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, […]
Archives for January 2019
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 […]
Google to begin retiring Hangouts for G Suite users from October
Google has announced the timeline of the transition from classic Hangouts to Chat and Meet for its paying G Suite customers. The tech giant said that Hangouts retirement will start in October 2019. Starting April 16, Chat will become available on the web for G Suite domains that have classic Hangouts enabled, but it won’t […]
$1 billion online beauty spot up for grabs
India’s online market for beauty and personal care (BPC) products is expected to cross the $1 billion sales mark in 2019, driven by specialised products such as cosmetics, perfumes and men’s grooming items. According to a RedSeer Consulting report, private labels will continue to contribute an increasing portion of sales, which will in turn drive […]
Almost three-quarters of businesses use cloud-powered UC
Three quarters of UK businesses are adopting cloud-powered unified communications (UC) models so they can offer more innovative services, a report by Mitel has revealed. These businesses don’t believe the same scope of services is available with traditional models and so are moving to the cloud to offer a more diverse product selection. Almost 90% […]