India’s top two online marketplaces, Amazon and Flipkart, have seen as much as a third of sales volume disappear on their platforms since the new foreign investment rules in e-commerce came into effect three days ago, people privy to the matter told ET. The new regulations bar some of the business practices that foreign-funded e-commerce […]

In a bid to curb notorious users from misusing the dislike button to harm content and channels on YouTube, the Google-owned video sharing platform is seeking creators’ feedbacks on ideas to tackle the issue. Explaining the “lightly discussed” strategies, Tom Leung, Director of Project Management at YouTube, addressed the issue of “dislike mobs” in a […]

US-based corporations Amazon and Walmart, which owns 77% stake in India’s largest online retailer Flipkart, together lost over $50 billion in market capitalisation on Friday after the government’s updated e-commerce policy came into effect. Both companies have made big bets on the Indian retail market – with Amazon committing $5 billion here while Walmart spent […]

The SoftBank-led Vision Fund is in talks to invest up to $1.5 billion in Chinese used car trading platform Guazi.com, two people with knowledge of the matter said. That would mark the latest Chinese deal by the mammoth $100 billion investment fund as it looks to expand in the world’s No.2 economy, and would come […]

Tech companies and nearly two dozen U.S. states clashed with the government in federal court Friday over the repeal of net neutrality, a set of Obama-era rules aimed at preventing big internet providers from discriminating against certain technology and services. Judges challenged arguments made by both sides in the faceoff in an appeals court in […]

By Ritesh Agarwal, OYO Hotels & Homes The interim budget sets lofty expectations of a Vision 2030 to bring widespread economic growth through next generation physical and social infrastructure. But the trek to a $10-trillion economy will not be easy. There is the promise of hope, but the delivery needs to be precise. The key […]

News Survey Shows Carriers Moving to SDN in a Big Way By David Ramel 02/01/2019 A new survey from IHS Markit illustrates the maturation of the game-changing software-defined networking (SDN) approach, which reportedly will be adopted by all respondents and is already used by 78 percent of global service providers. SDN is at the forefront […]

Negligence in maintaining the security of a Jharkhandgovernment web system has resulted in the leaking of personal information and Aadhaar numbers of nearly 1,66,000 government employees in India, TechCrunch reported on Friday. A web system that was used to record employee attendance was left without a password since 2014, exposing Aadhaar numbers, names, job titles […]

Finance Minister Piyush Goyal said India’s digital infrastructure and economy of 2030 will be built on the work done in digitisation of government processes and private transactions. Goyal said it is government’s vision to create a Digital India that reaches all sectors of the economy, all parts of the country and impacts lives of all […]

If you are looking to buy Amazon‘s Echo range of speakers in India, you may have to wait for about 15-30 days. The devices, which weren’t available on Amazon.in until the early hours of Friday, is now available through sellers such as Hariom Communication LLP and 4 U Marketing, signaling a restructuring of seller entities […]