184 decision makers, analysts, domain experts, and entrepreneurs coming from all around the world gathered on March 7 and 8 at EOI Andalucía to join the first edition of our Machine Learning School held in Seville, Spain (#MLSEV). The event was co-organized by EOI and BigML, in collaboration with the Andalusian Government and Seville City Council; […]
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Citrix Touts Its SD-WAN Security After Hackers Breach Internal Network
News Citrix Touts Its SD-WAN Security After Hackers Breach Internal Network By David Ramel 03/11/2019 Citrix Systems Inc. touted the enhanced security capabilities of its software-defined wide-area network (SD-WAN) solution only days after news that “international cyber criminals gained access to the internal Citrix network.” In a March 8 blog post, Citrix announced that the […]
The Importance Of Creating A Single View of The Customer With Data
In order to thrive in the current economic environment, businesses need to provide exceptional customer service. To do so, they must be able to rapidly understand and react to customer shopping behaviors. To properly interpret and react to customer behaviors, businesses need a complete, single view of their customers. What does that mean? A Single […]
Okta to buy automation startup Azuqua for $52.2m
Okta has announced it will buy Seattle-based automation business Azuqua in a deal worth $52.5 million. The startup has developed the technology to integrate data stored on different databases into one system; for example, CRM platforms, employee management or other places where data often sits without being used or analysed. Okta’s CEO, Todd McKinnon hasn’t […]
Flipkart CEO Kalyan Krishnamurthy backs B2B e-commerce firm Moglix
Flipkart chief executive Kalyan Krishnamurthy has invested an undisclosed amount in B2B industrial goods marketplace Moglix in an individual capacity. This investment comes after the company raised $23 million in Series C funding led by Accel Partners US and existing investor International Finance Corp (IFC) in December last year. At the time, Moglix founder & […]
Facebook plans US-like election war room in India: Report
Facebook is planning to start an operations centre in Delhi that will monitor election-related content on its platform to prevent the spread of fake news ahead of the upcoming Lok Sabha election, reports Mint. Shivnath Thukral, director, public policy, India and South Asia, Facebook told the publication that the centre will coordinate with the company’s […]
Amazon drops products from its desi Global Store
Indian consumers will find it hard to buy goods from the US directly via Amazon’s Global Store in India because of the recent FDI norms for online retailers that were implemented from last month. Launched with much fanfare in late 2016, Amazon’s Global Store has become virtually non-existent here with a sharp fall in the […]
Model code & political ad rules will apply to social media too
The model code of conduct and its pre-certified political advertisement rules will apply to the social media as well. Chief election commissioner Sunil Arora said all major social media platforms — Facebook, Twitter, Google, WhatsApp and Share Chat — are committed to accepting only pre-certified political advertisements, sharing expenditure on it with the Election Commission […]
VCs click on smaller, niche e-tailers
Top venture capital (VC) investors like SAIF Partners, Sequoia Capital India and Matrix Partners India are making about half a dozen early bets on a new set of e-commerce companies. These startups are catering to the next 100 million internet users who have come to the e-market. The startups — Bulbul, Simsim, WMall, Mall91 and […]
UIDAI’s new eKYC charges a double whammy for cos using eSign
The revised pricing suggested by the Unique Identification Authority of India for eKYC transactions is bound to sharply increase operational costs for companies using the architecture for electronic signatures (eSign) of documents. According to industry executives in the business of authenticating documents, it could cause problems for early stage tech companies who use eSign for […]