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Confused about turnkey solutions? Here’s all you need to know about it
Introduction Modernizing and digitizing your business in today’s era is necessary, almost compulsory, if you want to survive in the market full of competition. Turnkey solutions provide easy ways to conveniently enhance your company digitally. Turnkey solutions are “off the shelf” solutions or “ready made”...
Steve Moros Moves from Cisco to Proofpoint: A Strategic Shift
Steve Moros, ANZ Director of Cybersecurity at Cisco, has stepped down from his role at the company to join Proofpoint, a compliance and cybersecurity vendor. At Proofpoint, Moros will take charge of the vendor’s APAC Advanced Technology Group. Here, he will be leading Proofpoint’s sales...
Instagram for Kids: Why It’s a Bad Idea
As first reported by Buzzfeed, social media giant Facebook announced its plans last month to launch ‘Instagram for kids’. Facebook says this will essentially be a social media platform for kids under 13. Writing a message for company employees, Vishal Shah (VP of Product at...
Microsoft Build 2021 is coming on 25th to 27th May
Microsoft build conference 2021 is here with their annual developers conference which will be held virtually again this year in May. Several rumored dates were previously floating around regarding this event, but now it’s official. It has been published on Microsoft’s public events page. Owing...
Twitter tests ‘Tip Jar’ that’ll help creators monetize their tweets
So, you think your tweets are worth money? Well, here’s your chance to earn it. Microblogging platform Twitter announced that it is testing a tipping feature that’ll allow Twitteratis to receive donations from their followers. The feature will be known as ‘Tip Jar’ and will...
Australian govt to pour $1+ billion in digital economy & regional connectivity
While announcing the Budget for 2021, the federal government of Australia revealed its plans of spending over $1.2 billion on the country’s Digital Economy Strategy. To make this possible, $130.4 million has been allocated for improving regional connectivity, as part of the Budget 2021. Programmed...
Data Security: Definition, Importance & What it Looks Like in 2023
Data created, collected, exchanged and stored by your company is valuable. Any sort of information – payment data, financial data, sensitive personal information, intellectual property, employee information or customer information – is a goldmine for hackers. The lack of proper infrastructure that keeps this information...
Verizon offloads Verizon Media for $5 billion; sells AOL & Yahoo for half of what it paid
Verizon has announced that it is selling its media group ‘Verizon Media’ to Apollo Global Management, a private equity firm, for $5 billion. As part of the offloading, Verizon will be retaining 10% stake in the company. This will be rebranded (yet again) to Yahoo....
Remote work startup Firstbase raises $13 million
Scottish startup Firstbase has secured $13 million (£9.3 million) in a Series A funding round. The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz and involved participation from Alpaca VC and B Capital Group. As part of capital raise, Andreessen Horowitz will be joining the board of...
Vodafone partners with Google over data analytics
Technology giant Google and telecom operator Vodafone Group Plc have entered a partnership to jointly develop data services. Approximately 1000 employees in Spain, Britain and the United States from both companies will be asked to create ‘Nucleus’, a newcloud storage and analytics portal that’ll hostdata...
