San Francisco, (IANS) : Snap Inc, the parent company of popular photo-sharing app Snapchat, has acquired Los Angeles-based small drone manufacturer Ctrl Me Robotics for nearly $1 million. According to a report in Buzzfeed on Sunday, Snap's interest in drone...
New York, (IANS) : Fuelled by Snapchat Lenses and Facebook Stories, augmented reality is gaining fast traction in the US, a new report from market research firm eMarketer reveals. In 2017, 40 million people in the US will engage with some form of augmented reality...
New York, (IANS) : Aiming to bet big in live video streaming, micro-blogging website Twitter has hired Todd Swidler as Global Head of Live Business. Swidler was earlier associated with Bloomberg as the Global Head of Video Distribution and Partnerships. "Twitter is...
New Delhi, (IANS) : Fintech company Paytm on Tuesday unveiled its payments bank becoming the first one to offer cashback on deposits. It aims to become the preferred bank for 500 million Indians by 2020. Customers will also be offered zero charge on all online...
New York, (IANS) : Taking on Twitter and Amazon-owned Twitch when it comes to livestreaming sport events, Facebook has now announced a partnership with global esports company ESL to bring over 5,550 hours of esports events and other original content to its platforms....
New York, (IANS) : Cab-hailing app Uber has warned an engineer who allegedly stole trade secrets and self-driving car technology from Google parent company Alphabet's unit Waymo to comply with court orders or risk being fired. Uber issued a warning letter to Anthony...
San Francisco, (IANS) : Facebook is rolling out new option "Order Food" to a select users in the US which will let them order food directly from its app, without having to open the restaurants's dedicated app or website. Represented by a hamburger icon, the option...
New Delhi, (IANS) : E-commerce companies Flipkart and Amazon, for the second year in a row topped LinkedIn India's top companies list 2017, a statement said here on Thursday. The professional network site on the Internet said the list is fuelled by exclusive LinkedIn...
New Delhi, (IANS) : Fintech company Paytm on Wednesday said it will finally launch the operations of its payments bank on May 23. "We are in the process of launching Paytm Payments Bank on May 23. We recently received approval from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) for...
By Aditya Baruah, Guwahati, (IANS) : Sarala Baishya, now in her late 50s, had always been dependent on her husband or sons and daughters for any kind of information. Be it the patriarchal nature of the society, ignorance or lack of education, the activities of Sarala...