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Aidem to handle Radiowalla Network’s ad sales
MUMBAI: Media consulting, marketing and advertising sales company Aidem Ventures will be handling the sales for Radiowalla Network’s SpotRadio and Radiowalla properties. Radiowalla Network is a young startup, which was launched in August last year.
SpotRadio offers customised radio business solutions to retail and corporate businesses. It is a 24×7 internet based radio service that offers entertainment solutions through in-store radio networks that plays music and other radio programming for entertainment of customers. The service creates customised, targeted and premium radio for clients taking into consideration their customers’ and employees‘ taste and preferences by building music associations that connect a customer and employees to a brand.
Providing control, customisation and flexibility, SpotRadio helps clients target their in-store audience by inserting promotional messages that are used to inform customers in real time about on-going sales, events and promotions.
Radiowalla is a direct-to-consumer radio service which offers a variety of special interest, mood enhancing Internet radio channels that indulge audiences worldwide. Radiowalla offers music and non-music streaming audio channels delivered via broadband across most digital and mobile platforms.
Aidem Ventures executive vice president Kaushal Dalal said, “We believe that SpotRadio and Radiowalla offer a valuable service and are excited to be associated with these. This will be a great opportunity for establishments as well as for advertisers that are looking to tap a captive audience and build brand character. As for Radiowalla, internet radio offers many advantages over personal saved music and is in line with building our online sales strategy.”
Radiowalla Network CEO and co-founder Anil Srivatsa said “SpotRadio is rapidly picking up pace and is already present across 40+ retail chains and over 3000 locations in India. Gloria Jean’s, Costa Coffee, Lifestyle, Fastrack and Puma are some of the major brands that are already on board. Commercial establishments have been very receptive to the idea of SpotRadio. With Aidem’s strong foothold in the media sales and service space, we are positive that this partnership will establish SpotRadio and Radiowalla as the category leader.”
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Google completes $32 billion Wiz deal to boost AI and cloud security
Wiz joins Google Cloud but keeps multi-cloud support across rival platforms
NEW YORK: Google has completed its $32 billion acquisition of cloud security company Wiz, marking the biggest deal in the tech giant’s history and signalling a major push to strengthen security in the era of artificial intelligence and multi-cloud computing.
The New York-headquartered cybersecurity firm will join Google Cloud while continuing to operate under the Wiz brand. Crucially, the company will maintain support for multiple cloud platforms, including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud, reflecting the reality that most large organisations run their systems across several cloud providers.
Google said the acquisition is designed to help organisations build and scale applications more securely as businesses and governments increasingly move critical systems and data to the cloud. At the same time, the rapid adoption of generative AI has introduced new cybersecurity risks, with attackers also using AI to launch faster and more sophisticated attacks.
Wiz has built a reputation for simplifying cloud security. Its platform maps entire cloud environments, identifying vulnerabilities, potential attack paths and misconfigurations before they can be exploited. By connecting insights from code, cloud infrastructure and runtime environments, it allows security and engineering teams to detect and fix risks early in the development cycle.
Bringing Wiz into Google Cloud will create what the company describes as a unified security platform capable of detecting, preventing and responding to threats across cloud and AI environments. The combined offering will also integrate Google’s own security capabilities, including threat intelligence tools, security operations platforms and the cybersecurity expertise of Mandiant.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai said the move reflects the growing importance of security as more organisations rely on AI and cloud technologies. “Keeping people safe online has always been part of Google’s mission,” he said, adding that the partnership will help organisations innovate with greater confidence.
Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian, said the goal is to make security an enabler rather than a roadblock for businesses building modern applications. He noted that the combined technologies will simplify the complex task of protecting hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
For Wiz, the acquisition opens the door to global scale while keeping its core philosophy intact. Co-founder and CEO Assaf Rappaport said the company remains committed to an open, multi-cloud approach and will continue supporting customers regardless of where their workloads run.
Over the past year, Wiz has expanded its platform to address emerging risks tied to AI applications, including tools that help organisations monitor AI usage, detect AI-specific vulnerabilities and secure AI workloads during runtime.
With Google’s infrastructure, artificial intelligence capabilities and security ecosystem now behind it, Wiz plans to accelerate development of its platform while continuing to serve enterprises, governments and start-ups operating across different cloud environments.
For Google Cloud, the acquisition adds a powerful piece to its security puzzle as competition intensifies among global cloud providers. For customers, it promises a future where building fast in the cloud does not have to come at the expense of staying secure.
