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Facebook Stop News Headline changes from Advertisers
17Sep By PriyankaNo Comments
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Facebook Stop News Headline changes from Advertisers

Facebook is working to stop advertisers from changing headlines in links to news stories after concerns raised by a British political party's altering of one such link. The leading social network confirmed the internal effort in the face of concerns over a BBC headline altered in an ad to evidently change the tone of an article about British government spending on education. "We are working to put safeguards in place by the end of the year to ensure publishers have control over the way their headlines appear in advertisements," Facebook said in response to an AFP inquiry. The new policy came over complaints that advertisers might be able to deceptively modify the content in news stories shared on the huge social network. A recent Conservative Party Facebook ad "seems to have al...
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Disney CEO Resigns from Apple’s board of directors
16Sep By AdityaNo Comments
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Disney CEO Resigns from Apple’s board of directors

SAN FRANCISCO, 16th Sept 2019- Disney CEO Bob Iger has resigned from Apple's board of directors as the two companies are preparing to launch online streaming services. According to an Apple to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Iger quit on September 10, the day Apple announced price and release date of its streaming service. "I have the utmost respect for Tim Cook, his team at Apple and for my fellow board members," Iger said in a statement, published by The Hollywood Reporter. "Apple is one of the world's most admired companies, known for the quality and integrity of its products and people, and I am forever grateful to have served as a member of the company's board," he said. Iger first joined Apple's board in 2011, a month after the death of Apple CEO Steve ...
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s father died
13Sep By Press Trust of IndiaNo Comments
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s father died

13th Sept 2019- Former bureaucrat of India & father of Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, B N Yugandhar died today. He was 82. Yugandhar had served in the Prime Ministers Office during late PV Narasimha Raos regime and also as director of Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration at Mussorie. He died in the afternoon, sources close to him said. Yugandhar had not been keeping well for some time now, they said. His wife predeceased him and Satya Nadella is their only child, the sources said. Yugandhar, a 1962 batch IAS officer, had also served as secretary in Union Rural Development Ministry. As a member of the erstwhile Planning Commission, he was instrumental in getting an entire chapter on disability issues included in the Plan, official sources said. Condolin...
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Alibaba Founder Jack Ma Steps Down
10Sep By NitishNo Comments
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Alibaba Founder Jack Ma Steps Down

10th Spet, 2019- Jack Ma, who founded Alibaba Group, the world's biggest e-commerce company, is stepping down as chairman at a time when the rapidly changing industry faces uncertainty amid a US-Chinese trade war. Ma stepped down Tuesday as part of a succession announced a year earlier. He will stay on as a member of the Alibaba Partnership, a group of 36 people with the right to nominate a majority of the company's board of directors. Ma, 55, founded Alibaba in 1999 to connect Chinese exporters to American retailers. The company has shifted its focus to serving China's growing consumer market. Domestic businesses accounted for 66 per cent of its USD 16.7 billion in revenue in the quarter ending in June.
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Google Fined $170 mn for Sharing Kids YouTube Channel Data
9Sep By AdityaNo Comments
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Google Fined $170 mn for Sharing Kids YouTube Channel Data

Google agreed to pay USD 170 million to settle charges that it illegally collected and shared data from children on its YouTube video service, deal critics said was too soft on the internet giant. The settlement with the Federal Trade Commission and the New York State Attorney General is the largest amount in a case involving the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, a 1998 federal law, officials said. Officials said YouTube violated the law that requires child-directed websites and online services to provide notice of their information practices and obtain parental consent prior to collecting personal information from children under 13. The company marketed itself as a destination for children and benefitted by selling advertising to toymakers and others seeking to connect wi...
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How to Fix Your Cracked iPhone Screen? Apple has Solution for it
30Aug By AdityaNo Comments
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How to Fix Your Cracked iPhone Screen? Apple has Solution for it

30 August, 2019- Apple is loosening its grip on how its products are repaired to give customers more options for fixing cracked screens and other defects on their older iPhones. Under the new policy announced Thursday, Apple will begin selling its tools and parts to more independent phone-repair shops in the U.S. Apple will expand that to other countries later. Repairs at these shops, though, will be limited to iPhones already out of warranty. IPhones still under warranty must still be taken to an Apple store or one of more than 5,000 service providers that the company already has authorized worldwide. That includes all Best Buy stores in the U.S. Those who have other devices, such as the Apple Watch and Mac computer, or an iPhone requiring more complicated repairs will also have to ...
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Camscanner Affected With Malware, 100 Million Users Data Compromised
29Aug By AnkitaNo Comments
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Camscanner Affected With Malware, 100 Million Users Data Compromised

Kaspersky researchers recently found malware in an app called CamScanner, a phone-based PDF creator that includes OCR (optical character recognition) and has more than 100 million downloads in Google Play. The app also called by slightly different names such as CamScanner Phone PDF Creator and CamScanner-Scanner to scan PDFs. Official app stores such as Google Play are usually considered a safe haven for downloading software. Unfortunately, nothing is 100% safe, and from time to time malware distributors manage to sneak their apps into Google Play. The problem is that even such a powerful company as Google can’t thoroughly check millions of apps. Keep in mind that most of the apps are updated regularly, so Google Play moderators’ jobs are never done. CamScanner was actua...
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Hero MotoCorp denies investing in Blu Smart Mobility
29Aug By NitishNo Comments
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Hero MotoCorp denies investing in Blu Smart Mobility

India's largest two-wheeler maker Hero MotoCorp Ltd on August 19 denied that it has participated in the funding round of Blu Smart Mobility, while threatening to take legal action against e-mobility start-up. Last week, Blu Smart Mobility had claimed that it had raised a $2.2 million in an angel round from multiple investors, led by JITO Angel Network. The start-up had said "apart from JITO Angel Network, other funds who participated in the Angel round included Hero Motocorp, MayField Fund and Centrum, Micromax and few individual investors among others". Denying its investment in the Blu Smart Mobility, Hero MotoCorp said the company "strongly denies any such participation and/or any investment made in Blu Smart Mobility". Further, it is clarified that Hero MotoCorp neither rel...
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Microsoft Co-founder Led Vulcan Capital Opened its First International Office in Singapore
27Aug By PriyankaNo Comments
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Microsoft Co-founder Led Vulcan Capital Opened its First International Office in Singapore

Vulcan Capital, the multi-billion-dollar investment arm of the late Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Paul G. Allen, opened its first international office in Singapore. In the initial phase, Vulcan Capital will deploy US $100 million into venture opportunities across Southeast Asia, making it one of the largest early stage platforms of its kind to be established in the region. Formed in 2003, Vulcan Capital takes an entrepreneur-friendly approach and invests in both private and public companies with a long-term investment horizon. The company, now including its Singapore office, is unique in that investment returns generated by Vulcan Capital will go towards funding the development of globally focused philanthropic initiatives, delivered through Vulcan and its many partners. Th...
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Deliveroo Stops Operation in Germany, Planning to Exit
12Aug By AdityaNo Comments
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Deliveroo Stops Operation in Germany, Planning to Exit

Online food delivery service Deliveroo says it's pulling out of Germany to concentrate on other markets, but is holding out the possibility of returning at a later date. London-based Deliveroo said it will shut down its service in Europe's biggest economy on Aug 16. In an email sent to customers, the company said its goal is "to create the world's best food delivery service" and "offering customers, drivers, and restaurants an outstanding service." It added that "where we cannot provide this on the level that we expect and that you deserve, we do not operate."  Deliveroo didn't immediately respond to a request seeking further details. Like other food delivery services, the company has been criticized in Germany and elsewhere for its treatment of its drivers and cyclists. ...
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