Archives for 2019

Guest host Juliet Beauchamp talks with senior writer J.M. Porup about the newly created cybersecurity insurance industry, and how a policy could fit into an organization’s overall security strategy to help minimize risk.

Deep-pocketed financial technology players are setting up physical infrastructure to provide know-your-customer (KYC) services for users, following the Supreme Court verdict restricting Aadhaar usage by private entities. Paytm has done it: It put a number of executives on-ground to nudge users to complete their KYC process after the verdict. Now, Amazon has started rolling out […]

By Kunal Bahl, Snapdeal Last month, during a dinner with business leaders from traditional sectors like cement, textiles, hospitality, etc, the discussion veered towards the soaring losses of digital businesses and whether this was on account of “spray & pray” optimism about a fortune to be made down the road. In the preceding weeks, a […]

News Research Firm Ranks 9 Cloud Management Platforms By David Ramel 01/10/2019 Research firm Gartner Inc. published a new report on cloud management platforms, listing Flexera (RightScale), Scalr, Embotics and Morpheus Data in the “leaders” category. “CMPs enable organizations to manage multicloud (i.e., private and public cloud) services and resources,” the report says. “This includes […]

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Fintech seems to be the next segment that Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance is aiming to disrupt. Payments bank was just the start. After acquiring over 200 million subscriber base, Reliance Jio is now eyeing the merchant community by entering the point-of-sale (PoS) segment. If an industry source is to be believed then the company has already […]

Data created by Internet of Things (IoT) sensors must be secured better, say some. A simple password-on-device solution is no longer sufficient thanks to increasing data protection regulations, a new public awareness of tracking, and hugely proliferating devices.  A new kind of architecture using Security Agents should be aggressively built into local routers and networks […]

With just four months to go for general elections, Facebook is looking to “ramp up its integrity efforts” in India. This will include “imminent appointment of key personnel, increased advertising transparency, and implementing its learnings from the recently concluded elections in Brazil, the United States (Congress and Senate midterms), Bangladesh, and India (state elections). In […]

New-age stock brokers which are offering trading services at near-zero costs, are changing the old order at a fast pace, on the back of the rapid adoption of technology in India’s banking and financial services space. Bangalore-based tech-driven, low-cost brokerage house Zerodha, started by a former trader nearly eight years ago, has replaced giants like […]

With just four months left for India to go for general elections, Facebook is looking to “ramp up its integrity efforts” in the country. This will include imminent appointment of key personnel, increased advertising transparency, and implementing its learnings from the recently concluded elections in Brazil, the United States (Congress and Senate midterms), Bangladesh, and […]