Offers to sign up for a COVID-19 vaccine, an IRS agent calling to confirm a stimulus payment, or someone at the door offering to swab your nose to see you have the coronavirus. These are among the ploys scammers are implementing right now against American seniors in hopes of profiting from the uncertainty, fear, and […]
Archives for May 2020
Trump’s move against social media firms unlikely to change India’s stand
Illustration: Rahul Awasthi US President Donald Trump’s executive order diluting the immunity enjoyed by social media companies is unlikely to change India’s stand on making firms such as Twitter and Facebook more responsible and accountable for content posted on their platforms. India has been facing a challenge of misinformation on a large scale and has […]
ETtech Top 5: Online grocery consolidation, fashion retail makeover, Wipro’s new CEO & more
Happy Friday! The weekend is here. But we still don’t have a clue on what Monday is going to like. The government is yet to announce whether it’ll extend or lift the lockdown. Meanwhile, India’s online grocery market, which is expected to drive e-commerce growth in 2020, may be heading for consolidation. Paytm Mall-Grofers potential […]
ITC Hotels partners with Swiggy for home delivery of food
ITC Hotels said on Friday that it has partnered with the on-demand delivery platform Swiggy to offer ITC’s dining options to customers in the comfort of their home. ITC Hotels said Swiggy will enable ‘no contact’ deliveries on all pre-paid orders, which involves a delivery partner leaving the food at the doorstep rather than an […]
IT Trade Shows Go Virtual: Your 2020 List of Events
Virtual IT events and trade shows are popping up everywhere this summer and fall. Even if your travel budget has been cut, you can still make it to these. Whether you are a regular at technology events and trade shows or, as more of an introvert, you prefer to hold down the fort at your […]
Advantage ROI: Optimize AI Programs for Short-Term Gains
With many budgets constrained, now is the time to focus on artificial intelligence projects that will deliver the most payback over the next six months. Let’s say you’re working on an AI program where you’re implementing and scaling dozens of AI business use cases. In addition, you are also spending millions of dollars to enable […]
Twitter flags Trump’s Minneapolis tweet for glorifying violence
Twitter on Friday sounded an all-out war against US President Donald Trump by flagging a fresh tweet from him that violated Twitter policies about glorifying violence. Twitter placed a public interest notice on the latest Tweet from Trump that read: “….These THUGS are dishonoring the memory of George Floyd, and I won’t let that happen. […]
Indian users target of ‘state-backed’ attackers: Google
Google notified between 51 to 100 users in India that their accounts were being targeted by “state-sponsored” attackers in April, the technology giant said in a blog released late on Wednesday. The post did not specify if the users were targeted by their own government or others. Globally, Google sent out 1,755 warnings to users […]
Online food orders still down 60% from pre-Covid-19 days
India’s online food delivery order volumes continue to remain down by over 60% from the peak reached in the first two weeks of March, according to data from Israel’s Superfly Insights, which collated it through anonymised billing information. “We are seeing some growth coming back, but still not at a pre-Covid-19 level and it’s so […]
Google Pay ties up with Dunzo for essentials
Google Pay, the payments platform of Google India, has on-boarded hyperlocal delivery startup Dunzo on its platform as a storefront, at a time when demand for grocery and essentials remains high. This means one can run any task — grocery delivery, medicine delivery, pickup-and-drop — by using the Dunzo tab inside the payments app. Dunzo, […]