Amazon’s Great Indian Sale has a slew of electronic devices up on sale. These not just include smartphones, laptops and smart speakers but also large appliances like TVs. Companies like LG, Xiaomi, VU, Micromax and others are offering their TVs at less than usual prices as a part of the […]
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Samsung plans to set up a new plant in Noida
Samsung Display, South Korea’s major display panel maker and an affiliate of Samsung Electronics, plans to invest $500 million in India to set up a manufacturing unit. According to US tech media outlet TechCrunch, Samsung Display filed an investment plan with India’s regulator earlier this month, saying the plant in […]
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Android R developer preview spotted running on Google Pixel 4
With the next edition of Android operating system (OS) reportedly around the corner, a benchmark test has been spotted on Geekbench which indicates that a Google Pixel 4 smartphone was running the upcoming Android R OS — the 11th iteration. Looking at the GeekBench listing itself, there sadly isn’t any […]
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Snap CEO Evan Spiegel says TikTok could become bigger than Instagram
Snap Inc. Chief Executive Officer Evan Spiegel says TikTok could become bigger than rival Instagram. Chinese giant ByteDance Inc. has emerged as the world’s most valuable startup on the explosive popularity of TikTok, known as Douyin locally, where users share short clips of lip-syncing and dance videos. The short-form video service […]
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TikTok-parent ByteDance to enter gaming space, set to take on Tencent
ByteDance Inc. is preparing a major push into the mobile arena’s most lucrative market, a realm Tencent Holdings Ltd. has dominated for over a decade: games. Sign up for Next China, a weekly email on where the nation stands now and where it’s going next. The world’s most valuable startup […]
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Airtel launches Rs 179 prepaid plan with Bharti AXA Life Insurance bundle
Bharti Airtel on Sunday announced its partnership with Bharti AXA Life Insurance to introduce its most affordable prepaid bundle with built in life insurance cover of Rs 2 lakh. Airtel’s new prepaid bundle at Rs 179 offers unlimited calling to any network, 2 GB data, 300 SMS along with a […]
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Instagram removes the IGTV button, cites lack of usage as reason
Instagram, back in June 2019, had introduced the IGTV app for watching long-form and vertical videos. The company also integrated this feature in its main app using a TV icon on the app’s top right corner. Now, less than a year later Instagram has decided to remove the button from the […]
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX launches, destroys rocket in astronaut escape test
SpaceX completed the last big test of its crew capsule before launching astronauts in the next few months, mimicking an emergency escape shortly after liftoff Sunday. No one was aboard for the wild ride in the skies above Cape Canaveral, just two mannequins. The nine-minute flight ended with the Dragon […]
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Sonos CEO tells House antitrust panel Google abused its power
Sonos Inc. Chief Executive Officer Patrick Spence accused Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Amazon.com Inc. of using their market power to thwart competition a week after filing a lawsuit against the world’s largest search engine. “Today’s dominant companies have so much power across such a broad array of markets and continue […]
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Lessons to be learned from Facebook’s WhatsApp buyout, French watchdog says
Facebook’s $22 billion buyout of WhatsApp six years ago should have been blocked, the boss of France’s antitrust watchdog, which is set to help review EU rules, has told Reuters. “Clearly, deals such as the Facebook/WhatsApp merger should probably not have been allowed,” Isabelle de Silva said in an interview. “One of […]
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Huawei to use Dutch company TomTom’s maps and services
Dutch navigation and digital mapping company TomTom on Friday said it has closed a deal with China’s Huawei Technologies for the use of its maps and services in smartphone apps. Huawei was forced to develop its own operating system for smartphones, after it was effectively blacklisted by U.S. President Donald Trump’s […]
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Apple along with its employees donated $100 million in 2019
Apple has revealed that 21,000 of its employees donated $42 million, combined with the companys 1-for-1 donation match and $25 match per volunteer hour, making a total of $100 million to causes in 2019. “We have a mission here at Apple to change the world for the better, and give […]
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Alphabet becomes 4th US company to hit $1 trillion mark
Sundar Pichai-led Alphabet, Google’s parent company, has joined the elitist club of US companies with $1 trillion valuation which includes Apple, Microsoft and Amazon. The stock of the company closed at $1,451.70 on Thursday, taking the value to $1 trillion. The iPhone maker was the first US company to hit the […]
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5 features we want to see on WhatsApp in 2020
With over 400 million users in India, WhatsApp is undoubtedly one of the most popular messaging apps. WhatsApp has rolled out several interesting updates over the years but there still remain certain features that we want to see in the app, ones that will make it all the better for daily use. […]
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Twitter apologizes for letting ads be micro-targeted using words like ‘transphobic’, ‘white supremacists’, ‘anti-gay’
Following a BBC investigation, Twitter has apologized for “allowing adverts to be micro-targeted at certain users such as neo-Nazis, homophobes and other hate groups”. The investigation found that it was possible to “target users who had shown an interest in keywords including ‘transphobic’, ‘white-supremacists’ and ‘anti-gay’,”. Twitter allowed adverts to be directed […]