Illustration: Rahul Awasthi Shut shops, cancelled airline tickets and slower discretionary spends by consumers on dining out and movies are starting to hurt the country’s fast-growing digital payments sector. With industries across the board seeing a sharp slowdown, the digital payments sector is estimated to have registered a decline of around 30% in transaction value […]
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Cryptocurrency exchange Binance sets up $50 million Indian blockchain fund
Illustration: Rahul Awasthi Global decentralised cryptocurrency exchange Binance Group has set up a $50 million (Rs 370 crore) blockchain technology fund for India, weeks after the Supreme Court struck down the curbs on cryptocurrency trade in the country. The fund, which plans to invest upwards of $100,000 per startup, promises to open up direct access […]
Microsoft launches coronavirus tracker
As the novel coronavirus spreads like wildfire across countries, Microsoft‘s Bing team has launched a web portal to track its progress worldwide. The website provides up-to-date infection statistics for each country. An interactive map allows users to click on the country to see the specific number of cases and related articles from a variety of […]
Over 3,000 US employees file class action suit against Cognizant
Over 3,000 employees of Cognizant in the US, who work as content moderators for Facebook, have filed a class action complaint against the IT company and Facebook for allegedly causing psychological trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The complaint said the claims exceed $5 million in the aggregate. This is a fallout of Cognizant’s announcement […]
Discovery launches curated video streaming service in India
World’s largest factual entertainment company Discovery Communications, has entered into India’s video streaming landscape with the launch of ‘Discovery Plus’. Aimed at filling the need gap of premium factual entertainment, the app is available in both – subscription and ad-supported models. The app is first of its kind service from Discovery globally, where ‘Discovery Plus’ […]
Learn new strategies and technologies to optimize your hybrid cloud
IT environments are becoming more complex as organizations are combining on-premises, cloud, and edge infrastructures. There are some major benefits to having a flexible, hybrid IT environment, such as the ability to create new business value while also meeting local and industry compliance requirements, but the headaches of managing and securing these environments are hard […]
Announcing the general availability of Azure Monitor for virtual machines
Today we’re announcing the general availability of Azure Monitor for virtual machines (VMs), which provides an in-depth view of VM performance trends and dependencies. You can access Azure Monitor for VMs from the Azure VM resource blade to view details about a single VM, from the Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets (VMSS) resource blade to […]
Tencent’s set for fastest growth since 2018 after virus outbreak
By Zheping Huang Tencent Holdings picked up millions of new gamers during the global coronavirus outbreak — yet that surge in mobile play may be slowing as the world’s No. 2 economy goes back to work. The quest for entertainment among millions confined to home translated into a big boost for Tencent’s marquee games, Honor […]
Azure Container Registry: Preview of customer-managed keys
The Azure Container Registry team is sharing the preview of customer-managed keys for data encryption at rest. Azure Container Registry already encrypts data at rest using service-managed keys. With the introduction of customer-managed keys you can supplement default encryption with an additional encryption layer using keys that you create and manage in Azure Key Vault. This […]
The $6trn importance of security standards and regulation in the IoT era
We live in an era of digital transformation where more and more devices are connecting to bring new and innovative levels of service and efficiency. This transformation spans across all markets and the rate of progress is breath-taking, says David Maidment, director, secure device ecosystem at Arm. This change brings huge benefits, but it also […]