It was just before he demitted office in 2016 that the then Reserve Bank of India governor, Raghuram Rajan, the darling of the digital financial services sector, released a consultation paper on peer-to-peer lending. P2P lending enables individuals to borrow and lend money through online platforms that match lenders with borrowers, and was expected to […]
Archives for January 2019
How Kalyan Krishnamurthy is reordering the Flipkart-Myntra top brass
Flipkart has come a long way since group CEO Kalyan Krishnamurthy began his second innings at the homegrown e-commerce company in 2016 — arguably one of its most troubled phases with Amazon snapping at its heels. A canny operator, Krishnamurthy swooped down and tightened the ship. One of the key areas he addressed then was […]
Fighting Fire with Fire: API Automation Risks
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Cisco Warns of Vulnerability in SD-WAN Offering
News Cisco Warns of Vulnerability in SD-WAN Offering By David Ramel 01/24/2019 Cisco has released software updates to fix a vulnerability in its software-defined wide-area networking (SD-WAN) solution, a fast-growing segment of the software-centric networking transformation. “A vulnerability in the vContainer of the Cisco SD-WAN Solution could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to cause a […]
Early bird discount for UK Cloud Awards ends today
If you’ve got a cloud success story to share, now is the time to share it today is the last day the early bird discount for the UK Cloud Awards is valid. Although the window for entries is open until 22 February, you can benefit from a big discount on the application fee if you get […]
WTO chief pitches for global multilateral agreement on e-commerce
The multilateral trading systems and the WTO are headed for the “dark ages” unless they urgently evolve to respond to a fast-changing world, the global trade organisation’s chief Roberto Azevedo warned Thursday. Speaking here at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, he also said the world needs a global multilateral agreement for e-commerce. The world […]
US voices concern as India’s e-commerce restrictions hit Amazon, Walmart: Sources
The United States government is concerned about India’s revised e-commerce regulations and has told officials in New Delhi the policy will hinder the Indian investment plans of Amazon and Walmart, three sources familiar with the talks told Reuters. The tussle marks the latest in a number of U.S. protests over Indian government policies which impact […]
Salesforce boosts marketing analytics services with Dataorama data and tech
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 […]
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 […]