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Most Apps Share Your Data With Google, Facebook: Study

13Jun By Press Trust of IndiaNo Comments

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Most Apps Share Your Data With Google, Facebook: Study

More than 70 per cent of smartphone apps are reporting personal data to third-party companies like Google and Facebook, a new study has warned. When people install a new smartphone app, it asks for the users permission before accessing personal information. Some of the information these apps collect are necessary for them to work properly. However, once an app has permission to collect that information, it can share your data with anyone the developer wants to letting third-party companies track where you are, how fast you are moving and what you are doing, researchers said. Researchers from the IMDEA Networks Institute in Spain wanted to know how much data could potentially be collected without users knowledge, and to give users more control over their data. "To get a pictu...

Zoho Looking to Hire 4,000 People in 3-4 Years

Cloud services firm Zoho plans to double its headcount to 8,000 people over the next 3-4 years as it introduces new solutions and expands focus on small and medium businesses (SMBs). The company, which currently has some 4,000 people on its payroll, has development centres in Chennai and Tenkasi (Tamil Nadu) which work on products like customer relationship management (CRM) and enterprise e-mail solutions. "We are looking at a headcount of 8,000 in the next 3-4 years. We are looking at entering newer segments like payroll management. All our solutions are built in India and that is how it will continue to be," Zoho Chief Operating Officer Manikandan Vembu said. While he declined to disclose the revenue numbers, Vembu said about 45 percent of the company's topline comes from the US while ...

Meet Anvitha Vijay – A 9 Year Old Girl and Youngest Attendee at Apples Developer Conference

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 built several apps for iPhone and iPad, a report in Fortune said. Anvitha Vijay spent a year watching free coding tutorials on YouTube and the web, and learned how to program. "Coding was so challenging. But Im so glad I stuck with it," she said. Anvitha Vijay, who has been developing apps about empowering children, hopes to meet Cook during the conference. "Its my dream to go to WWDC and meet Tim Cok," she said. Vijay is attending WWDC as p...