On a busy day, contract employees in India monitoring nudity and pornography on Facebook and Instagram will each view 2,000 posts in an eight-hour shift, or almost four a minute. They are part of a 1,600-member team at Genpact, an outsourcing firm with offices in Hyderabad that is contracted to review Facebook content. Seven content […]

By Ari Altstedter There’s a wrinkle in plans made by Asia’s richest man to take on Amazon and Walmart on his home turf in India: his telecom and retail businesses can’t share data. Billionaire Mukesh Ambani, chairman of Reliance Industries, has outlined how he will marry the might of his group’s 9,900-plus retail stores and […]

News Zadara VPSA on AWS Marketplace Gets Improved Features, Flexibility By Wendy A Hernandez 02/28/2019 Today Irvine, California-based Zadara Storage Inc. announced new upgrades to its Virtual Private Storage Array (VPSA), which is available to Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers, as well as companies using VMware Cloud on AWS. “Zadara is an ideal complement to […]

Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC), which handles catering, tourism and online ticketing operations for the Indian Railways, has launched its own payment aggregator called ‘IRCTC iPay’. In a note shared with the press, IRCTC said that this effort would help have a smoother digital payment experience for railway passengers. With the launch of […]

Online food delivery service Zomato was given a notice from the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) on Wednesday, and asked to get a food safety licence for their operations. Officials from Dehradun’s Nagar Nigam inspected the Zomato state head office situated at Cantt Road and issued a notice on behalf of FSSAI […]

The intensifying tension between India and Pakistan since Tuesday’s air strike has turned social media into a virtual battlefield and fact-checkers are left grappling with a deluge of misinformation and fake news. Tweets with #BalakotAirStrike, #BringbackAbhinandan, #SayNoToWar, #MiG21, #F16, #PakFakeClaim #PakistanPM had been trending all through Wednesday with unabated exchange of barbs from both sides […]

After a year long wait, Swedish music streaming major, Spotify finally launched in India, amid a legal tussle with music label Warner Music Group, in a competitive domestic market. India can emerge as a key test market for several of Spotify’s upcoming features which may then be exported to other markets, the company’s India managing […]

News Pluribus Pivots to the Distributed Cloud Edge By David Ramel 02/27/2019 Pluribus Networks, firmly ensconced in the next-gen networking camp with software-centric, open networking offerings on bare-metal (or white-box) hardware, has updated those offerings with a distinct focus on the edge of distributed cloud implementations. The company today announced Netvisor ONE 5.0, an open, […]

Fans in India will be able to watch Sunday’s El Clasico between Real Madrid and Barcelona live and free on Facebook Watch, the social media giant’s streaming platform, La Liga has said. Spain’s top flight signed a landmark deal with Facebook last August which will allow viewers in the Indian sub-continent to watch every game […]

Twitter Inc plans to boost hiring in India and appoint an officer to liaise with the Election Commission (EC), a senior executive said on Tuesday, responding to concerns about political misuse of social media ahead of this year’s general elections. Speaking a day after an Indian parliamentary committee told the company to engage more with […]