The US government is moving too slowly to counter the Islamic State group’s fast-paced online propaganda and vast recruitment efforts, experts and lawmakers said Thursday. The large scale and the lightning tempo of the IS group’s social media campaign poses a daunting challenge, particularly for a government bureaucracy ill-equipped to respond quickly or to experiment, experts said. The …

The US government is moving too slowly to counter the Islamic State group’s fast-paced online propaganda and vast recruitment efforts, experts and lawmakers said Thursday.The large scale and the lightning tempo of the IS group’s social media campaign poses a daunting challenge, particularly for a government bureaucracy ill-equipped to respond quickly or to experiment, experts said. The IS can rely …

          The e-commerce market will account for 2.5 percent of the India’s GDP by 2030, growing 15 times and reaching $300 billion, a report said on Wednesday. The current market size of e-commerce is $20 billion. The report by Goldman Sachs cited the “hyper growth in affordable smartphones, improving infrastructure, and a propensity to transact online,” …

When Tata Motors, the home-grown auto major, finally launched its much anticipated sub-compact sedan, the Zest, in India at a starting price of Rs. 4.64 lakh, it became the first product based on their ‘DesigNext, DriveNext, ConnectNext’ philosophy. And it does look good….and why not? The car has been designed with inputs from the three design studios of Tata Motors …

    Authorities in China’s southwestern city of Chengdu visited the offices of Uber on Wednesday as part of a new investigation into the online taxi-hailing service, a spokeswoman for Chengdu’s transportation commission said. The visit is the second made by authorities to Uber’s China offices in the last week. The official Xinhua news agency said on Friday Guangzhou authorities …

      ermany has halted its Internet surveillance for the U.S. National Security Agency(NSA) in response to a row over the BND intelligence agency’s cooperation with Washington, German media reported on Thursday. Allegations that the BND has helped the NSA spy on European officials and firms has put strains on Angela Merkel’s governing coalition with the Social Democrats (SPD) …

    Alibaba’s initial public offering now ranks as the world’s biggest at $25 billion, netting underwriters of the sale a more than $300 million windfall after the e-commerce giant and some shareholders parted with additional shares. The fees are equivalent to 1.2 percent of the total deal, with Alibaba paying $121.8 million in commissions. Selling shareholders are set to …

    Telecom operator Uninor, owned by Norwegian firm Telenor, today reported an operating loss of about Rs. 127 crores in the first quarter ended March 31, 2015. The company posted a profit of about Rs. 1,561 crores a year ago due to refund of licence fee to the tune of Rs. 1,660 crores from the Indian government. The revenue …

    Google in March revealed how it limits or entirely prohibits ad injectors and promisedthat an in-depth study on ad injector ecosystem will be released soon. The search engine giant, as promised, has released results of a study it conducted with University of California, Berkeley and Santa Barbara that observes the ad injector ecosystem up close. Google also adds …

      The EU unveiled plans to shake up rules for online services in the hope that breaking down borders can revive the bloc’s economy, but risks accusations of trying to throw up new barriers to the U.S. firms that dominate its market. With some fanfare, the European Commission presented a range of broad policy proposals on Wednesday. They …