By Dr Kamlesh Bajaj The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology recently unveiled draft rules under section 79 of the Information Technology Act to curb fake news and rumours on social media platforms. These platforms are intermediaries under Section 79. The rules clearly state that an intermediary must inform its users not to host, publish […]
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Online content moderators see surge in demand from Chinese apps
Chinese apps are now providing an increasing share of business to content moderating firms locally, an industry which was driven largely by clients from the US and Europe. What is helping these platforms is that Chinese short-video streaming apps like TikTok, Vigo Video, and LIKE have been gaining market share not only in India but […]
Mirae Asset-Naver Asia in talks to invest in Ola
Ola has signed a term sheet with Mirae Asset- Naver Asia Growth Investment, a fund jointly launched by the Korean financial services giant and one of the country’s top internet companies, for the latter to potentially invest in India’s largest ride-hailing platform. A possible investment in Ola is likely to be part of the Bengaluru-based […]
In the age of Netflix, can Doordarshan leverage nostalgia?
Sagar Gholap, 42, has been watching Rangoli, Doordarshan’s hour-long programme on Hindi film songs, ever since he was 12. It has been a constant on a weekend morning, a throwback to his childhood when Sunday was the only day he didn’t have to get out of bed at 6 am sharp. “I was allowed to […]
View: How India is leading digital revolution with speed and scale
By Arvind Gupta, MyGov India missed the first and second Industrial Revolutions in the 19th and early 20th centuries as it was then fodder for colonial industrialisation. It also missed the third technology-driven one, since it came at a time when India’s economic policies were not conducive to technology. But India has been lucky to […]
Oyo in talks with LA firm to buy Keys Hotels
SoftBank-backed Oyo Hotels and Homes is in talks with Los Angeles-based Berggruen Holdings, a $2-billion private equity and venture capital firm founded by billionaire investor Nicholas Berggruen, to acquire their company Keys Hotels in India, sources told ET. Berggruen Holdings is the owner of Berggruen Hotels in India, founded in September 2006 to build and […]
Brands plan direct listing on Amazon, Flipkart
Though Amazon and Flipkart are getting back to normalcy, a bunch of big and small consumer goods brands are going to list themselves directly as sellers on these two e-commerce marketplaces or appoint an authorised seller to ensure that they are able to tide over any government policy uncertainties by ensuring stocks are always available […]
Platform9 Intros Managed Service Because ‘Kubernetes on VMware Is Painful’
News Platform9 Intros Managed Service Because ‘Kubernetes on VMware Is Painful’ By David Ramel 02/08/2019 Platform9 introduced a new managed Kubernetes service to run on VMware systems in order to reduce the complexity of wedding the hot container technology with the leading virtualization software. That challenge — found in do-it-yourself approaches or even in existing […]
Need Accounting Help? Learn How to Use QuickBooks for Less Than $20.
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Kubernetes IDE Offered by Red Hat
News Kubernetes IDE Offered by Red Hat By David Ramel 02/08/2019 Kubernetes, getting more popular by the minute for its container orchestration expertise, now has its own integrated development environment (IDE) thanks to open source champion Red Hat. Kubernetes is “an open source container orchestration system for automating application deployment, scaling, and management,” says Red […]