New York, (IANS) : Top US technology businessmen met with President-elect Donald Trump at Trump Tower here on Wednesday in an attempt to align their positions and foster innovation in the country's tech sector. The tech titans met with Trump behind closed doors,...
Twitter ‘bounced’ from tech meet over failed emoji deal
New York, (IANS) : The reason behind Twitter's exclusion from a meeting between tech executives and US President-elect Donald Trump stems from its CEO Jack Dorsey's role in rejecting the anti-Clinton emoji during election campaign, a media report said. Pushing his...
Lenovo K6 Power a huge hit on Flipkart
Bengaluru, (IANS) : Lenovo's K6 Power smartphone has been a hit on Flipkart with over 1,000 units reported to have been sold every minute after the sale went live. The company said 45 minutes after the launch, the smartphone went out of stock. Over 1.3 million...
FreeCharge, IFC join hands to boost women entrepreneurship
New Delhi, (IANS) : Digital payment platform FreeCharge and International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, have come together to help women entrepreneurs in India sell their products on Snapdeal. "By enabling women entrepreneurs online,...
EU clears $26 bn Microsoft-LinkedIn deal
San Francisco, (IANS) : The European Commission has cleared the $26 billion LinkedIn acquisition by Microsoft and the deal will close in coming days, Microsoft said on Wednesday. The tech giant has now obtained all of the regulatory approvals needed to complete the...
Digital payment providers at great hacking risk, need upgraded security: Experts
By Nishant Arora, New Delhi, (IANS) : With more and more people logging into e-wallets or m-wallets for daily payments, the target for hackers has increased exponentially, experts warn, suggesting that upgraded security is the only way to safeguard millions of...
‘Ecommerce to create 1.45 mn direct employment opportunities by 2021’
New Delhi, (IANS) : E-tail and its allied ecosystem like logistics, warehousing, IT, and ITeS is expected to create direct employment for around 1.45 million workforce by 2021, according to a report released on Tuesday. The study, titled "Impact of Ecommerce on...
After ‘disastrous’ Tay, Microsoft to release another chatbot
New York, (IANS) : After a disastrous launch of its previous chatbot Tay, Microsoft is reportedly releasing another artificial intelligence (AI)-powered chatbot named 'Zo' on the social messaging app 'Kik', reports said on Tuesday. According to technology website...
Publishing industry still to overcome shock of demonetisation
By Saket Suman, New Delhi, (IANS) : India's otherwise booming publishing industry is now undergoing a crucial phase as sales have dropped by almost 30-60 per cent since November 8, after the government's decision to invalidate the 500- and 1,000-rupee notes. The...
How Rahul, Congress Twitter accounts may have been hacked
By Nishant Arora, New Delhi, (IANS) : As the news of Congress Party and its Vice President Rahul Gandhi's Twitter accounts being hacked spread like wildfire on Thursday, cyber experts were not surprised as the phenomenon is quite common across the globe where hackers...