Top 10 stories of the week: December 03rd to 09th December 2018
In no particular order, here are MediaNama’s top 10 stories of the week ended 9th December 2018 MediaNama would like to thank its sponsors: E2E, for…
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#NAMApolicy: Personalisation, security, data breaches of IoT and more
At NAMApolicy on the Security and Privacy of IoT at Delhi, Internet Society's Rajnesh Singh started with a parable: Singh's family works in the agricul…
#NAMApolicy: Challenges with IoT biometrics, consent, regulation, data sharing and more
At NAMApolicy on the Security and Privacy of IoT at Delhi, multiple stakeholders discussed what IoT devices' policies revolve around, why we need to de…
Vodafone-Idea merger could improve data upload speeds: OpenSignal
By Nikhil Cariappa The merger between Vodafone and Idea could improve upload speeds for their subscribers, Open Signal, said in a blog. In its lates…
Tumblr to ban adult content; allows lit-erotica, nude art
Tumblr has announced the permanent banning of "adult content" on its website starting 17 December. Jeff D'Onofrio, the CEO of Tumblr, also wrote a post…
BookMyShow launches planned events vertical ‘Activities’
BookMyShow has now added an 'Activities' tab, offering ticket booking for movies, events and plays. Activities will offer options around food & dri…
Threats, Likes, Data-gate: What internal Facebook documents reveal
The UK Parliament’s digital, culture, media, and sport (DCMS) Committee was looking at Facebook’s internal documents with respect to Cambridge Analytic…
MasterCard and Microsoft to launch a decentralised, universal digital ID
MasterCard and Microsoft have collaborated to make a globally inter-operable digital identity service. However, their press statement does not specify …
Cleartrip lets go of around 100 employees: report
Cleartrip has let go of 100 employees across Gurgaon, Mumbai and Bangalore, reports the Economic Times. ET cites sources as saying that this was becaus…
Fabrento’s FabEvents to provide furniture rental for events
Fabrento, the online furniture rental start-up, has rolled out a new service called FabEvents where users can lease furniture for events payable per da…
Funding Roundup: Skillbox, CropIn, Niramai, Aye Finance and more
By Trisha Jalan and Nikhil Cariappa Investments in November 2018 Company Name: iChamp Amount raised: Undisclosed Type: Seed funding Sector: Educat…
Zomato acquires Lucknow-based drone startup TechEagle
Zomato has acquired a Lucknow-based startup which works only on drones, to work on delivery through hybrid multi-rotor drones. The company did not disc…