Rome, (IANS) : Italian authorities on Friday opened an investigation against US online retailing giant Amazon for allegedly evading 130 million euros ($141 million) in taxes between 2011-2015. The investigation is at least the third in Italy against a big US digital...
New Delhi/ Seattle, (IANS) : Banking on the e-commerce proliferation in India, Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos assured people that the company will keep investing in technology and infrastructure in the country. "We're grateful that customers are responding --...
New Delhi, (IANS) : Facebook-owned photo and video sharing app Instagram now has more than 700 million users, with the last 100 million joining the platform in just four months. "We're thrilled to announce that our community has grown to more than 700 million...
By Nishant Arora, New Delhi, (IANS) : Founded in 2004, Facebook -- on track to hit two billion active monthly users this year -- is now the fifth-largest US firm by market capitalisation (exceeding $400 billion) and owns the world's most popular apps: WhatsApp,...
London :(IANS) Online shoppers in Britain spend more per household than consumers in any other country, the UK Cards Association said in a report. UK households spent the equivalent of $5,900 using payment cards online in 2015, the BBC quoted the report as saying on...
San Francisco, (IANS) : Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak believes that Apple, Google and Facebook will be bigger in 2075 and dominate the world. "Apple will be around a long time, like IBM (which was founded in 1911)," USA Today quoted Wozniak as saying on Sunday. "Look...
By Arul Louis, United Nations, (IANS) : In the digital age the world has to follow Dalit icon B.R. Ambedkar's call for empowering the marginalised and the poor by ensuring that no one is left behind in reaping the benefits of information and communication technologies...
New Delhi, (IANS) : There has been nearly 23-fold increase in the number of digital payments since the November 8 demonetisation, the government said on Thursday. The transactions using various digital payment modes went up to 63.80 lakh with a total transaction value...
New Delhi, (IANS) : Union Science and Technology Minister Harsh Vardhan on Monday launched a new web portal -- Nakshe Portal -- providing free download of Survey of India's topographic maps of the entire country in PDF format to Indian citizens. The topographic maps...
Bangalore, (IANS) : India's leading e-tailer Flipkart on Monday announced raising $1.4 billion (Rs.9,042 crore) from Microsoft, eBay and Chinese investment firm Tencent. "The latest funding round, at a post-transaction valuation of $11.6 billion (Rs.74,885 crore), is...