Six months after buying marketing intelligence platform Datorama, Salesforce has announced it will be integrating the company’s tech into its Marketing Cloud platform as well as developer tools business can use to create extensions for powering their business decisions. Datorama Marketing Cloud will tag on the ability for marketers to visualise the performance of their […]
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Facebook to proactively shut down fake Pages, Groups
Facebook has announced that it will proactively shut down fake Groups and Pages, even if they were not found to be in violation of its Community Guidelines In a blog post on Wednesday, the social media giant said when a Page or Group is removed for violating policies, “we may now also remove other Pages […]
Amazon spent record $14.2M on US lobbying in 2018
Amazon spent $14.19 million on lobbying the U.S. government in 2018, according to a regulatory filing, beating its year-ago record, as large U.S. technology companies pushed back on issues such as privacy, immigration and new tariffs. Issues of interest to Amazon also included healthcare plans, drug prices and food safety that were discussed with the […]
Google India spent Rs 1,100 cr on media investments in 2018
For a company that is known to dominate the global online advertising market along with social networking giant Facebook, Google has itself emerged as one of the top advertisers in India over the last two years. The online search giant was among India’s largest advertisers in 2017-18, shelling out huge dollars to create awareness about, […]
Adobe acquires 3D editing specialist Allegorithmic
Adobe has acquired Allegorithmic, makers of ‘Substance’ which is the industry standard for 3D textures and material creation in game and video post-production, for an undisclosed sum. By combining France-based Allegorithmic’s ‘Substance’ 3D design tools with Adobe Creative Cloud’s imaging, video and motion graphics tools, Adobe will enable video game creators, VFX artists working in […]
Hulu cuts price of most popular plan by 25% but hikes price for live TV service
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]