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Cricinfo, Dhruva Interactive to provide cricket content for mobile
MUMBAI: Dhruva Interactive has tied up with Wisden Group’s Cricinfo to provide cutting edge cricket products and applications on the mobile.
Drawing on Cricinfo’s experience as a provider of cricket content and Dhruva Interactive’s expertise as a gaming company, this partnership aims to change the way users experience cricket content on wireless devices. The bouquet of applications will be launched globally during the India-Pakistan series in January.
Dhruva Interactive CEO Rajesh Rao said, “Cricket is undoubtedly India’s favourite sport. Our exclusive tie-up with Cricinfo and Wisden will enable us to develop a series of never-before-seen applications for mobile phones across the globe. We are extremely excited to offer signature content that will extend the cricketing experience to our consumers’ handsets.”
Wisden Group CEO Tom Gleeson added, “We are delighted to be partnering with Dhruva Interactive to develop a series of innovative products and applications that will redefine the way cricket is being consumed on the mobile phone. Cricinfo has long been the home of cricket on the web, we hope to make it the No 1 destination for cricket on the mobile phone as well.”
Cricinfo Mobile creative head Anil Nair said, “Cricinfo will be the hypermarket for cricket in the wireless domain offering a range of information, fun, community and commerce-related products and services across the globe. We will partner with champions in various domains to roll out these products and services and we are very excited to be working with Dhruva Interactive on some seriously cool cricket applications.”
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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.
