As people around the globe adapt to new ways of working, the Microsoft Build 2020 conference took a new approach as well. Rather than gathering the developer community in person as planned, Microsoft shifted gears and put together 48 hours of streaming content for a virtual event. Despite the new format, Microsoft Build’s goals remained […]
Archives for May 2020
Azure Lighthouse—managing cloud, hybrid, and edge environments at-scale through a single control plane
Thousands of partners and enterprises use Azure Lighthouse to manage services across Azure tenants, representing tens of thousands of subscriptions and more than one million Azure resources from Azure Resource Manager—a unified control plane. With Azure Lighthouse, service providers, as well as self-managing enterprises, can achieve higher operational efficiency using Azure’s comprehensive and robust management […]
Novavax starts Phase 1 clinical trial of coronavirus vaccine candidate
(Reuters) – Novavax Inc said on Monday it has started the Phase 1 clinical trial of a novel coronavirus vaccine candidate and has enrolled the trial’s first participants, with preliminary results slated for July. The Maryland-based late-stage biotechnology company in April said it identified the candidate, NVX-CoV2373, with which it planned to use its Matrix-M […]
Endgame of US-China rivalry is ‘lose-lose,’ says Harvard professor
The national flags of the U.S. and China waving outside a building. Teh Eng Koon | AFP via Getty Images Relations between the U.S. and China — the world’s top two economies — look set to worsen, and the endgame is a “lose-lose” situation for both sides, said a political science professor from Harvard University. That […]
Uber lays off 600 employees in India as Covid-19 hits ride-hailing business
Uber has laid off 600 people or a fourth of its 2,600 workforce in India across levels and teams on Tuesday. The ride-hailing app confirmed the development. The layoffs come a week after homegrown rival Ola slashed its headcount by a third, affecting 1,400 employees. “Maximum employees in the core mobility and head office have […]
PPP forgiveness guidance issued as Congress mulls changes
Treasury and the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) released new Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) guidance Friday night that provided some clarity on several loan forgiveness questions but didn’t address the two parts of PPP that arguably have generated the most concerns among the millions of small businesses and other entities that have received funding. Two […]
Meituan Dianping posts Q1 loss, warns virus impact to continue
Chinese food delivery giant Meituan Dianping posted a smaller-than-expected fall in revenue on Monday after its business was hit by nationwide virus curbs but cautioned that the pandemic would continue to have an impact. After three consecutive profitable quarters, the company said the loss for the first quarter ended March 31 was 1.58 billion yuan […]
Rebel Foods brews a new food kits plan
Illustration: Rahul Awasthi Rebel Foods, India’s largest cloud kitchen chain, which operates Faasos, Oven Story, Firangi Bake, and Behrouz, is planning to use its kitchen infrastructure to expand beyond its own cooked meal brands, a top executive told ET. This will be done by diversifying into ready-to-cook kits, meats, packaged snacks, as well as scaling […]
What IoT is telling us about the trucking industry during COVID-19
Goods are still moving in North America, and the Internet of Things is helping us understand how, where, and how fast. More about IoT The trucking industry has changed dramatically during the COVID-19 crisis, and thanks to the Internet of Things (IoT), we can now almost seamlessly track the global and trade activity of commercial […]
How to detect bots: What you need to know
Akamai’s CTO discusses why machine learning and cloud are important when it comes to security breaches, IoT-related attacks, and credential stuffing. Dan Patterson, a Senior Producer for CBS News and CNET, interviewed Patrick Sullivan, Akamai CTO, Security Strategy, about how to detect and protect against bots. The following is an edited transcript of the interview. […]