April 7th, 2018India is a fast evolving and developing country with ever-more resources and capital being poured into the Indian web market to digitalize the country. A particular tool that has allowed this digital development has been the introduction of cheap and reliable smartphones in the market which allowed a large portion of the country to...
June 19th, 2017Unbxd, the cloud-based product discovery platform for e-commerce, has raised $12.5 million in Series C funding led by Eight Roads Ventures, the proprietary investment arm of Fidelity International Limited, and from existing investors IDG Ventures, Inventus Capital Partners and Nirvana Ventures. Unbxd will further invest in its artificial...
June 13th, 2017More than 70 per cent of smartphone apps are reporting personal data to third-party companies like Google and Facebook, a new study has warned.
When people install a new smartphone app, it asks for the users permission before accessing personal information.
Some of the information these apps collect are necessary for them to work...
May 21st, 2017French researchers said on Friday that they had found a last-chance way for technicians to save Windows files encrypted by WannaCry, racing against a deadline as the ransomware threatens to start locking up victims' computers first infected a week ago.
WannaCry, which started to sweep round the globe last Friday and has infected more...
May 18th, 2017Online restaurant guide and food ordering app Zomato today said about 17 million user records have been stolen from its database.
The stolen information contains user email addresses and hashed passwords but no payment information or credit card data has been stolen/leaked, Zomato said in a blogpost on its website.
The startups...
April 20th, 2017International mobile sim seller Matrix Cellular today launched an app for international travellers to help them book movie tickets, restaurants and taxi, among other things.
Matrix Travel Companion App is now available for free on Android and Apple iOS platform, Bollywood actress and Matrix Cellular Independent Director Gul Panag...
March 27th, 2017New Delhi: All of a sudden this month the nifty Indian invention, the unique electronic voting machines that were hailed to be the harbingers of free and fair elections in India, are being made out to be the villains of the piece.
So have the machines suddenly become fallible and has anybody ever hacked into them? The machines are the...
March 19th, 2017Fast-food major McDonald's on Saturday assured its customers that its website and app does not store the bank account related data after an independent blog claimed that the company is leaking personal data of more than 2.2 million users.
"We would like to inform our users that our website and app does not store any sensitive...
March 2nd, 2017According to a 2016 survey conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers, organizations rank cybercrime as the second most reported type of economic crime, up from fourth place. (It’s worth noting that most cybercrimes go unreported.)
Rarely a week goes by without news of another data breach at another corporation. And cyber thieves are...
February 21st, 2017Mumbai, February 21, 2017: Reliance Jio announced today that the Jio family of subscribers is a 100 million strong! Jio’s offering saw record additions of 7 new members per second, every single day for the last 170 days, enabling it to cross the 100 million mark within six months of commencement of services. This is the fastest...
February 15th, 2017Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani, who is betting big on data-driven telecom with his Jio Infocomm, today described the digital play sweeping the world as the fourth industrial revolution and said data is the "new oil".
"The foundation of the fourth industrial revolution is connectivity and data. Data is the new natural...
