GoDaddy acquires SkyVerge in e-commerce push
GoDaddy has announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the WooCommerce product developer SkyVerge for an undisclosed sum.As one of the world's leading web hosting companies,...
Oracle’s TikTok non-acquisition seeks Treasury, White House approval
Enlarge / The TikTok logo displayed on a smartphone, with logo of parent company ByteDance in the background. President Donald Trump spent several months pushing to have TikTok banned or...
New Google Fiber plan: $100 for 2Gbps, plus Wi-Fi 6 router and mesh extender
Getty Images | Yuichiro Chino Google Fiber will soon offer 2Gbps service for $100 a month, a package that includes a Wi-Fi 6 router and mesh extender, the Alphabet-owned ISP...
Microsoft hails heightened reliability of servers run in sub-sea datacentres
Microsoft has concluded that underwater datacentres are a reliable, practical and energy-efficient alternative to traditional land-based server farms, following the completion of a multi-year research project on this topic. The...
The harsh reality for newspapers in the fight against Facebook, is that people won’t pay for news
A useful guide, should you need one, in the business world is that you cannot force someone to pay more than they think a thing is worth. You might be...
Flipkart Big Billion Days to create 70,000 direct jobs
Indian e-commerce biggie Flipkart hopes to make it big with its well-known shopping event, Big Billion Days, this festival season. It says it would create direct job opportunities across the company’s...
TikTok-Oracle partnership moves forward for consideration
The proposed partnership between TikTok and Oracle will – if approved by the US authorities – see the creation in the US of a brand new company and 20,000 jobs,...
Watch TV together with Facebook friends – here’s how
Facebook recently began connecting its Messenger and Instagram chats some time back. In 2018, it had launched the watch together feature that enabled users to set up virtual rooms to...
Telecom watchdog rules out regulating OTT messaging players in India | TechRadar
India's telecom watchdog Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has decided not to clamp down any regulation on privacy and security of OTT (Over-the-Top) communication services at the moment.In its...
New Windows exploit lets you instantly become admin. Have you patched?
Researchers have developed and published a proof-of-concept exploit for a recently patched Windows vulnerability that can allow access to an organization’s crown jewels—the Active Directory domain controllers that act as...