-RED. The BigML Node-RED bindings aim to make it easier to […]

Lloyds bank is planning to move 500,000 customer accounts from its Intelligent Finance division out of its legacy IT onto a cloud-based banking platform built by Thought Machine, according to the FT. Intelligent Finance is a sunsetted business which services existing customers and doesn’t take on new ones. Back in November, Lloyds announced a partnership […]

Microsoft’s Office 365 cloud-powered productivity suite went down yesterday morning across Europe, with users reporting issues connecting to the cloud-hosted email servers at around 9.30am. The tech giant confirmed that it was experiencing problems with its servers and it was working on a fix to get email back up and running. “We’re investigating an issue […]

Facebook co-founder and chief Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday renewed his defense of the social network’s business, arguing that targeting ads based on interests was different from selling people’s data. “If we’re committed to serving everyone, then we need a service that is affordable to everyone,” Zuckerberg said in an opinion piece published in the Wall […]

By Matthew Boyle and Mark Bergen Walmart has quietly withdrawn from one of Google’s marquee efforts to challenge Amazon in e-commerce. Walmart removed its products from Google’s Shopping Actions service, the internet giant said on Thursday. The retailer also recently dropped out of Google Express, a related delivery service. In March, Google unveiled Shopping Actions, […]

Apple has announced that Microsoft Office 365 is now available on Mac App Store where Apple users can directly download the flagship apps such as Word, PowerPoint and Excel. The debut of the Microsoft Office in Apple Store came a little bit later than what Apple first announced at its Worldwide Developers Conference last year, […]

A smartphone with the Microsoft Bing logo is displayed against the backdrop of a Chinese flag in this picture illustration taken January 24, 2019. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration Microsoft is still trying to figure out why its Bing search engine temporarily went offline in China, the company’s president said following speculation that it could have been blocked […]

Picture credits: ThinkStock Raymond, India’s largest textile & global conglomerate, will foray into B2B e-commerce to connect retailers and dealers in the clothing and textile space. According to sources in textile and apparel circles, Raymond had already enrolled 2,500 retailers across India and has been running pilot tests for more than four months, including in […]

The government is considering extending the deadline of February 1 by when recently announced changes in the foreign direct investment policy for e-commerce are to take effect, said people with knowledge of the matter. “The government is considering giving an extension, but no final decision has been taken,” said a senior official. Amazon and Walmart-owned […]

Paytm founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma has denied that the company is planning to exit the online marketplace business but said its newly-launched online wholesale business is expected to generate about 15% of the Paytm Mall’s business in the coming years. Three people close to the Noida-based mobile payments and e-commerce firm, however, said Paytm is […]