By Himanshu Khanna, Sparklin 2018 was a gigantic year for the UX design industry in India, and more so, for the future of UX worldwide. The future will have a new map for cities. We might never need to own cars. When the commute is autonomous or flying or both, we might not need traffic […]

U.S.-based electronic cigarette company Juul Labs is hoping to launch its products in India by late 2019, a person familiar with the strategy told Reuters, marking one of its boldest bets to expand away from its home turf. After recruiting Uber India executive Rachit Ranjan as a senior public policy strategist, Juul this month hired […]

Google, Facebook , Twitter and Mozilla must do more to combat fake news as Europeans head towards an election or the companies will face the threat of regulatory action, the European Commission said on Tuesday. Companies and trade bodies representing the advertising industry signed up to a voluntary code of conduct in October to ward […]

Slack, the business messaging service challenging email, now has more than 10 million daily active users, its parent company said on Tuesday. The number of paying customers using Slack has risen by more than 50% over the past five years to over 85,000, Slack said in a blog post. Slack, launched in 2013, allows teams […]

Pinterest, the owner of the image search website known for the food and fashion photos that its users post, has hired Goldman Sachs Group and JPMorgan Chase to lead its initial public offering (IPO) later this year, people familiar with the matter said on Tuesday. Pinterest’s IPO preparations come at a time when social media […]

Soft skills, especially creativity, is becoming vital in today’s workplace. And so are factors like pay transparency, flexibility to work where & when employees want, and new ways to tackle workplace harassment. These are the findings of a LinkedIn survey of over 5,000 talent professionals in 35 countries, including more than 400 in India. While […]

Amazon and Walmart-owned Flipkart have told mobile phones, electronics and other companies, which sell their wares exclusively on these platforms, that they will be able to operate like they do now — albeit with some tweaks and rephrasing of agreements — once the revised ecommerce FDI norms come into effect. Two senior industry executives said […]

Paytm has launched hotel bookings on its platform and acquired NightStay, which offers deals on last-minute bookings at luxury hotels, as the Alibaba-backed payments and ecommerce company expands its travel business. Paytm said it plans to invest Rs 500 crore in scaling up its travel operations and has partnered with more than 5,000 hotels across […]

In this third post about feature selection scripts in WhizzML, we will introduce the third and final algorithm, Best-First Feature Selection (Best-First). In the first post, we discussed Recursive Feature Selection, and in the second post, we covered Boruta.  You can find this script in the BigML Script Gallery If you want to know more about it, visit its info page. Best-First […]

Walmart Inc’s online retailer Flipkart has told the Indian government the company faces the risk of “significant customer disruption” if the implementation of new curbs for e-commerce is not delayed by six months, a source told Reuters. India’s new foreign investment restrictions will, from Feb. 1, bar e-commerce companies from selling products from firms in […]