Facebook has laid out plans for an independent content oversight board with the power to overturn company decisions on user posts, aimed at addressing concerns over misinformation and abusive behaviour on the platform. The board’s 40 members would select cases to review as the world’s largest social media network tries to crack down on harassment, […]
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For bruised Apple, a need to go beyond the iPhone
Apple is aiming to show it can do more than just make iPhones in a quarterly update on Tuesday for investors who are skeptical over whether the culture-changing company can regain the momentum from its glory days. In recent weeks, Apple shares have been hammered on concerns that its best days are over, with smartphone […]
Election Commission seeks ban on online political ads 48 hrs before elections
The Election Commission has sought an amendment to the law to prevent social media and other digital platforms from carrying political advertisements in the final 48 hours before elections. While Section 126 of the Representation of People Act prevents electronic media from airing political advertisements in the ‘silent period’ before elections, the EC in 2015 […]
SBI alleges misuse of Aadhaar data, UIDAI rubbishes charge
Officials of India’s largest public sector bank, SBI, have alleged that data of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has been misused while UIDAI has stoutly countered the charge with an emphatic no. Claiming that the logins and biometrics of their Aadhaar operators have been misused to generate unauthorised Aadhaar cards, bank officials have […]
Nielsen to soon map e-commerce growth in India
Market researcher Nielsen will soon begin tracking online e-commerce sales data in its research in response to rapidly growing online sales as FMCG companies have raised concerns about data not being fully representative. Nielsen South Asia executive director for retail measurement services, Sameer Shukla, confirmed that the data and analytics company would begin mapping online […]
Paytm rejigs executive teams, to focus on O2O segment
Paytm Mall, the e-commerce arm of Paytm Group, is undertaking a significant restructuring of its top and mid-level executive teams, amid speculation that the firm plans to focus on catering to its merchant ecosystem through B2B category and on offline-to-online consumer businesses. The Alibaba Group and SoftBank-backed company has moved Sudhanshu Jain, chief financial officer […]
RBI asks P2P lenders to file quarterly details
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has asked all registered peer-to-peer (P2P) lenders to furnish details about borrowers, lenders, their financial profiles, total exposure of participants and the financial health of the platforms themselves as it looks to assess the overall wellbeing of the sector. The regulator sent its queries to the companies earlier this […]
AppDynamics for ACI Monitoring Solution Targets Cisco’s SDN Offering
News AppDynamics for ACI Monitoring Solution Targets Cisco’s SDN Offering By David Ramel 01/28/2019 Cisco company AppDynamics unveiled a new monitoring solution for Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI), the networking giant’s initiative in the game-changing software-defined networking (SDN) space. AppDynamics, acquired by Cisco in 2017, is an “applications intelligence” company said to provide real-time insights […]
Build security into your IoT plan or risk attack
The Internet of Things (IoT) is no longer some futuristic thing that’s years off from being something IT leaders need to be concerned with. The IoT era has arrived. In fact, Gartner forecasts there will be 20.4 billion connected devices globally by 2020. An alternative proof point is the fact that when I talk with […]
Facebook restricts external agencies from checking political ads: Report
At a time when over a third of the world’s population is set to vote in coming months including in India, Facebook has restricted external transparency campaigners from accessing and scrutinising political ads on its platform. According to a Guardian report late Sunday, the social media giant has changed its codes that restrict external groups’ […]