The term “computer virus” calls to mind imagery of pathogenic creepy-crawlies bringing down a device’s operating system, their flagella wriggling as they multiply into hordes that infiltrate its chips and wires. And while it’s true that our computers can be infected with literal biological bacteria like staphylococci, per Science Illustrated, the threat of malicious codes […]
Archives for February 2019
Powering the Next Wave of Intelligent Devices with Machine Learning – Part 3
In the second part of this series, we explored how the BigML Node-RED bindings work in more detail and introduced the key concepts of input-output matching and node reification which will allow you to create more complex flows. In this third and final part of this introductory series, we are going to review what we […]
Mukesh Ambani to invest $1.4B in West Bengal, will help e-commerce expansion
Reliance Industries will invest Rs 10,000 crore ($1.4 billion) in West Bengal, a part of which would fund the company’s new e-commerce venture, its chairman Mukesh Ambani said on Thursday. The energy and telecoms conglomerate, which already runs retail stores, has announced plans to diversify into e-commerce at a time when India’s new foreign investment […]
Twitter Q4 revenue grows to $909M as video ad sales surge
Twitter said on Thursday that its profits rose sharply in the fourth quarter, lifted by gains in advertising despite a drop in its global user base. The short-messaging platform said it posted a $255 million profit in the final three months of 2018, compared with $91 million a year earlier, as revenues rose 24% to […]
Facebook ramps up efforts to make election ads more transparent, to start enforcement on February 21
Social networking giant Facebook, on Thursday, announced that it would begin enforcement of its advertising transparency policy for India on February 21. Facebook will also introduce two label categories for its disclaimers — “paid for” and “published by”— including the name of the individual or the entity behind the ad, which will be displayed in […]
Stripe, a $23 billion startup, eyes India amidst waning globalisation
By Ellen Huet In 2010, when Patrick Collison founded Stripe with his younger brother John, he thought the world was headed toward ever-increasing globalisation, economic stability and international commerce. Now, based on the events of the last couple years, no one holds “so Panglossian a view,” said the 30-year-old chief executive officer. “There are more […]
Remote Support Solution Provider AetherPal To Be Acquired by VMware
News Remote Support Solution Provider AetherPal To Be Acquired by VMware By Wendy A Hernandez 02/07/2019 This week VMware Inc. announced its intent to acquire AetherPal, a venture-backed remote support and mobile support enterprise solution provider based in Piscataway, New Jersey. VMware has been reselling AetherPal Remote Support under the name Workspace ONE Advanced Remote […]
Alibaba rival Pinduoduo seeks to raise $1.5B
Chinese firm Pinduoduo, an ambitious rival of e-commerce giant Alibaba, plans to raise about $1.5 billion from Wall Street to fund its expensive expansion. The Shanghai-based company, which specialises in the sale of very low-priced goods, said in a stock market filing Tuesday that it intends to issue some 37 million new shares while stockholders […]
Zynga CEO says turnaround is now complete as it beats Q4 estimates
The Zynga logo is pictured at the company’s headquarters in San Francisco, California April 23, 2014. REUTERS/Robert Galbraith/File Photo Zynga CEO Frank Gibeau said on Wednesday that the company’s turnaround is now complete as it forecast quarterly bookings above analysts’ estimates after beating expectations for the fourth quarter, indicating that the game developer was benefiting […]
Oyo to enter US market
After recently closing $1 billion fund-raise by SoftBank, Oyo has stepped on the gas in terms of expansion on foreign soil. Besides, the new market of US, it is also present in the UK, Indonesia, Nepal, and Sri Lanka among others. TNN | February 07, 2019, 08:38 IST