Category: Internet

Microsoft on Thursday found itself the target of an EU antitrust investigation over the tying of its chat and video app Teams with its Office product, putting it at risk of a hefty fine. The US tech giant has racked up EUR 2.2 billion (roughly Rs. 20,485 crore) in EU antitrust fines in the previous […]

Fresh off Barbie’s box office success, manufacturer Mattel, which owns the Barbie brand, is reportedly looking to expand on its IP with 14 new feature films, all in different stages of production. As per Variety, they include a surrealistic Barney movie, Lena Dunham’s take on Polly Pocket, a Hot Wheels movie produced by J.J. Abrams, […]

WhatsApp has started testing two new features on Android aimed at helping users stay safe on the messaging service while making it easier to forward messages to a group of contacts. The new security-oriented feature simply surfaces existing tools on WhatsApp to make it easier for users to deal with unwanted contact on the Meta-owned […]

Netflix is restructuring its advertising partnership with Microsoft for its lower-priced ad-supported subscription plan and is also cutting ad prices, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. The streaming company launched the $7(roughly Rs. 560)-per-month plan with commercials last year in 12 markets, including the US, to attract more customers and selected Microsoft as its […]

The Queen’s Gambit Chess has finally gone live on Android and iOS, via Netflix Games. Almost three years since the Anya Taylor-Joy-led miniseries premiered on the platform, developer Ripstone Games — best known for immersive board video games like Poker Club and Chess Ultra — has dedicated this love letter composed of lessons for newbies, […]

A Foxconn subsidiary is in talks with India’s Tamil Nadu state to invest up to $200 million (roughly Rs. 1,638 crore) to build a new plant for electronic components in the southern region, two sources with direct knowledge told Reuters on Wednesday. Brand Cheng, CEO of Foxconn Industrial Internet (FII), and other company representatives last week […]

Amazon.com‘s cloud division has drawn thousands of customers to try out its service vying with Microsoft and Google in a key area of artificial intelligence, an executive told Reuters. The company also announced new AI tools on Wednesday, including a program for building more conversational customer-service agents, technology access from the startup Cohere and a […]

A number of US big tech companies fell on Wednesday as Microsoft‘s results signaled how the high-stakes battle for AI supremacy will cost the tech giants that have seen their shares rally in recent months on hype around the technology. Microsoft’s shares fell 3.6 percent in early trading as the company laid out an aggressive […]

After something as monumental as July’s ‘). Blue Beetle When: August 18Where: Theatres Recent college graduate Jaime Reyes (Xolo Maridueña) is desperately seeking a job for himself and his family, while struggling to find his true purpose in this world. That is, until he unexpectedly comes in possession of a piece of ancient biotechnology, a […]

Wall Street’s top regulator on Wednesday was poised to adopt new rules requiring publicly traded companies to disclose hacking incidents, a measure officials said was being taken to help the investing public contend with the mounting cost and frequency of cyber attacks. The five-member US Securities and Exchange Commission was also set to issue a […]

India’s digital public infrastructure plays on key aspects of scale and technology being centered around public interest, and is a “marvelous model” for what others can do as citizenship becomes a digitalised phenomenon globally, Nick Clegg, President of Global Affairs of Meta, said on Wednesday. Clegg spoke of how Meta and its apps like WhatsApp […]

Earlier this month, the Goods and Services Tax (GST) council implemented a 28 percent tax on online gaming, casinos, and horse racing. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharama, on July 11, announced the new taxation policy, adding that tax would be levied on the full face value of transactions, which included the amount being wagered or deposited […]

Top executives from Foxconn and semiconductor firms Micron and AMD will this week attend a conference in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state, as the government tries to lure investments into India’s nascent chip industry. India wants to establish itself as a semiconductor manufacturing hub, rivaling the likes of Taiwan, and the high demand for […]

Meta Platforms offered to curb the use of competitors’ advertising data for its Facebook Marketplace online classified service in an attempt to settle an EU antitrust investigation but regulators gave it the cold shoulder, people familiar with the matter said. Its offer also included limiting the use of advertising data to develop products that compete […]

Artificial intelligence is expected to pay off big for tech giants including Microsoft and Alphabet someday. But expect deeper investments before gains trickle to the bottom line, the companies said on Tuesday. Microsoft said costs rose sharply as it built new data centers to support AI and that capital expenditures will continue to rise as […]

Threads has rolled out a new Following tab on iOS and Android that allows users to see posts from users they have followed on the platform. Meta’s text-based microblogging platform that was launched as an alternative to Twitter — recently rebranded by Elon Musk to ‘X’ — will now allow users to see posts on the platform […]

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is finalizing its long-awaited antitrust lawsuit against Amazon in a move that could ultimately break up parts of the company, Politico reported on Tuesday. The wide-ranging lawsuit is expected as soon as August and will likely challenge a host of Amazon’s business practices, the report said, citing people with […]

France’s antitrust watchdog said on Tuesday it had issued a statement of objection against Apple, citing concerns the US technology company could have breached regulations linked to the use of iPhone user data for advertising purposes. The watchdog is concerned Apple might “abuse its dominant position by implementing discriminatory, non-objective and non-transparent conditions for the […]

Microsoft on Tuesday laid out an aggressive spending plan to meet demand for its new artificial intelligence services after surpassing Wall Street estimates for fiscal fourth-quarter revenue and profit. Costs rose sharply as Microsoft built new data centers to support AI, and Chief Financial Officer Amy Hood said on a conference call with analysts the […]

Spotify Technology on Tuesday reported second-quarter results that comfortably beat expectations for both monthly active users and subscribers, and forecast the number of listeners each month would reach 572 million next quarter. After laying out plans last year to get 1 billion users by 2030 and to reach $100 billion (roughly Rs. 8,18,900 crore) in revenue annually, Spotify […]

Driven by a surge in demand for artificial intelligence, Taiwanese chip maker TSMC plans to invest nearly $2.87 billion (roughly Rs. 23,500 crore) in an advanced packaging facility in northern Taiwan, the company said on Tuesday. “To meet market needs, TSMC is planning to establish an advanced packaging fab in the Tongluo Science Park,” the company said […]

TikTok, the social platform known for its addictive video content, announced Monday that it will offer text-only posts, becoming the latest tech giant to offer an alternative to embattled Twitter. The text posts on TikTok will most closely resemble similar offerings on Instagram, which earlier this month also launched a challenge to Twitter — which […]

Choona, the Lucknow-set heist comedy series, just got a trailer. Netflix dropped some new footage for its Jimmy Shergill-led (A Wednesday) series, which traces a revenge drama targeting a corrupt and highly-superstitious politician Shukla, as an unlikely group of six bands together to take his empire down. Much of the narrative’s direction pivots around astrology […]

Billionaire Elon Musk’s decision to rebrand Twitter as X could be complicated legally: companies including Meta and Microsoft already have intellectual property rights to the same letter. X is so widely used and cited in trademarks that it is a candidate for legal challenges – and the company formerly known as Twitter could face its […]

Netflix has launched a new personalised tab called ‘My Netflix‘ to help mobile users quickly find and stream titles they previously interacted with. Dubbed a ‘one-stop shop tailored to you’, the feature acts as a shortcut or a dedicated space composed of any downloads, web series, or films that you gave a thumbs up to, […]

Adobe’s $20 billion (roughly Rs. 1,63,400 crore) bid for cloud-based designer platform Figma will face a full-scale EU antitrust investigation following EU regulators’ preliminary review, people familiar with the matter said on Monday. The move underscores antitrust watchdogs’ wariness of tech deals where bigger companies may acquire rival start-ups to shut them down. An Adobe spokesperson declined […]

As many as 14,007 cyber fraud cases were registered in 2021, Parliament was informed on Monday.  Quoting National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data, Minister of State for Finance Bhagwat Karad said “total number of cyber fraud cases which includes…frauds committed through online apps is 14,007 in 2021 (latest published data pertains to the year 2021).” […]

Alphabet‘s Google violated a software developer’s patent rights with its remote-streaming technology and must pay $338.7 million (nearly Rs. 2,770 crore) in damages, a federal jury in Waco, Texas decided on Friday. The jury found that Google’s Chromecast and other devices infringe patents owned by Touchstream Technologies related to streaming videos from one screen to […]

Samsung Wallet has been updated with support for several new features in India. Owners of the company’s Samsung Galaxy smartphones will now be able to store official documents securely using the Samsung Wallet app. They will also be able to recharge and manage their FASTag funds from within the Wallet app. The update will make […]

Threads, Meta Platform’s broadside to Twitter, is seen by some advertisers as less contentious and more predictable than Elon Musk’s platform, and analysts say it could lure away marketing budgets – eventually. Launched on July 5, Threads became the fastest-growing social media platform to hit 100 million users, the apparent first serious threat to the […]