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Team Pumpkin retains its digital mandate for Prega News
Mumbai: A 360-degree brand solution and digital agency, Team Pumpkin retains its digital mandate for Prega News.
Team Pumpkin has been handling the account for Mankind Pharma’s Prega News for a long time. As a part of the mandate, the digital agency will continue its role in handling social media, media planning, media buying, PR, and ORM for Prega News. The agency will also be responsible for the digital strategy and pursue the brand’s loyalty with consistent brand essence.
Team pumpkin has been working with Prega News for the last two years across different areas and assisted the brand to grow its digital follower base with over 2.37 lakh fans across all social media platforms combined.
The agency has executed some impactful campaigns like ‘She Can Carry Both.’ & ‘Cool Hai Meri Maa’, has gained over 16.9+ million video views across YouTube channels.
Team Pumpkin chief business officer Swati Nathani said, “We are overjoyed to be the digital partner of Prega News, a brand which has always been very supportive and refreshing to work with. Extending the digital mandate in itself is a compliment to us and the team. We are excited to add more value to the brand.’
Prega News deputy general manager Joy Chatterjee added, “We feel ecstatic to extend Team Pumpkin as our digital agency. It has been a splendid experience working with their team. We are looking forward to creating more motherly campaigns and driving customer engagement across platforms.”
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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.
