Digital Age

Alibaba co-founder and China's richest man Jack Ma to step down, will focus on philanthropy

As he prepares to leave the company, Jack Ma is among China's richest men with a net worth estimated by Forbes at $38.6 billion.

Aadhaar hearing: Petitioners conclude their arguments on 'the number of the beast' Aadhaar, highlighting various issues

Issues raised were lack of proportionality and purpose, limitation with the large-scale collection and retention of data under the Aadhaar Project.

WEF, Reliance Industries partner to set up Center for Fourth Industrial Revolution in Mumbai

The World Economic Forum (WEF) has been championing the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

SC examines if privacy can be a fundamental right, questions contours of debate in digital age

The arguments remained inconclusive and would resume on 25 July when Attorney General KK Venugopal would put forth the government's views

Personal data isn’t a commodity to be sold at the whim of companies, especially in the digital age

Data broking in the era of ‘Big Data’ and smart cities leads to big privacy concerns. A recent investigation by The Economic Times revealed that the personal data of lakhs of Indians is available from data brokers for less than a rupee per person.

Telcos To Transform IT, Service Technologies For Digital Age

To compensate for declining voice revenues and to find new growth, CSPs will need to develop a wide range of new digital services.

Mastercard updates its iconic logo for the digital age

The change in the logo is to reflect the modern, simple and connected Mastercard services.

From video games to internet porn: How connectivity is blurring our lines of morality in the virtual and the real

Many children learn to identity spoofing or theft for the first time on the internet. So a 10-year-old girl pretending to be 13 to access Facebook, or a 16-year-old boy masquerading as his father to access an adult site, commit their first instances of fraud on the internet

Decoding the brain: Why digital-age kids have quicker minds than their parents

According to the latest findings, tech-savvy kids gain superficial memory as opposed to the deeper memory bank of their literary counterparts.

Dealing with security threats in the digital age

The rise and rise of cyber-attacks isn’t set to come to a halt any time soon, so it’s pivotal that businesses prepare for a new generation of cyber risks.