By Lloyd Mathias In all the analyses around the government’s proposed e-commerce policy effective February 01, an important element that is being ignored is its impact on consumers. It’s rather tragic, because while the other three affected parties; viz. the global e-commerce marketplaces like Amazon & Flipkart-Walmart; the domestic e-commerce players like Snapdeal & Paytm; […]

India will not extend the Feb 1 deadline for the implementation of modified foreign direct investment (FDI) norms for its e-commerce sector, it said in an official notification on Thursday. The decision not to delay the rules was taken after “due consideration”, India’s Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion said. The move comes despite intense […]

News Cloud-Native Monitoring Among a Bevy of New Features in OpsRamp Winter Release By Wendy A Hernandez 01/31/2019 Today OpsRamp Inc. announced the Winter Release of its artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps) Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform of the same name. The update offers new Kubernetes monitoring for cloud-native workloads, plus additional topology maps and enhanced […]

E-commerce giant Alibaba Group reported quarterly profit far above market expectations and played down worries of Chinese economic slowdown and U.S. tariff effects, sending its shares up 6%. While quarterly revenue grew at its weakest pace since 2016 and modestly missed estimates, gross merchandise volume (GMV) – a key metric – grew at a solid […]

Facebook reported better-than-expected profit on Wednesday, showing that digital advertisers were still flocking to spend money on the service in order to reach customers even after a series of high profile embarrassments for the world’s largest online social media network. Investors have worried that Facebook’s pledge to invest heavily to improve its privacy and security […]

On Friday, Indian consumers will wake up to an emptier, more expensive version of Amazon’s shopping service. Gone will be iPhones and cheap jumbo packs of Pampers diapers. Fewer varieties of Maybelline cosmetics will be available, and Amazon’s own Echo smart speakers will vanish entirely. In all, more than 400,000 items that account for nearly […]

By Tushar Kaushik Bengaluru registered the most number of cybercrime cases in 2018. The country’s technology capital saw a whopping 5,035 FIRs registered at the lone cybercrime police station in the city. A city-wise comparison of cybercrime cases indicates the figure is a lot more than in other big cities in the country. As per […]

Restaurants in India have asked the government to clarify whether online food ordering entities such as Zomato, Swiggy and UberEats are covered by the policy on foreign direct investment (FDI) in ecommerce. The National Restaurant Association of India, which represents over 100,000 eateries, had asked the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion earlier this month […]

News Cisco Extends Reach of ACI for Intent-Based Networking By David Ramel 01/30/2019 A new “ACI Anywhere” initiative from Cisco seeks to extend the reach of its ACI solution, born in the early stages of the software-defined networking (SDN) transformation and subsequently pivoted to provide “intent-based networking.” The ACI Anywhere program brings the company’s intent-based […]

Oyo Hotels and Homes announced on Wednesday that it has launched operations in the Philippines. Oyo said it will start with over 21 franchised and leased hotels in the country and its current footprint includes presence in Metro Manila, Tagaytay and Cebu and it plans to grow to 10 cities by 2020. Oyo said it […]