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Facebook Again Failed to Protect Data of 3 Mn Users

Barely two months after the Cambridge Analytica data scandal, Facebook is the subject of another data controversy as a third-party app in the form of a personality quiz, was able to collect and distribute sensitive Facebook data from over 3 million people. The data contained Facebook users’ answers for the personality trait test, and while […]

5 Ways in Which Small Businesses can Survive amidst Technological Revolution

Are you a small business owner facing a crisis on the economic front? Has your business fallen on hard times and things seem unresolvable? Running a business is never a cakewalk, but sometimes it gets tough to make both ends meet. In the dynamic age of technology that is driven by gadgets and everything going […]

The Dark Truth Behind Whatsapp Founders Leaving Facebook

Yesterday we published a breaking news stating that billionaire and chief executive of Whatsapp, Jan Koum, was planning to leave the parent company, Facebook. Whatsapp’s Last Remaining Co-Founder Exits Facebook. While the departure seemed friendly between the Chief Executive of Whatsapp, Jan Koum, and Chief Executive of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg but the departure motives suggest […]

Jack Ma’s Ant Financial to Raise $9B Ahead of IPO, Become World’s Biggest Unicorn

Chinese billionaire Jack Ma’s financial firm is all set to make it to the world’s biggest companies. Alibaba Group Holding Ltd’s derivate company, Ants Financial Group is preparing to raise $9 billion which is much above its expected IPO in a private funding round as per the sources. Being no stranger to funding, the company […]

Funding Facebook : From Harvard Dorm Room to $500 Bn Company

What started in a dorm room of Harvard University has totally changed the outlook of people all across the world on how they socialize. We are talking about none other than Facebook or “TheFacebook” as it was called back then! Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg and his college roommate and fellow Harvard University student […]

Expense Management Platform Happay Raises Funding From Sequoia And Others

The expense management software for enterprises, Happay has raised Rs 1.60 crore ($250,000) in a fresh round of funding, a report by TechCircle confirms. The IT services company raised a total of $10 million (Rs 65.13 crore) in the round led by existing investor Sequoia Capital. Happay which was found in 2012 in Bangalore, Karnataka raised the same […]

SoftBank In Talks To Invest $500M In Paytm Mall

After investing in Indian e-commerce majors Flipkart and Snapdeal, Japanese multinational conglomerate SoftBank Group is now set to invest in another Indian e-commerce space Paytm Mall. It is estimated that Paytm Mall may receive a funding around $500-600 millions in a fresh round. As per the reports, SoftBank will put around $300 million into the […]

India’s Messenger App Hike Has Revenue Issues

[dropcap]A[/dropcap]fter Flipkart, Ola and Paytm, another potential Indian Unicorn Hike, the Indian chat messenger is seeing some hard days! It is not generating any revenue! Its latest filings with RoC shows that the five year old company is right back where it started; as per its March 2017 reports. Once valued at $1.4 billion, the […]

Twitter Revokes Check Marks From Several White Supremacists

[dropcap]T[/dropcap]witter has announced that it has updated its authentication process for verifying its accounts and awarding blue check mark, in a series of tweets. In these tweets Twitter acknowledged that its verification comes across as endorsement, and that the social network’s treatment of verification has led to this, and now they will be changing the way […]

Amazon Scraps Bundled Video Service – Sources

[dropcap]A[/dropcap]mazon.com Inc has scrapped plans to launch an online streaming service bundling popular U.S. broadcast and cable networks because it believes it cannot make enough money on such a service, people familiar with the matter told Reuters. The world’s largest online retailer has also been unable to convince key broadcast and basic cable networks to […]

TripAdvisor To Mark Hotels On Website Where Sexual or Any Violent Incident Took Place

[dropcap]T[/dropcap]ripAdvisor will now mark the hotels where cases of violent incident like sexual assault or rape have been reported, informing the users before they book. The travel review and booking site earlier hit the news for removing a review about Iberosar Paraiso Maya, which described a rape done by security guard at a Mexican Resort. […]

Indian Paper Packaging Segment Can Get A Lot From Ecommerce

The rapid growth of the Indian e-commerce sector, which is expected to become $228 billion big by 2030, will help the country’s paper packaging segment expand, industry executives said today. E-commerce for manufacturing companies is changing the way companies do business with other companies, including paper and pulp mills, with new trends being added in […]