VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

PayU acquires Wibmo for $70 Mn : Financial institutions, internet payment service providers (PSPs), credit card companies, and all the payment solution companies to give all the services online, mobile banking and commerce are faced with the mounting challenge of making digital transactions safer. VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE

Paytm Money brings in web version for a better investment experience : Paytm Money has announced the launch of its web & mobile web version of its investment platform to assist users with the discovery & research of mutual funds while simplifying investments. VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE

Airtel joins hand with Cisco to bring advanced connectivity solutions to its customers : Bharti Airtel (“Airtel”) and Cisco have announced an alliance to offer advanced networking and connectivity solutions to enterprise and SMB customers in India. This partnership will leverage Airtel’s deep customer relationships and network to offer highly secure and cutting-edge digitization technology from Cisco in India. VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE

Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp are down: What exactly is the Issue ? : It comes just one month after Facebook experienced its worse ever outage - with both social networks and WhatsApp having issues for 24 hours and users across the world complained of Facebook and some of its applications including WhatsApp. It has latter confirmed the problem was not the result of a DDoS attack, which refers to a Distributed Denial-of-Service attack in which a hacker overwhelms a site by flooding it with fake traffic. VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE

Jio becomes world's fastest company to get 100 million subscribers : Reliance Jio has crossed the 300 million customers mark in two-and-a-half years of its operations, sources said in In its earnings report for the quarter ended December 2018, Bharti Airtel had disclosed that it had 284 million customers. VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE

The pound will rally but business needs decision not more fudging : The pound will benefit from a relief rally – but little else has changed - as Theresa May is forced to concede a medium delay to Brexit, affirms the CEO of the world’s largest independent financial advisory organisation. The message from deVere Group’s Nigel Green comes as officials in Brussels say EU leaders have agreed a delay to Brexit to 31 October . VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE

Global smart speaker installed base to top 200 million by end of 2019 : The worldwide smart speaker installed base will grow 82.4% from 114.0 million units in 2018 to 207.9 million in 2019. The US is expected to maintain its lead in terms of smart speaker adoption, accounting for 42.2% of the global smart speaker installed base by the end of the year,as per canalys report. The East Asian markets stood out, particularly China, as these countries present larger growth opportunities due to the sheer number of middle-class households and a working population willing to embrace new technology. The Chinese market is one of the world’s most competitive, yet Google and Amazon have no presence there. VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE

Will It Be Right To Guess…Microsoft Would Acquire Adobe : When we see the interest of Microsoft to tie-up with Adobe, with the joint announcements in September 2017 about an expanded partnership for the default chat-based workspace in Office 365, is now the preferred collaboration service for Adobe Creative Cloud, Document Cloud and Experience Cloud. VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE