FILE- This March 20, 2018, file photo shows the Spotify app on an iPad in Baltimore. Music streaming service Spotify is buying podcast companies Gimlet and Anchor as it looks to take on Apple’s popular iTunes’ podcasting platform.Photo/Patrick Semansky, File) After a year long wait, Swedish music streaming major, Spotify finally launched in India, amid […]

The 91st Academy Awards this Sunday, the first without a host in 30 years, proceeded without a hitch and seemed to sit well with the worldwide audience. For the third year in a row, we applied the BigML Machine Learning platform to predict the winners. This year, we got 4 out of 8 right for […]

News Verizon, Cisco Announce 5G/SD-WAN Pact By David Ramel 02/25/2019 Two more major networking players have signed an agreement to combine two promising, game-changing technologies: 5G wireless and software-defined wide-area-networking (SD-WAN). Verizon announced its Virtual Network Services will support 5G devices on Cisco’s SD-WAN platform, which features intent-based networking, an offshoot of the software-defined movement. […]

India is keen on the storage of key personal data within the country to prevent “data imperialism”, Law, Justice and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said at the Global Business Summit on Saturday. He also said government would seek details of origins of only such messages that promote terrorism and radicalisation on social media platforms […]

Social networking giant Facebook is powering small business across the country by providing tools on its platforms to access markets, which otherwise can’t find the supply chain and infrastructure to do so. “As many as six million businesses are live on Facebook in India today. We are the internet for small business because, for them […]

Dr Gulshan Rai, National Cyber Security Coordinator, Government of India, Office of Prime Minister, Ritesh Agarwal, Founder, OYO Rooms, Alan Mamedi, Co-Founder & CEO, Truecaller, Amit Shah, Group President & Head Corporate Strategy, Fintech, Marketing & Communication, YES BANK, Osama Bedier, Founder & CEO, Poynt, talk about data regulation, transparency & the power of world’s […]

India has proposed regulating cross border data flows, locating computing facilities within India to ensure job creation and setting up a dedicated ‘data authority’ for issues related to sharing of community data. In its draft National e-commerce Policy, India has said that the data generated in the country is a national asset, and citizens and […]

Nathan Blecharczyk, cofounder and chief strategy officer of Airbnb, said India operations are “set up for success” with 78% local growth overall and a fourfold growth in its business travel segment in the past year. The company has about 45,000 listings in India, with Goa being its most popular market at 6,000. Blecharczyk, who’s a […]

News AT&T Partnership Combines SD-WAN with 5G By David Ramel 02/22/2019 With 5G mobile networks just coming online in the U.S., forerunner AT&T is already pairing the game-changing technology with another transformative technology, software-defined wide-area-networks (SD-WAN). 5G is starting to supplant older cellular mobile communication technology, promising faster speeds, reduced latency, energy savings, cost reduction, […]

Following the success of predicting 6 out of 6 for the Oscars last year, we have the bar set high for using Machine Learning to predict the 2019 Oscars winners. This year, however, the results are not as obvious. For some of the top categories, our projected results show ties for who gets to take home the […]