News Platform9 Intros Managed Service Because ‘Kubernetes on VMware Is Painful’ By David Ramel 02/08/2019 Platform9 introduced a new managed Kubernetes service to run on VMware systems in order to reduce the complexity of wedding the hot container technology with the leading virtualization software. That challenge — found in do-it-yourself approaches or even in existing […]

News Kubernetes IDE Offered by Red Hat By David Ramel 02/08/2019 Kubernetes, getting more popular by the minute for its container orchestration expertise, now has its own integrated development environment (IDE) thanks to open source champion Red Hat. Kubernetes is “an open source container orchestration system for automating application deployment, scaling, and management,” says Red […]

Twitter said it does not take any actions based upon political views after BJP social media volunteers wrote to the Parliamentary Committee on Information Technology alleging bias against right-wing accounts by the company’s social media platform. Twitter said there has been a lot of discussion about Twitter and political bias in India in recent weeks […]

The Reserve Bank of India should consider offering licences in the digital payments space ‘on-tap’, rather than giving out only through a specific window, asked the digital payments industry in a presentation made by top industry executives in front of the newly formed Committee on Deepening of Digital Payments. In a closed door meeting with […]

India could lose a vital U.S. trade concession, under which it enjoys zero tariffs on $5.6 billion of exports to the United States, amid a widening dispute over its trade and investment policies, people with close knowledge of the matter said. A move to withdraw the Generalised System of Preferences (GSP) from India, the world’s […]

Online platforms like Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and others are not required to obtain licences from the government to run their programmes, the Central government told the Delhi High Court on Friday. “Online platforms are not required to obtain any licences from the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting and the content on online platforms is […]

Online video platform Vimeo‘s revenue jumped 54% last year as its subscriber base surpassed 950,000, its parent group IAC said on Thursday. The figures highlight the rising interest in alternate video platforms which are much smaller than market leader YouTube but are growing by serving a niche customer base. Vimeo, founded in 2004, caters largely […]

Grocery and food delivery platform Postmates said on Thursday it had confidentially filed for an initial public offering with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Postmates, which has tied up with companies such as Walmart, Starbucks and Chipotle Mexican Grill for delivery services, operates in 2,940 U.S. cities, as well as in Mexico. The San […]

Joining Microsoft‘s call to regulate the misuse of facial recognition technology, retail giant Amazon‘s Cloud arm, Amazon Web Services (AWS), has asked lawmakers to formulate some rules around the use of the technology. The announcement came amid increasing scrutiny on the use of facial recognition by researchers, lawmakers and civil liberties groups. “Facial recognition should […]

Photo: Elise Amendola Netflix has rolled out its Smart Downloads feature for iOS users, nearly seven months after launching the feature on its Android app. Aimed at making binge watching easier for users, Smart Downloads automatically deletes the downloaded episodes of a television show after the user has finished watching it and downloads the next […]