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The wholesale industry is all about buzz words at the moment – from IoT to Security and blockchain. A newcomer making its wholesale buzz list debut recently is ‘Artificial Intelligence’ or AI. In most of our minds, AI brings images of robots taking over the world and annihilating the human race. The fear is that […]
A group of lawyers are pressuring EU legislators to propose rules that could force internet platforms to hand over data that belongs to another person who had died or is being cared for. Lawyers pushing for new legislation argue that there is a need to create rules that apply across the bloc because internet companies, […]
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s ambitions to become a smartphone-making powerhouse are foundering over a and part suppliers along with a complex tax regime, industry executives say. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has championed a manufacturing drive, under the slogan ‘Make in India’, to boost the sluggish economy and create millions of jobs. Among the headline-grabbing […]
The wholesale telecoms business is a tough business to be in on the best of days – competition is fierce and margins are as thin as they get. And the age of digital disruption isn’t making things easier – wholesale players are pressured to evolve with the times and the demands of their customers, but […]
Twenty-seven e-commerce companies and lobby groups have asked the European Commission to change a draft proposal to regulate payment services, arguing that additional security measures will drive shoppers away from online platforms. The Commission wants to cut down on online fraud by requiring consumers to use card authentication measures like reader devices, to scan their […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Internet giants, including Alphabet’s Google and Facebook, are moving to compromise on several major policy issues as they adjust to an abrupt shift in the political winds in Washington. Just last week, the U.S. Senate took a big step toward advancing legislation that would partially strip away the internet industry’s bedrock legal […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The top U.S. markets regulator has revealed that hackers accessed its corporate disclosure database and may have illegally profited by trading on the information stolen. Q: When did it happen? A: Some time in 2016. The Securities and Exchange Commission determined in August 2017 that the hack may have led to insider […]
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – An international group of cryptography experts has forced the U.S. National Security Agency to back down over two data encryption techniques it wanted set as global industry standards, reflecting deep mistrust among close U.S. allies. In interviews and emails seen by Reuters, academic and industry experts from countries including Germany, Japan […]
MUMBAI (Reuters) – First he tried messaging friends, but WhatsApp was down. Then, the credit card readers at his clothing store weren’t working. Ride-sharing apps were offline too. Harsh Madhok, who runs a clothing business in Jaipur, a city of three million people, had read about internet shutdowns elsewhere in India. Now he was in […]
Believe it or not, it has been almost ten years since the cryptocurrency known as Bitcoin first came into existence. According to legend, the mysterious creator(s) of Bitcoin, “Satoshi Nakamoto”, published it to a cryptography mailing list in October 2008, and released an open-source version in early 2009. Since then, Bitcoin has mushroomed into a […]
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