China’s sudden move to join the US, Japan, Australia, EU and Singapore for developing trade rules for ecommerce has put pressure on India to join the talks, which have been opposed by more than half of the World Trade Organistion (WTO) members. China, which joined the league of 75 other countries on Friday had, till […]
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YouTube to stop promoting misleading & conspiracy theory videos
YouTube said Friday it will stop recommending specious videos such as those claiming the earth is flat or promoting bogus theories about the September 11, 2001 attacks. The global video streaming service planned to modify its viewing recommendation system gradually, starting in the United States and later expanding to other countries. Google-owned YouTube, part of […]
MoneyGram exploring options, including potential sale: Sources
A MoneyGram kiosk is seen in New York, U.S. January 3, 2018. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton MoneyGram International is exploring strategic alternatives, including a sale of the money transfer company, a year after a U.S. government panel nixed its $1.2 billion sale to China’s Ant Financial, people familiar with the matter said on Friday. The Dallas-based company’s […]
Naspers takes full control of Russian classifieds website Avito
South Africa’s Naspers has taken full control of Russia’s largest classified advertising platform Avito after it spent $1.16 billion to buy the 29.1% it did not already own, the media and e-commerce group said on Friday. Reuters had reported earlier on Friday that Naspers was nearing a deal to buyout minority shareholders in a transaction […]
NCLAT reserves order on plea against CCI nod to Walmart-Flipkart deal
The National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) has reserved its judgement over the petition filed by traders’ body CAIT against fair trade regulator CCI‘s nod to Walmart‘s $16-billion acquisition of Flipkart. A two-member bench of the appellate tribunal headed by Justice S J Mukhopadhaya concluded its hearing on Thursday after taking note of submissions made […]
Traders’ bodies against deadline extension for FDI in E-commerce norms
The Confederation of All India Traders and the Swadeshi Jagran Manch have opposed any extension of the February 1 deadline for updated norms on foreign investment in e-commerce, as sought by some online retail platforms. In letters to the prime minister, they urged his office not to grant more time to the e-tailers after ET […]
Twitter testing new feature to identify who started fake tweet
In a bid to curb the spread of fake and abusive content with untraceable origins on its platform, micro-blogging platform Twitter is testing a new feature that would help track the original tweeter. Once rolled out, the feature will help cyber cell and other law enforcement authorities nab the one who started a “bad” tweet […]
More than 200 hotels check out of Oyo over disputes
More than 200 hotels have ended agreements with SoftBank-backed Oyo over mismanagement of contracts, arbitrary charges and other disputes, industry associations said, adding that others want to exit contracts but are stuck for various reasons. Oyo refuted the allegations. “This is more dominant in the south and west but now hotels in north India are […]
What is a firewall? How they work and how they fit into enterprise security
Firewalls been around for three decades, but they’ve evolved drastically to include features that used to be sold as separate appliances and to pull in externally gathered data to make smarter decisions about what network traffic to allow and what traffic to block. Now just one indespensible element in an ecosystem of network defenses, the […]
How SD-WAN can improve your security strategy
Data breaches and security threats are a top concern among IT leaders, yet it’s harder than ever to hire skilled security professionals. That has organizations looking for ways to more easily improve their security strategy. One option is to implement a software-defined WAN (SD-WAN). I recently talked with Hamza Seqqat, director of solutions architecture at […]