BARCELONA – WORLD CONGRESS – February 24, 2019 – In Barcelona, Cisco is showcasing how it is helping its service provider and enterprise customers adopt and drive revenue from 5G-powered services. The 5G movement is in steep ascent. Cisco has had over 100 active engagements with global customers on 5G. 40 service providers are actively trialing and […]
Archives for February 2019
Facebook powering small business to access markets, says India head
Social networking giant Facebook is powering small business across the country by providing tools on its platforms to access markets, which otherwise can’t find the supply chain and infrastructure to do so. “As many as six million businesses are live on Facebook in India today. We are the internet for small business because, for them […]
‘In future, data protection could be about good AI fighting bad AI’
Dr Gulshan Rai, National Cyber Security Coordinator, Government of India, Office of Prime Minister, Ritesh Agarwal, Founder, OYO Rooms, Alan Mamedi, Co-Founder & CEO, Truecaller, Amit Shah, Group President & Head Corporate Strategy, Fintech, Marketing & Communication, YES BANK, Osama Bedier, Founder & CEO, Poynt, talk about data regulation, transparency & the power of world’s […]
Regulate cross border data flows localisation, setup data authority: Draft e-commerce policy
India has proposed regulating cross border data flows, locating computing facilities within India to ensure job creation and setting up a dedicated ‘data authority’ for issues related to sharing of community data. In its draft National e-commerce Policy, India has said that the data generated in the country is a national asset, and citizens and […]
India among five fastest-growing nations for Airbnb: Nathan Blecharczyk
Nathan Blecharczyk, cofounder and chief strategy officer of Airbnb, said India operations are “set up for success” with 78% local growth overall and a fourfold growth in its business travel segment in the past year. The company has about 45,000 listings in India, with Goa being its most popular market at 6,000. Blecharczyk, who’s a […]
AT&T Partnership Combines SD-WAN with 5G
News AT&T Partnership Combines SD-WAN with 5G By David Ramel 02/22/2019 With 5G mobile networks just coming online in the U.S., forerunner AT&T is already pairing the game-changing technology with another transformative technology, software-defined wide-area-networks (SD-WAN). 5G is starting to supplant older cellular mobile communication technology, promising faster speeds, reduced latency, energy savings, cost reduction, […]
Predicting the 2019 Oscars Winners with Machine Learning
Following the success of predicting 6 out of 6 for the Oscars last year, we have the bar set high for using Machine Learning to predict the 2019 Oscars winners. This year, however, the results are not as obvious. For some of the top categories, our projected results show ties for who gets to take home the […]
Airbnb unveils Plus Homes in India
Airbnb announced the introduction of Plus Homes in India on Friday. Airbnb said verified for both quality and design, Airbnb Plus is a new range featuring ‘high calibre’ Airbnb homes and that every Plus home is visited in person and verified against a 100+ point inspection checklist to ensure greater comfort and quality. Currently available […]
First year was a disaster for us, we were on the verge of quitting: Airbnb cofounder Nathan Blecharczyk
Nathan Blecharczyk, cofounder of Airbnb, said the first year of starting up was a disaster for the peer-to-peer room and home rental company as they had not raised any venture capital and were on the verge of quitting. Airbnb, cofounded by Brian Chesky, Joe Gebbia and Blecharczyk in 2008, has since emerged as one of […]
Check Point reveals cloud and mobile security threats are growing
Criminals are increasingly targeting the cloud and mobile environments of businesses because they’re the least protected infrastructure, Check Point has revealed. The insights are backed up by evidence in the form of the cyber security company’s 2019 Security Report, with almost a fifth of businesses having experienced a security incident over the last 12 months, including […]