The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) issued a gazette notification on Thursday that mandates private organisations using Aadhaar services to pay Rs 20 for each customer verification and 50 paise for authentication of the unique ID. The gazette notification, the Aadhaar (Pricing of Aadhaar Authentication Services) Regulations 2019, however, exempts government entities and the […]

Glitterbug Technologies, which owns and operates insurance aggregator Coverfox, has hit the market to raise a fresh round of equity financing, estimated at $50 million (Rs 350.23 crore). The Mumbai-headquartered company is in talks with several potential investors, particularly from China, the US and the UK, according to sources, briefed on the developments, indicating that […]

News Untangle Intros SD-WAN Router in New Security Framework By David Ramel 03/07/2019 Network security firm Untangle announced a new security framework that leverages new-age technologies such as software-defined wide-area networking (SD-WAN) for its approach to provide security orchestration across the enterprise. The Untangle Network Security Framework is designed to provide protection, monitoring and control […]

Microsoft-backed consumer intelligence company Affle has acquired Singapore based online-to-offline (O2O) platform Shoffr in a cash-and-stock deal. The acquisition includes the business, brand name, intellectual property rights, business relationships, assets and employees of Shoffr, people in the know, said. The deal is effective February, one of them said. Financial terms weren’t available. Affle India and […]

Microsoft-backed consumer intelligence company Affle has acquired Singapore based online-to-offline (O2O) platform Shoffr in a cash-and-stock deal. The acquisition includes the business, brand name, intellectual property rights, business relationships, assets and employees of Shoffr, people in the know, said. The deal is effective February, one of them said. Financial terms weren’t available. Affle India and […]

National Payments Corporation of India run domestic card scheme RuPay said that they have issued 64 million global cards meant for international transactions which run on the global card scheme Discover’s platform. The cards are accepted across 41 million merchants across 190 countries and has more than 200 offers running. “We have been focusing on […]

FILE – In this April 10, 2018, file photo, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before a joint hearing of the Commerce and Judiciary Committees on Capitol Hill in Washington, about the use of Facebook data to target American voters in the 2016 election. Zuckerberg said Facebook will start to emphasize new privacy-shielding messaging services, a […]

The National Basketball Association will offer fans in China original programming and an easier way to buy league gear through e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd, the league announced on Wednesday. For the first time, NBA China will create content for Alibaba users. Game highlights, classic games and the new content – along with league […]

Democrats in Congress unveiled a bill on Wednesday to reinstate net neutrality rules repealed by the Federal Communications Commission under U.S. President Donald Trump, the latest salvo in a more than decade-long battle over how to regulate internet traffic. The bill mirrors an effort last year to reverse the FCC‘s December 2017 order repealing landmark […]

A large data-hungry base of smartphone users and a fierce price war between the country’s telcos has made India home to the cheapest mobile data price in the world. One gigabyte (1GB) of data costs $0.26 in India, compared to an average $6.66 in the UK and $12.37 in the US, finds a global analysis […]