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E-tailers begin 2nd festive sale round after 7-day fiesta |
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New Delhi | Saturday, 2020 11:15:06 PM IST |
| After registering record sales in the seven-day period to kick off the festive season after pandemic-induced lockdowns, ecommerce marketplaces like Amazon and Flipkart have announced the second round of online sales to keep up the momentum. ... read.. |
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Global smart speaker market to reach 163mn units in 2021 |
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New Delhi | Saturday, 2020 7:15:07 PM IST |
| Led by Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant powered devices, the global smart speaker market (including smart displays) is set to reach 163 million units in 2021 -- a growth of 21 per cent -- according to a new report. ... read.. |
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Data is fuel, 5G fabric for digital transformation: Michael Dell |
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New Delhi | Saturday, 2020 4:45:05 PM IST |
| Reiterating that technology has never been more central than it is in the pandemic times, Dell Technologies chairman and CEO Michael Dell has said digital transformation is like a machine with data as its fuel and 5G as its digital fabric. ... read.. |
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FB details privacy work as US FTC discusses antitrust lawsuit |
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San Francisco | Saturday, 2020 3:45:06 PM IST |
| Facing an intense scrutiny over user privacy and data security, Facebook has said it is continuing to invest in research and innovation that will help it build privacy-safe products and develop new ways to process data. ... read.. |
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NASA's OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft collects significant amount of asteroid |
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Washington | October 24, 2020 8:12:26 AM IST |
| Two days after touching down on asteroid Bennu, NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission team received on Thursday, October 22, images that confirm the spacecraft has collected more than enough material to meet one of its main mission requirements - acquiring at least 2 ... read.. |
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We're customising data storage for Indians: Western Digital |
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New Delhi | Friday, 2020 9:45:06 PM IST |
| As work from home triggered the need for storing and managing data effectively especially for those who are not on Cloud, storage solutions major Western Digital said on Friday that it is continuously introducing customised and purpose-built solutions bas ... read.. |
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Digital protectionism would be harmful: FB warns EU leaders |
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San Francisco | Friday, 2020 8:15:06 PM IST |
| As the EU is about to produce a slew of new draft regulations, including a Digital Services Act covering everything from misinformation to app stores, Facebook's head of global affairs Nick Clegg has written an open letter warning policy makers that a shi ... read.. |
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WeWork India strengthens leadership to boost growth |
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Bengaluru | Friday, 2020 7:45:06 PM IST |
| As workers continue to return to offices after lockdown, co-working major WeWork on Friday announced to strengthen its vision of attaining profitable and sustainable growth across all spaces through some key appointments in India. ... read.. |
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Intel reports 4% revenue drop in fiscal Q3 |
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San Francisco | Friday, 2020 6:45:05 PM IST |
| Intel's fiscal third-quarter revenue reached $18.3 billion, down 4 per cent year-over-year as its data-centric revenue declined 10 per cent while PC-centric revenue was better than expected, up one per cent YoY, the company said. ... read.. |
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LG Display logs profit in 2 years as IT gadgets, TVs demand soar |
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Seoul | Friday, 2020 5:15:06 PM IST |
| Major display panel maker LG Display Co has swung to the black in the third quarter of the year on the back of robust demand for displays used in IT gadgets and increased shipments of large-size panels for TVs amid the pandemic-driven stay-at-home trend. ... read.. |
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FB to roll out secure hosting service for businesses on WhatsApp |
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New Delhi | Friday, 2020 3:45:05 PM IST |
| In next step towards monetising WhatsApp after introducing shopping and pricing tiers to the mobile-messaging platform, Facebook has now announced a new way for businesses to store and manage their WhatsApp chats with customers using Facebooks secure host ... read.. |
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FB users can now approach Oversight Board against content removal |
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San Francisco | Friday, 2020 3:15:06 PM IST |
| An independent Facebook oversight board with 20 external members of the society (including one from India) is now functional and people who disagree with Facebooks decision to take down content and has exhausted its existing appeals process, can appeal th ... read.. |
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Apple ships record 8 lakh units to India in Q3 |
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New Delhi | Friday, 2020 2:45:05 AM IST |
| Apple, which launched its online store in India last month, had a strong run in the third quarter, shipping nearly 8 lakh units in the country and registering double-digit growth, a news report said on Thursday. ... read.. |
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Punjab develops poultry supplement from kinnow peels |
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Chandigarh | Friday, 2020 2:15:06 AM IST |
| The Punjabi University in Patiala and state-run Punjab Agro in a joint collaboration on Thursday announced to develop poultry feed LimoPan, which is a bioengineered nutraceutical derived from kinnow peels. ... read.. |
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India's smartphone shipments hit record 50mn in Q3, Xiaomi leads |
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New Delhi | Friday, 2020 1:45:06 AM IST |
| Smartphone shipments in India hit an all-time high of 50 million units in the third quarter of this year, registering eight per cent year-over-year growth, said a Canalys report on Thursday. Xiaomi remained the market leader, growing nine per cent to ship ... read.. |
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VC investment in India rose to $3.6 bn in Q3: KPMG |
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New Delhi | Friday, 2020 1:15:07 AM IST |
| Venture capital investment in India rose from $1.5 billion in the second quarter of this year to $3.6 billion in Q3 despite concerns related to Covid-19 and geopolitical tensions, according to a new report by KPMG Private Enterprise on Thursday. ... read.. |
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Microsoft to make business travel by employees pollution-free |
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San Francisco | Thursday, 2020 11:45:06 PM IST |
| In a novel move to reduce carbon emissions, Microsoft on Thursday announced it would buy credits for sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) to cover travel on flight routes the most-frequented by its employees during business trips. ... read.. |
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Apple design veteran Jony Ive now sprucing up Airbnb |
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San Francisco | Thursday, 2020 8:45:06 PM IST |
| Former Apple Chief Design Officer Jony Ive, the person behind the look and feel of the iPhone or iMac that you use today, will soon be helping online home rental company Airbnb design its next-generation products and services. ... read.. |
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Techbooze starts pumping heavy funds into Indian startups |
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New Delhi | Thursday, 2020 7:45:06 PM IST |
| Leading service-based enterprise consultancy Techbooze Consultancy on Thursday said it has started facilitating investments heavily into the startup ecosystem after the recent capital raise by its global investors. ... read.. |
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Soyuz spacecraft brings 3 ISS crew members to Earth |
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Washington | Thursday, 2020 7:15:06 PM IST |
| A Russian Soyuz spacecraft on Thursday safely brought NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy and cosmonauts Ivan Vagner and Anatoly Ivanishin of the Russian space agency Roscosmos from International Space Station (ISS) to Earth. ... read.. |
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Delivery start-up Pidge to launch services in Mumbai |
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Gurugram | Thursday, 2020 7:15:06 PM IST |
| After one year of operating successfully in the Delhi-NCR region, delivery start-up Pidge on Thursday announced that company will soon start its delivery service in Mumbai and is looking at 1,500 delivery staff under its payroll by the end of the year. ... read.. |
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Swiggy onboards 7K new restaurants, delivers over 10 cr orders |
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New Delhi | Thursday, 2020 7:15:06 PM IST |
| Online food delivery platform Swiggy on Thursday revealed it has onboarded more than 7,000 new restaurants a month on Swiggy which is 3,000 more than the pre-covid times, along with delivering 10 crore orders since the beginning of the lockdown. ... read.. |
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Google internships to remain virtual in 2021 |
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San Francisco | Thursday, 2020 4:15:06 PM IST |
| Google has announced to keep its summer internship programme virtual in 2021, as the tech giant continues to prioritise health and safety during the ongoing pandemic. ... read.. |
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3 in 4 Indian firms saw 25% rise in cyber threats during WFH |
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New Delhi | Thursday, 2020 4:15:06 PM IST |
| Over three in four organisations in India experienced more than 25 per cent more increase in cyber threats or alerts amid the shift to mass remote working owing to the pandemic, a new Cisco report revealed on Thursday. ... read.. |
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Some glaciers are also advancing: Geology professor |
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Lucknow | Thursday, 2020 3:45:06 PM IST |
| Prof Dhruvsen Singh, of the geology department in the Lucknow University, has said that glaciers in the Himalayas are retreating but some are also advancing which proves that global warming is not the only reason behind the phenomenon. ... read.. |
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Nvidia chips again smash AI performance records |
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San Francisco | Thursday, 2020 3:15:06 PM IST |
| Graphic chip maker Nvidia has once again smashed performance records for its AI computing platform in the latest benchmark test rounds of MLPerf, extending its lead on AI performance of hardware, software and services. ... read.. |
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Facebook Dating app expands to Europe with 'Virtual Dates' |
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San Francisco | Thursday, 2020 3:15:06 PM IST |
| Facebook has expanded its Dating app to Europe with a new feature called Virtual Dates and according to the social network, over 1.5 billion matches have been created in the 20 countries since the launch of Facebook Dating in September last year. ... read.. |
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Jio revamps its made-in-India browser as JioPages |
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New Delhi | Thursday, 2020 3:15:06 AM IST |
| Reliance Jio has revamped its made-in-India browser as JioPages, which supports eight Indian languages -- Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Gujarati, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada and Bangla. ... read.. |
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Cabinet okays MoU between India and Nigeria on space cooperation |
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New Delhi | Thursday, 2020 2:45:06 AM IST |
| The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi was on Wednesday apprised of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed between India and Nigeria on cooperation in the exploration and uses of outer space for peaceful purposes. ... read.. |
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Truecaller now lets you set call reason, SMS scheduling, translation |
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Bengaluru | Wednesday, 2020 11:45:06 PM IST |
| Swedish caller identification app Truecaller on Wednesday introduced new features, including one that allows users to set a reason for their call, and enable the receiver to check whether the incoming call is personal, business or something urgent. ... read.. |
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Dell unveils Cloud Console, eyes everything as a service |
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New Delhi | Wednesday, 2020 9:45:06 PM IST |
| In a bid to help customers and partners on their digital transformation journey in the pandemic times, Dell Technologies on Wednesday announced a Cloud Console that will provide customers a single interface to manage multi-cloud, on-premise and edge deplo ... read.. |
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Mozilla fears it can be collateral damage in US-Google war |
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San Francisco | Wednesday, 2020 9:15:06 PM IST |
| As the US Department of Justice and 11 states take on Google with an anti-trust lawsuit over its alleged anti-competitive practices in the Search and Search advertising markets, open source popular browser Mozilla Firefox is worried it could be collateral ... read.. |
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OnePlus 8T: Must upgrade for 120hz display, superfast charging |
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New Delhi | Wednesday, 2020 6:45:06 PM IST |
| Amid the crowd only a few stand out and this is true for OnePlus which has impressed Indian smartphone users with its range of flagships (even the mid-price Nord has done wonders). The brand is now ready to end the year with a bang -- launching OnePlus 8T ... read.. |
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We still have much work to do in India market: Netflix |
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New Delhi | Wednesday, 2020 6:15:06 PM IST |
| Content streaming giant Netflix has reported slow growth in its third quarter (July-September period) despite the social distancing times, admitting that it has much work to do in countries like India which are lagging behind in terms of growth for the co ... read.. |
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With Microsoft Cloud, CropData helping Indian farmers earn better |
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New Delhi | Wednesday, 2020 5:15:06 PM IST |
| India has now embarked on a journey to bring AI sensors into the fields and agri-tech startup CropData is helping small farmers improve their yields and sell directly to buyers by utilising new-age technologies like Blockchain and AI-enabled Cloud. ... read.. |
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We pay Big Tech to promote our services: Google on lawsuit |
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New Delhi | Wednesday, 2020 4:45:06 PM IST |
| Stressing that this is not the dial-up 1990s when changing services was slow and difficult and often required to buy and install software with a CD-ROM, Google has vehemently defended its position after the US Department of Justice and 11 state Attorneys ... read.. |
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LG Display partners Walt Disney affiliate on OLED tech |
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Seoul | Wednesday, 2020 4:15:05 PM IST |
| LG Display, a major display panel maker in South Korea, said on Wednesday it has signed a partnership deal with an affiliate of US entertainment conglomerate Walt Disney to better promote its OLED technology. ... read.. |
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