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Virtual memorial builder LyfeIndex looks to expand to India
MUMBAI: There’s a part of you which is painfully missing your lost loved one. And you can’t seem to remember where you kept the voice recording, the pictures, the videos of the one you miss.
No sweat, what you could log on to Lyfeindex and sign into your account, where you have taken the pains to store everything you have about your loved one.
Lyfeindex is an innovative platform that aims to honour the lives of departed loved ones by providing lasting digital space for writing and sharing memorials.
Founded by Manoj Swarup on 2 September 2019, in London, LyfeIndex was born from a personal mission to help individuals and families preserve their legacies and memories. Today, the platform has rapidly evolved into a digital archiving solution with 10,000+ users globally, allowing people worldwide to create interactive, lasting memorials for their loved ones – family and friends. .
One can create individual profiles that serve as digital tributes, containing important details such as their biography, photographs and significant milestones. This enables users to build a comprehensive narrative, that truly captures the essence and legacy of their loved ones.
LyfeIndex was created with a simple yet profound belief — every life tells a unique story that deserves to be remembered. The platform offers a comprehensive, interactive digital space where memories transcend geographic boundaries, enabling families to create lasting memories for their loved ones.
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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.
