A nine-year-old Indian-origin girl anvitha vijay has earned the distinction of being the youngest app developer at Apples annual developer conference with her apps for children and she now dreams of meeting the tech giants CEO Tim Cook. Anvitha Vijay from Australia is the youngest attendee at WWDC 2016 in San Francisco and has already […]
Broadcaster Sony Pictures Networks India (SPN) has mopped up Rs 1,200 crore in advertising revenue from Indian Premier Leagues (IPL) ninth season, a growth of 20 per cent over last year. It had clocked an advertising revenue of Rs 1,000 crore from IPL 8. “We have had a 20 per cent growth in revenue. This […]
Tony Fadell, a well-known Silicon Valley executive who was once expected to play a central role in Alphabet’s hardware efforts, has stepped down as chief executive of the search giant’s Nest unit, the company said. Fadell will remain an adviser to Alphabet and Google co-founder Larry Page. He will be replaced at Nest, which makes […]
You may be wasting your time fighting those extra kilos with fitness apps as according to a recent study, many of them lack certified content-expertise or evidence of effectiveness. Overweight and obese people are turning to a multitude of smartphone apps to help them lose weight, but this study said that only 17 (0.5 percent) […]
Cloud-based software maker Salesforce.com Inc said it would buy Demandware Inc, whose software is used by businesses to run e-commerce websites, for about $2.8 billion. The deal will help Salesforce open a new front as it looks to take away more market share from traditional software providers such as Oracle Corp and SAP AG, both […]
Telecom regulator Trai today issued pre-consultation paper on net neutrality, a topic that had kicked up dust earlier this year over platforms like Facebooks Free Basics and Airtel Zero as well as attempts to charge certain Internet services, including calls. Seeking to put in place an overall framework for Internet usage in the country, Telecom […]
Government is working on a mobile app which will give access to over 1,000 services from Centre and state governments and would be launched by December 2016, Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said today. “We are going to launch a common mobile. In this app we will give services of central government, state government and […]
Having made a string of technology investments in India, Japanese telecom and Internet giant SoftBank has said its investments in the country will top USD 10 billion in 5-10 years. SoftBank, which owns one of Japans biggest mobile carriers and a controlling stake in US-based Sprint Corp, will make its first USD 350 million investment […]
The NDA government led by Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) came into power in May 2014, pioneering a new wave in digital governance. As the Prime Minister marks two years in office today, we look back at how his vision of “minimum government, maximum governance” has been implemented via Twitter – from the Prime Minister himself to […]
A court in Shanghai has ordered Chinese search engine Baidu to pay 3.23 million yuan (USD 490,000) to a Shanghai company for unfair competition. In April, Shanghai Hantao Information Consultancy Co. Ltd, operator of Dianping.com, sued Baidu and another online company Jietusoft, for copying comments and business information from Dianping.com onto Baidu’s online applications and […]
Nikesh Arora, a Ex-Googler and the president and COO of SoftBank Group, received heafty pay check of $73 million (8.04 billion yen) in 2016. Arora’s compensation includes $14.2 million (1.56 billion) paid by other SoftBank units. After Google, Arora had joined SoftBank as its vice-chairman and CEO of SB Group US (previously SoftBank Internet and Media […]
U.S. regulators are investigating Alibaba Group Holding Ltd’s accounting practices to determine whether they violated federal laws, the Chinese e-commerce giant said, sending its shares tumbling nearly 7 percent on Wednesday. Alibaba said the Securities and Exchange Commission launched the investigation earlier this year. Questions about its growth rate and its relations with affiliated companies […]