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HP Inc. continues to face challenges during its first year as an independent company. The company on Wednesday reported a drop in profit for the third quarter hurt largely by a 4 percent drop in revenues as the company continues to struggle with weak demand for printers. Shares of the computer and printer maker slipped 5 percent in extended session after it detailed a weak fourth quarter outlook, Nasdaq.com reports HP’s third-quarter profit dropped to $783 million or $0.45 per share from $854 million or $0.47 per share last year. Excluding...

Cyber criminals always use innovative techniques to breach the security wall of organizations. Telecom vendors are the top target of cybercriminals and they often use insiders as part of their malicious ‘toolset’, to attack Telecos. According to the latest report by end point security vendor, Kaspersky, Cyber crooks are recruiting disaffected employees through underground channels or blackmailing staff, using compromising information gathered from open sources. New research by Kaspersky Lab and B2B International reveals that 28 percent of all cyber-attacks, and 38 percent of targeted attacks now involve malicious activity by insiders....

Competition Commission has approved the proposed merger deal of Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) with enterprise services segment of Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). The partnership deal will emerge as a pure play IT services companies. According to the deal, announced in May, CSC would merge with Everett Spinco - a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) that holds the enterprise service business. In a tweet, Competition Commission of India (CCI) said it has approved the “demerger of Enterprise Service Business of HPE into Everett Spinco; the latter to become subsidiary of CSC”. Post...

Accenture has entered into an agreement to acquire Redcore, a privately held Australia-based consulting company that specializes in providing identity and access management services (IAM), as well as security services for Cloud, network management, public key infrastructure, cyber defense, applications and the internet of things. The acquisition is subject to customary closing conditions. Financial terms are not being disclosed. As part of its offerings, Redcore develops holistic authentication, authorization and administration services across a range of cloud, web, mobile and adaptive access-management technologies. Redcore has deployed multiple large-scale cybersecurity solutions,...

Getting a new Vodafone mobile connection is now easy, as all one has to do is walk into a Vodafone store with an Aadhar card number, and along with fingerprints of the user, to get a new Vodafone SuperNet connection, either on pre-paid or post-paid basis. The telecom company has even created a special app, which can be used across the 10,000+ stores across the country for instant validation for new mobile connections by the various retailers at these stores. The process of instant validation will start rolling out from...

Consumers are wary of the increased frequency of cyber-attacks against retailers, and many are ready to walk away from their favorite retailers if a breach occurs. In fact, according to the 2016 KPMG Consumer Loss Barometer, in surveying 448 consumers, KPMG found that 19 per cent said they would stop shopping at a retailer that had been a victim of a cybersecurity hack, even if the company took the necessary steps to remediate the issue. In addition to those who would abandon the retailer entirely, 33 per cent of the consumers...

Data Xgen Technologies has launched a paid email address service in Hindi characters or Devanagari script. The company also plans to roll out free registration of such IDs on the lines of Gmail, Outlook and Yahoo soon. “A few hundred IDs have been created till now on .bharat domain, which is available in Devanagari script. Anyone interested in Hindi script ID can visit our website and buy email package as per their need,” PTI report published in ET quoted Data Xgen Technologies Founder Ajay Data as saying. Email sent from these addresses...

Marketing Professor, Gautam Challagalla of business school IMD, Switzerland has invested an undisclosed amount in a Mumbai-based startup NearU “The NearU team is excited to have Gautam Challagalla as one of its investors as his expertise in marketing will help it pave the way for its future marketing plans and expansion in international regions,” said Hemanth Meka Rao, founder and CEO, NearU Mobile Pvt. Ltd. NearU is a location-based mobile app for deal discovery. The startup follows an online-to-offline model connecting users to outlets. The app showcases live information on...

In the digitized, Internet has become an integral part of our lives. Internet which has become base of our communication and information exchange has turned 25 years old today. Here are some interesting facts about the journey of Internet so far. #1. Computer scientist Sir Tim Berners-Lee is the inventor of internet or World Wide Web (www). Sir Lee developed internet at CERN Labs in Switzerland. Sir Tim wrote the protocol for WWW on a NeXT machine, a computer developed by late Steve Jobs, who was CEO of Apple . # 2....