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 […]
Archives for 2019
Netflix finally accepted in Hollywood club but not fully
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, […]
Strategic Partnership for Joint Machine Learning Solutions
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 deletes seven million pieces of online information, thousands of apps
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 […]
Podcast: When does real estate qualify for the 199A deduction
On January 18, 2019. the IRS released the highly anticipated final regulations on Section 199A for the qualified business income deduction for pass-through entities. In this podcast, Bob Keebler, CPA/PFS shares details on the provisions, specifically Notice 2019-07 and answers: Access the related resources from this podcast: Impact of Tax Reform on Planning Toolkit AICPA […]
Durham County goes Cisco for enterprise network ops and security proficiency
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 to begin retiring Hangouts for G Suite users from October
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 […]
$1 billion online beauty spot up for grabs
India’s online market for beauty and personal care (BPC) products is expected to cross the $1 billion sales mark in 2019, driven by specialised products such as cosmetics, perfumes and men’s grooming items. According to a RedSeer Consulting report, private labels will continue to contribute an increasing portion of sales, which will in turn drive […]
Almost three-quarters of businesses use cloud-powered UC
Three quarters of UK businesses are adopting cloud-powered unified communications (UC) models so they can offer more innovative services, a report by Mitel has revealed. These businesses don’t believe the same scope of services is available with traditional models and so are moving to the cloud to offer a more diverse product selection. Almost 90% […]
Almost three quarters of businesses using cloud-powered UC
Three quarters of UK businesses are adopting cloud-powered unified communications (UC) models so they can offer more innovative services, a report by Mitel has revealed. These businesses don’t believe the same scope of services is available with traditional models and so are moving to the cloud to offer a more diverse product selection. Almost 90% […]