The on-going dispute between hotels across the country and Online Travel Aggregators (OTAs) – GoIbibo and Make My Trip (Go-MMT) has further escalated with hotels in Sikkim declaring an immediate boycott of Go-MMT. The Sikkim Hotels & Restaurants Association (SHRA) recently convened a hoteliers’ meeting in Gangtok during which it was unanimously agreed to not […]
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Facebook brings stricter ads rules to India ahead of general election
Facebook plans to extend some of its political advertising rules and tools for curbing election interference to India, Nigeria, Ukraine and the European Union before significant votes in the next few months, the social networking giant told Reuters. As the largest social media service in nearly every big country, Facebook has become a means for […]
Box launches UK-specific Box Zone with data centres in London and Cardiff
Box has launched an additional data zone for its Box Zones offering, presenting a new zone for the UK with separate data centres in London and Cardiff. Back in 2016, the cloud content management company first announced Box Zones and said that it would feature eight separate locations where users can store data. Box offers […]
Netflix, Hotstar and others sign a self-censorship code
Online video platforms like Netflix, Hotstar, Jio, Voot, Zee5, Arre, SonyLIV, ALT Balaji and Eros Now have signed a self-censorship code that prohibits these video platforms from showing certain kinds of content and sets up a redressal mechanism for customer complaints. ET was the first to report on the plan on September 4 last year. […]
Netflix, Hotstar and others sign a self-regulatory code of Best Practices
Online Curated Content Providers (OCCPs) including Hotstar, Voot, Zee5, Arre, SonyLIV, ALT Balaji, Netflix and Eros Now have signed a self-regulatory Code of Best Practices. ET first reported that the self-regulation would stop them from showing content that’s banned by Indian courts, disrespects the national emblem and flag, outrages religious sentiments, promotes terrorism or violence […]
PhonePe claim to have crossed 10 lakh merchants
Digital payments major PhonePe said that it has crossed more than 10 lakh offline merchants within a year of betting majorly in the space, mostly by installing payment acceptance across small and mid sized retail stores. PhonePe enables merchants to accept payments across UPI, cards and all forms of wallets. “PhonePe’s QR solution allows merchants […]
Internet Freedom Foundation urges online video platforms to rethink self censorship
Internet Freedom Foundation urged online video platforms to rethink the proposed self-censorship norms for video streaming platforms, saying that TV style self-censorship system would tremendously hurt consumer choice and freedom of speech. In a letter to industry body IAMAI, Internet Freedom Foundation said the self-regulatory mechanism is bad for online streaming platforms, producers, artists and […]
Survey Says Despite Security Concerns, Enterprise Cloud Adoption Still To Grow in 2019
News Survey Says Despite Security Concerns, Enterprise Cloud Adoption Still To Grow in 2019 By Wendy A Hernandez 01/17/2019 Microsoft technology partner NetEnrich Inc., which specializes in the deployment, migration and management of application workloads on Microsoft Azure, announced the results of its 2019 Cloud Adoption survey, which show that cloud adoption is not only […]
Oracle unveils Java Card 3.1 for securing IoT devices
Oracle has revealed the latest version of its Java Card, used for securing internet of things (IoT) devices such as smartwatches and other hardware that process large amounts of information. Java Card 3.1 can be used in a vast array of applications, from telecoms devices and contactless payments terminals to cars, smart meters and wearables. It […]
Veeam receives cash injection from Insight Venture Partners to speed up growth
Veeam announced it has received $500 million in investment from Insight Venture Partners to accelerate its growth in the data management sector. As part of the agreement, Veeam will also receive support from the investor’s internal business strategy arm, Insight Onsite as well as the capital to invest in smaller organisations as part of its […]