New Delhi : Riding on the 'Internet Saathi' programme -- a digital literacy initiative aimed at empowering women in rural India -- Google India on Wednesday announced that it has now reached 100,000 villages in the country. Launched as a pilot in Rajasthan in July...
New Delhi : In a bid to grab a pie of the growing mobile messaging industry, leading digital wallet company Paytm is reportedly planning to start its own messaging service like Facebook-owned WhatsApp. According to a report in Wall Street Journal on Tuesday, "the...
San Francisco : To build out a more elaborate personal assistant for the Messenger users, Facebook has acquired an artificial intelligence (AI) startup Ozlo that specialises in understanding text-based conversations. The four-year-old start-up claims that its virtual...
By Nishant Arora, New Delhi : Social networking platforms have dramatically changed the way we communicate. The next wave is here in enterprise social networks to help employees, partners, buyers/sellers and other stakeholders collaborate in real-time, brainstorm,...
San Francisco : If you want your tweets to appear in the timelines of strangers, Twitter is offering testing a plan to automatically promote your tweets, for which you will have to pay $99 month. However, this subscription plan is not offered to all users, but only...
New Delhi : Axis Bank has entered into an agreement with Jasper Infotech Private Limited to acquire 100 per cent stake in its subsidiaries like FreeCharge Payment Technologies Private Limited and Accelyst Solutions Private Limited, which together constitute the...
San Francisco : Clocking over two billion monthly active users (MAUs), Facebook has posted a net income of $3.89 billion in second quarter of 2017 -- up 71 per cent from the same quarter last year. Riding on increased mobile video ad sales, Facebook stocks hit record...
San Francisco : Twitter is reportedly mulling over closing down SnappyTV that it acquired in 2014 for quickly clipping, editing and sharing live video clips on its platform. According to a report in TechCrunch on Tuesday, Twitter plans to bring several of SnappyTV's...
San Francisco : In its battle against pirated content, Facebook has acquired a US-based startup Source3 to help it weed out pirated videos and other content that users share without permission. The startup builds technology to detect intellectual property that has...
San Francisco : In an application filed with the US Patent and Trademark Office, Facebook is exploring the development of a 'modular electromechanical device' (read smartphone) which will allow users to add different components onto a device. The modular device can...