Amazon India enters ed-tech with Amazon Academy
It's all happening in the Indian ed-tech sector.On a day when it emerged that India's leading online education portal Byju's was set to acquire entrance exam preparation centre Aakash Institute,...
Why is Byju’s putting $1 billion on Aakash coaching centre?
India’s biggest online-education startup Byju’s has signed a deal to acquire brick & mortar entrance test preparation institute Aakash Educational Services Ltd for $1 billion.This deal is said to be...
Hackers steal Mimecast certificate used to encrypt customers’ M365 traffic
Getty Images Email management provider Mimecast said that hackers have compromised a digital certificate it issued and used it to target select customers who use it to encrypt data they...
Bahrain hopes 5G roll-out will attract more tech firms to its shores
Bahrain has completed the roll-out of 5G as part of its strategy to diversify its economy and reduce its reliance on oil and gas. Two of three mobile operators in...
Research highlights lack of preparedness ahead of April 2021 start date
Despite being gifted an additional 12 months to prepare, the private sector remains ill-equipped to cope with the the onset of the delayed IR35 private sector reforms, research suggests. According...
Broadband’s best kept secret has one of the leading fibre deals in the UK
Sometimes it's not all about the big name providers. If you look hard enough you'll find hidden gems like Direct Save Telecom, a broadband provider offering one of the best...
Parler collapse opens door to phishing attacks
The publication of huge amounts of data on users of defunct social network Parler, gathered by ethical hackers in the last hours before the site’s shutdown, almost certainly heralds new...
Inventor of the web tries to fix it with a decentralised data project
The recent controversy over WhatsApp's decision to start sharing some user data with Facebook has brought the issue of data privacy to the forefront of people's mind again. In reality, it...
Parler’s amateur coding could come back to haunt Capitol Hill rioters
Getty Images By now, you may have heard of the hacker who says she scraped 99 percent of posts from Parler, the Twitter-wannabe site used by Trump supporters to help...
Retail giant Walmart to launch a fintech
US retailer Walmart has announced its intention to launch a financial technology (fintech) startup in partnership with a specialist investment company. The fintech, created in partnership with Ribbit Capital, will...