Just about a year back, when afaqs! did a cover story on TikTok, it seemed like the short video platform was nearing the end of its problems in India. It seemed like the major concern for the ByteDance-owned video juggernaut…

Just about a year back, when afaqs! did a cover story on TikTok, it seemed like the short video platform was nearing the end of its problems in India. It seemed like the major concern for the ByteDance-owned video juggernaut…
The ‘technical partnership’ deal struck between US-based business software provider Oracle and ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns TikTok, is unlikely to bring cheers to users of the mobile app in India as the Centre is reportedly in no mood…
Read More TikTok Deal With Oracle May Not Lead Easing Of Ban In India
In the US, TikTok might be on the last legs of negotiation to find itself an American buyer but the big race is on In India. While several names like Microsoft, Twitter, Reliance Jio and now Oracle have come to…
Read More The Big Race For TikTok In India: What’s In It For The Buyer?
Earlier today, we published a research report on the possibilities and the likely outcomes if Oracle was to land TikTok. Since then, I've received many calls from friends in the media about the implication for TikTok's India business and whether or not…
Read More Oracle Running TikTok In India Doesn’t Make Sense: Here’s Why
Sunday night just got exciting, and how! Reports have confirmed that Oracle has won the bid for the U.S. operations of TikTok (a ByteDance company), leaving behind both Microsoft and Walmart from the race. It's being touted that this deal will not…
Read More Oracle Landing TikTok Means A Lot Of Things, But Definitely Not An Ad Network
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On 28 June, when Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the launch of its sixth Asia Pacific (APAC) Region in Mumbai, India, it did nothing short of telling its competitors firmly, especially Microsoft and IBM, that it was stepping up its…
Read More Why AWS Announcement Heralds Public Cloud War In India
It’s not an easy task to choose a cloud computing services provider, especially when companies like Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS), Microsoft Corp., International Business Machines Corp. (IBM), Hewlett-Packard Co., Dell Inc., Oracle Corp. and VMware Inc. are pulling out…
Read More Who Should Be Your Cloud Driver On The Digital Highway?
As a part of its commitment to invest $5 billion in India, Amazon on Tuesday launched its first set of India data centres in Mumbai to cater to cloud computing services here unleashing a new race for the top cloud…
As a part of its commitment to invest $5 billion in India, Amazon has launched its first set of India data centres in Mumbai to cater to cloud computing services here unleashing a new race for the top cloud provider position…
IT veteran Karan Bajwa, who was the Managing Director of Microsoft, is set to join IBM. Bajwa tweeted that he is a reborn IBMer. He was in charge of sales and marketing operations of Microsoft. According to Sanchit Vir Gogia, Chief Analyst…
On Tuesday, 28 June 2016, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the launch of its sixth Asia Pacific (APAC) Region in Mumbai, India. The new AWS Mumbai Region consists of two separate Availability Zones at launch. This news is part of the…
Read More AWS Announces New Asia Pacific Region – Here’s Why It Matters!
For its big day, Apple made sure to create much hype around one product iPad Pro much in advance. And, the launch of the tablet cum laptop targeted at business customers became the highlight of the Apple event. On Sep 9,…
Read More Selling iPad Pro to Indian enterprises no cake walk for Apple
From the demos and the presence of Microsoft touting its productivity applications like Office 360 and Adobe with Photoshop, it was clear that Apple's big iPad Pro announcement was about business users. Thus far, the iPad was seen as a content…
Read More Analysts don’t see Apple iPadPro take a big bite of Indian Enterprise pie
Many startups were waking up to the importance of compliance, Umang Bedi of Adobe tells Businessworld's Vishal Krishna. Five years ago Adobe Systems products were the favourite pirated downloads in India. At the same time, there were so many startups…
When Godrej Consumer Products wanted to implement an analytics solution, it had only one focus in mind: to have overall information visibility, especially in view of the fact that the amount of data a business has to deal with is…
The idea of network administrators having programmable central control of network traffic without requiring physical access to the network’s hardware devices seems to be finally gaining ground. A sign of this is Juniper’s recently announced strategy on SDN, which focuses…
It is no longer a hypothesis. The exponential growth in digital information has brought forth new verticals and businesses—and analytics is a key segment that sprung up in the boom. Research firm IDC projects that the digital universe will reach…
A discussion with IT leaders and managers on cloud security is always an interesting one. While I’ve had the pleasure of having multiple such discussions over the last 2-3 years, the roundtable I chaired during the recent NASSCOM India Leadership…