Technology

Japanese finance minister Taro Aso criticised on Sunday a US tax reform proposal that he said could undermine global efforts to agree new rules on taxing big tech companies. The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) is developing rules to make digital companies pay tax where they do business, […]

Failure to reach a global deal on where and how much to tax digital giants such as Google, Amazon or Facebook would result in many digital tax regimes emerging all over the world, France’s finance minister said on Sunday. It would also likely trigger US retaliatory tariffs, US Treasury Secretary […]

Apple is expected to give us a first glance of the iOS 14 at the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) that will take place in June this year. Ahead of the company’s annual event, a new report has given us the first look of what we should expect from Apple’s next generation mobile […]

E-commerce giant Amazon has completed the acquisition of Turkish data processing startup company DataRow. Eren Baydemir, who founded the company with Can Abacigil in 2017, tweeted to confirm the acquisition. “A new chapter begins for DataRow today. Our team is very excited to join AWS, and we can’t wait to see what […]

Chinese behemoth BBK Group’s smartphone brand iQOO’s first product, iQOO 3 5G, will be available in India on Flipkart and iqoo.com in the sub-Rs 40,000 price range. The device, set to be launched on February 25 in India, will house Snapdragon 865 chipset with 5G capabilities and come with 48MP quad-camera […]

Google has warned of serious security and privacy implications of downloading its Android apps other than the Google Play store. Directed at the new Huawei customers, Google said its applications and services aren’t available for downloading on the official app store or sideload on new Huawei devices. It is worth […]

Reliance Jio has launched two short validity plans for the JioPhone users. These plans are worth Rs 49 and Rs 69 and they both come with a validity of 14 days. According to the Jio website, the Rs 49 plan, which the company removed after tariff revision back in December last […]

Apple transformed the wearable market forever with the launch of the AirPods. The wireless Bluetooth device has been an inspiration for countless similar gadgets. Though originally designed for iOS devices such as iPad and iPhone, AirPods can be connected to other gadgets, including Android or Windows phones, laptops and Windows PC. Apple […]

Hospitality unicorn OYO has said that it will introduce a bug bounty programme towards ensuring that there is a credible and continuous flow of positive feedback from independent security groups and individual researchers to mitigate against any bug or shortfall in the company’s systems. This is in line with the established […]

Perhaps one of the lesser known features of Gmail is the ability to automatically forward specific emails to another email ID. As a part of the feature, one can choose to automatically forward all mails or select only a few that needs to be forwarded. This feature can only be […]

WhatsApp in today’s time is not just another app, it has become a necessity. Slightest non-functioning of the app becomes a cause of concern for users. Imagine the plight if the account gets blocked? When you get the message your account is “temporarily banned” it implies that the WhatsApp version […]

Driven by Huawei, China remained the largest contributor to the global 5G market, capturing 46% of the total 5G devices sell-through in 2019, a new report said on Thursday. While Samsung led the global 5G sales with over 40% of the market share, Huawei (including Honor) alone captured 74% of 5G sales […]

According to a Business Insider report, Google’s Cloud Vision API service will no longer label photos of people with ‘man’ or ‘woman’. Cloud Vision API is an AI-powered tool that helps developers identify components in an image. Google sent out an email to Cloud Vision API customers stating that the […]

Dropbox Inc on Thursday reported a better-than-expected quarterly profit, raised its outlook for operating margin and announced a $600 million share buyback, sending its shares up 11% in trading after the bell. The company raised its operating margin target between 28% and 30%, which it expects to achieve by 2024, […]

The US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has sued Facebook for $9 billion in unpaid taxes, alleging that the social networking giant undervalued the intellectual property it sold to the subsidiary, thereby dodging billions in taxes. The IRS lawsuit, filed in a San Francisco court, claimed that Facebook “undervalued the royalty […]