Though Amazon and Flipkart are getting back to normalcy, a bunch of big and small consumer goods brands are going to list themselves directly as sellers on these two e-commerce marketplaces or appoint an authorised seller to ensure that they are able to tide over any government policy uncertainties by ensuring stocks are always available […]
Archives for February 2019
Platform9 Intros Managed Service Because ‘Kubernetes on VMware Is Painful’
News Platform9 Intros Managed Service Because ‘Kubernetes on VMware Is Painful’ By David Ramel 02/08/2019 Platform9 introduced a new managed Kubernetes service to run on VMware systems in order to reduce the complexity of wedding the hot container technology with the leading virtualization software. That challenge — found in do-it-yourself approaches or even in existing […]
Kubernetes IDE Offered by Red Hat
News Kubernetes IDE Offered by Red Hat By David Ramel 02/08/2019 Kubernetes, getting more popular by the minute for its container orchestration expertise, now has its own integrated development environment (IDE) thanks to open source champion Red Hat. Kubernetes is “an open source container orchestration system for automating application deployment, scaling, and management,” says Red […]
Twitter responds to BJP’s allegations of bias, says does not take action based on political views
Twitter said it does not take any actions based upon political views after BJP social media volunteers wrote to the Parliamentary Committee on Information Technology alleging bias against right-wing accounts by the company’s social media platform. Twitter said there has been a lot of discussion about Twitter and political bias in India in recent weeks […]
Payment industry body meets RBI Committee under Nandan Nilekani, presents industry demands
The Reserve Bank of India should consider offering licences in the digital payments space ‘on-tap’, rather than giving out only through a specific window, asked the digital payments industry in a presentation made by top industry executives in front of the newly formed Committee on Deepening of Digital Payments. In a closed door meeting with […]
U.S. considers withdrawal of zero tariffs for India amid e-comm rules & data localisation row: Sources
India could lose a vital U.S. trade concession, under which it enjoys zero tariffs on $5.6 billion of exports to the United States, amid a widening dispute over its trade and investment policies, people with close knowledge of the matter said. A move to withdraw the Generalised System of Preferences (GSP) from India, the world’s […]
Mumsnet reports data breach to ICO after problematic cloud move
Mumsnet has reported itself to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) after a botched upgrade resulted in users accidentally logging into the accounts of others. The parental forum believes that the breach was caused when moving its services to the cloud on Tuesday afternoon. The problem ran from 2pm Tuesday to 9am Thursday when the changes […]
SD-WAN creates new security challenges
SD-WAN products have been available for the better part of five years. Early adopters of the technology focused primarily on transport-related issues such as replacing or augmenting MPLS with broadband. As any technology matures and moves out of the early adopter phase, the buying criteria changes — and SD-WAN is no different. In 2018, a […]
Netflix, Amazon Prime do not require licence from government: Govt to HC
Online platforms like Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and others are not required to obtain licences from the government to run their programmes, the Central government told the Delhi High Court on Friday. “Online platforms are not required to obtain any licences from the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting and the content on online platforms is […]
Vimeo revenue jumps 54% in 2018, paying subscribers near 1 million
Online video platform Vimeo‘s revenue jumped 54% last year as its subscriber base surpassed 950,000, its parent group IAC said on Thursday. The figures highlight the rising interest in alternate video platforms which are much smaller than market leader YouTube but are growing by serving a niche customer base. Vimeo, founded in 2004, caters largely […]