Facebook owned messaging service WhatsApp has announced that its services would be discontinued on BlackBerry and Nokia devices by 2017. WhatsApp’s announcement also includes Nokia’s low-end S40 and S60 Symbian platforms, as well as the older Android 2.2 and Windows Phone 7.1 operating systems, the Verge reported. Based in Mountain View, California, WhatsApp was acquired […]
A day after some victims of theSan Bernardino shooting said that they would file a legal brief in support of the U.S. Government’s attempt to force Apple Inc. to unlock the encrypted iPhone owned by one of the shooters, technology giant Microsoft came out in support of the victims and asked Apple Inc. to unlock […]
Less than 2% of the Indians know where to invest, and the rest need guidance and advisory support to plan their financials. While Dinesh Rohira was working at Microsoft, he had conceptualized and delivered an online platform for distribution of all investment products. “This triggered the idea of financial planning to be provided via a […]
Ricult is an endeavor by a US-based start-up founded by 4 MIT and 1 Harvard graduates. They help smallholder farmers (< 10 acres holding) reduce information asymmetry and work their way out of poverty to become more impactful economic actors. At the heart of their concept is a virtual marketplace which allows farmers to procure […]
Chinese image licensing company Visual China Group said it acquired on Friday the image division and content licensing unit of photo library Corbis Entertainment, owned by Microsoft Corp’s co-founder Bill Gates. The company signed another deal with media service provider Getty Images to distribute Corbis’ images and content to customers, thus bringing in a major […]
Beijing, Jan 9 (PTI) – China’s country code domain ‘.cn’ has become the world’s most commonly used in the internet with 16.36 million users, surpassing Germany’s ‘.de’ domain. According to the data released yesterday by the China Internet Network Information Centre (CNNIC), which manages the domain, ‘.cn’ had 16.36 million users by the end of 2015. The […]
Senior White House officials and U.S. intelligence and law enforcement figures will meet with Silicon Valley executives on Friday to discuss how to counter the use of social media by militant groups, sources familiar with the meeting said on Thursday. In an escalation of pressure on technology firms to do more to combat online propaganda […]
In a significant development today, babajob.com, India’s largest online job marketplace for the informal sector, was identified as a member of the SME India Council set up by Facebook in Asia-Pacific today. Facebook, which has over two million Indian small and medium businesses (SMBs) on its platform, has set up a SME Council to help small ventures […]
It’s late morning on a Thursday in September, and Slack Technologies CEO Stewart Butterfield has convened a meeting with his design and product heads in the company’s low-key San Francisco headquarters. On the agenda is the question that’s been most on Butterfield’s mind lately: how his $US2.8 billion ($3.9 billion) start-up, which makes business-collaboration software, […]
Talkoot is a real-time social platform for investors and traders. The venture aims to make financial markets fun, open and accessible to everyone in the country. Talkoot creates a personalized financial feed for each user based on the stocks and people they follow. Talkoot algorithms constantly measure performance of each idea shared on the platform […]
Reuters | 20 November 2015, 6:29 PM IST Google Inc, a unit of Alphabet Inc, said it appointed VMware Inc co-founder and industry veteran Diane Greene to run its cloud business, as CEO Sundar Pichai pushes ahead with efforts to gain share in the fast-growing market. Pichai has made selling cloud storage space to […]
Apple Inc said its iPad Pro will be available to order online on Wednesday and arrive ga naar at stores later this week. The 12.9 inch-screen tablet, which starts at $799 but costs more than $1,000 if buyers also want a keyboard and an optional stylus, will be available in more than 40 countries, including […]