When Period. End of Sentence. — a documentary on the fight for menstrual hygiene set in Uttar Pradesh’s Hapur district — won an Oscar in the last week of February, the entertainment industry took to Twitter to congratulate its Indian executive-producer, Guneet Monga. Amid all the adulation in hashtags, a tweet from screenwriter Harneet Sethi […]
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What life looks like after a layoff from an IT company
In the best of times, Phani Missala, dressed in formals, would drive his new wine-red Hyundai Xcent into the sprawling Tech Mahindra (TechM) campus. A techie with over 13 years of experience at companies like Deloitte and Hewlett Packard, life was good for him. He still remembers the days he spent in Sunnyvale (California), Kuala […]
How Facebook stands to profit from its ‘privacy’ push
At first glance, Mark Zuckerberg‘s new “privacy-focused vision “ for Facebook looks like a transformative mission statement from a CEO under pressure to reverse years of battering over its surveillance practices and privacy failures. But critics say the announcement obscures Facebook’s deeper motivations: To expand lucrative new commercial services, continue monopolizing the attention of users, […]
RSA Conference 2019: The Expanding Automation Platform Attack Surface
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Politicians spruce up their social media profiles ahead of elections
Politicians across parties, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress president Rahul Gandhi, have begun strengthening their presence on social media platforms, sprucing up their profiles and increasing their interactions ahead of the general elections. Since social media first played a significant role in India’s elections five years ago, politicians have evolved and become savvy […]
Government extends feedback submission deadline for draft ecomm policy
The government on Friday extended the deadline for submission of feedback on the draft e-commerce policy by three weeks to March 31 following demands by some companies for a separate policy on data with easier sharing norms. At a stakeholder consultation with the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT), e-commerce companies sought […]
Startups, E-comm cos flood campuses with offers
Job offers are pouring in at the nation’s top business schools from e-commerce companies and startups, which are on the lookout for managerial talent with a technical background to drive the next phase of growth. Indian Institutes of Managements in Bengaluru, Kolkata and Kozhikode, and the Faculty of Management Studies (FMS) in Delhi said they […]
VMware firewall takes aim at defending apps in data center, cloud
VMware has taken the wraps off a firewall it says protects enterprise applications and data inside data centers or clouds. Unlike perimeter firewalls that filter traffic from an unlimited number of unknown hosts, VMware says its new Service-defined Firewall gains deep visibility into the hosts and services that generate network traffic by tapping into into […]
How A Shortage of Data Scientists in The US is Holding Back Big Data
The demand for big data is on the rise, but the industry is struggling to keep up with demand and develop the best possible algorithms. One of their biggest challenges is trying to recruit enough scientists to leverage big data to its full effectiveness. One survey showed that 1-in-3 data scientists working in the United […]
Citrix Falls Prey to Password-Spraying Attack
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