Archives for 2019

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Twitter said it does not take any actions based upon political views after BJP social media volunteers wrote to the Parliamentary Committee on Information Technology alleging bias against right-wing accounts by the company’s social media platform. Twitter said there has been a lot of discussion about Twitter and political bias in India in recent weeks […]