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26Aug By NitishNo Comments

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Apple launched News Partner Program to support Journalism

CUPERTINO, Calif., 26th Aug 2021-- Apple introduced the News Partner Program to expand Apple’s work with and support for journalism. The News Partner Program aims to ensure Apple News customers maintain access to trusted news and information from many of the world’s top publishers. The News Partner Program is designed for subscription news publications that provide their content to Apple News in Apple News Format (ANF). ANF enables an exceptional reading experience on Apple News and unlocks the full benefit of the platform for publishers, and empowers publishers to create brand-forward stories, immersive issues, and audio stories, with designs that scale seamlessly across Apple devices. ANF also supports advertising, and publishers keep 100 percent of the revenue from advertising they s...

19Feb By AnkitaNo Comments

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Facebook blocks News Sharing in Australia

Canberra, Feb 19th, 2021: Social media giant Facebook blocked Australians from sharing news on its social media after the Australian govt move to make a law to pay for news. A move by facebook criticized by a Australian minister who called it “an assault on a sovereign nation” and abuse of power. Australia's government condemned the decision, which also prevented some government communications, including messages about emergency services, as well as some commercial pages. The digital platforms fear that what's happening in Australia will become an expensive precedent that larger countries will follow. Facebook took drastic action because the House of Representatives passed legislation that would make Facebook and Google pay for Australian journalism, said Treasurer Josh Frydenbe...

4Mar By AdityaNo Comments

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Australia’s National Newswire to Close

Australia's only national newswire will close after 85 years in operation, with staff told Tuesday their jobs will come to an end in June. Australian Associated Press' closure was announced at a staff meeting in the company's headquarters in Sydney, with chief executive Bruce Davidson describing it as a sad day. "AAP has been a critical part of journalism in Australia since 1935, and it is tragic that it will come to an end," Davidson said. The newswire will close at the end of June while its subediting business Pagemasters is set to close at the end of August. In a statement, the company's closure was attributed to the "unprecedented impact" of digital platforms taking content and distributing it for free. "We have reached the point where it is no longer viable to continue,...

29Jan By NitishNo Comments

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BBC to Cut 450 Newsroom Jobs

BBC will axe 450 newsroom jobs as part of plans to adapt "to changing audience needs" and meet its savings target, the broadcaster announced on Wednesday. "The BBC has to face up to the changing way audiences are using us," Fran Unsworth, director of news and current affairs, said in a statement. "We have to adapt and ensure we continue to be the world's most trusted news organisation, but crucially, one which is also relevant for the people we are not currently reaching," she added. The British Broadcasting Corporation, which has an 80 million pounds ($104 million, 95 million euro) savings target, said it was spending too much on "traditional linear broadcasting and not enough on digital". The "Victoria Derbyshire" morning show will be axed, with other job losses coming from a...

9Aug By PriyankaNo Comments

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Facebook Offering Millions for News Publishing

Facebook is reportedly in talks with news publishers to offer "millions of dollars" for the rights to publish their material on its site. The move follows years of criticism over its growing monopolization of online advertising to the detriment of the struggling news industry. The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday that Facebook representatives had told news executives that they'd pay as much as USD 3 million a year to license stories, headlines, and other material. Facebook declined to comment but confirmed that the company is working on launching a "news tab" for its service this fall. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg began talking about a news section on the service in April. A person familiar with the matter confirmed that Facebook has approached News Corp. about paying to lic...

Inshorts Launches AI Based News Summarization on its App

11Jun By Gauri SinghNo Comments

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Inshorts Launches AI Based News Summarization on its App

The online news aggregator application called Inshorts has inaugurated artificial intelligence (AI) based information summarization on its platform. Inshorts is a news app that chooses and picks latest and best news from various national and international sources and summarises them to present in a short and crisp 60 words or less format. The attribute of the app is built on Rapid60 algorithm which automatically summarizes a full-length news article to sixty words article brief along with a headline and a card image as well. In this regard, the words of Azhar Iqubal, CEO of Inshorts were that the human curation comes with a restriction on how many numbers of articles they can produce, and with this idea, they plan to increase the number of articles being published on its platform to ...

Alibaba Proposes to invest $500 Mn in Dailyhunt

24Feb By Sabhyata AgarwalNo Comments

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Alibaba Proposes to invest $500 Mn in Dailyhunt

The multinational e-commerce giant Alibaba is planning to buy a minority stake of upto $500 million in Dailyhunt (formerly known as Newshunt), an online news providing platform said two people close to the development reported livemint. According to the duo, Alibaba has already offered a deal closing at $500 million to Dailyhunt but the news aggregator is looking for more investors, other than Alibaba. “The talks are, however, not yet conclusive as Dailyhunt is also looking for other funding options apart from Alibaba,” said one of the person aware of the matter, on the request of staying anonymous. The other person asking for the same quoted, “The deal will be a minority stake sale in which Alibaba is looking to acquire anywhere between 10% to 12%, depending upon the final negotiat...

How Indian Youth is Frying in The Politicians ‘Pakoda Politics’

9Feb By Sabhyata AgarwalNo Comments

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How Indian Youth is Frying in The Politicians ‘Pakoda Politics’

"If a person sells 'pakodas' and takes home Rs 200 every evening, will it be considered employment or not?", PM Modi said in an interview on Zee News. The statement of the PM created quite a buzz in the opposition parties as what he said implied that even selling Pakodas is a job. In the aftermath, following such statement, politicians from all around India started a debate on social platforms about how can Modi ji advice the jobless, especially youth, to sell Pakodas. Not ony this, citizens majorily youth started to sell pakodas objectifying the promises of the government. The Timeline following the Interview(Feb 19)- January 29 On a question asked about employment in India, PM Narendra Modi resorted to a fact that a person selling chai and pakoda, who earns Rs 200 in order to feed...

ScoopWhoop In Trouble- How India’s Viral Content Company Lost Its Track

20Jan By RishabhNo Comments

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ScoopWhoop In Trouble- How India’s Viral Content Company Lost Its Track

Disclaimer: The facts and incidents mentioned in the story have been already published by other media companies. We are just distributing the content supplied by third parties or subscribers. . Neither the Company nor any third-party provider of information guarantees the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any content, nor its merchantability or fitness for any particular purpose. We don't intend to provide any opinion on the matter. The Launch It was just another evening in a Mayur Vihar's small apartment of Rishi Pratim Mukherjee. He was hanging out with two co-workers, Sriparna Tikekar and Sattvik Mishra from WebChutney, an Indian webdesign and online marketing company. A little drunk and a discussion over "listicles" the term coined because of the popular US-based internet co...

Germany Bans Children’s Smartwatches For Security Issues, A Greater Concern

18Nov By RishabhNo Comments

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Germany Bans Children’s Smartwatches For Security Issues, A Greater Concern

German telecom regulator Federal Network Agency (Bundesnetzagentur) has banned the sale of smartwatches that aim at children, accusing them of being spy devices. These smartphone apps may allow privacy invasion, which is one of the greatest threat to the world right now. People have started using their smartphones to store sensitive information, hence the security of such information should be promised. The telecom regulator had previously banned an internet-connected doll called My Friend Cayla for similar reasons. Some experts think that this decision could be a "game-changer" for internet-connected devices. "Poorly secured smart devices often allow for privacy invasion. That is really concerning when it comes to kids' GPS tracking watches - the very watches that are suppose...

News, Sports Websites Vulnerable to Cyber Attacks: Study

11Jun By AdityaNo Comments

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News, Sports Websites Vulnerable to Cyber Attacks: Study

News and sports websites have some of the lowest levels of security adoption, making them vulnerable to cyber attacks, a new study has found. Researchers looked at the security protocols used by the top 500 sites in various industries and online sectors. They found that fewer than 10 per cent of news and sports websites used basic security protocols such as Transport Layer Security (TLS). Even those that do are not always using the "latest or strongest protocols", researchers said. "It is like news and sport content providers do not value the security of their content," said Professor Alan Woodward, a cyber-security expert at the University of Surrey in the UK. "They are leaving themselves vulnerable to attacks like cross-site scripting, where an attacker can pretend somethi...

21Dec By AdityaNo Comments

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BBC Launching Services in 4 New Indian Languages, Opening 157 New Jobs

The BBC Worldwide Service today said its plan to launch services in 11 new languages, four of them Indian - Marathi, Telugu, Gujarati and Punjabi - was progressing well and they would be operational by mid-2017. The services in the four Indian languages, which will focus on radio, mobile and video content, will create 157 new jobs, the London-headquartered broadcaster said. Addressing the media at the Mumbai Press Club, Indu Shekhar Sinha, Head of Business Development (Asia Pacific), BBC Worldwide Service, said, "We, as a broadcaster, are going to launch services in Telugu, Gujarati, Marathi and Punjabi with focus on radio services, mobile and video content, thus opening the vacancies 157 new jobs in India. "This is certainly one of our biggest expansions till date and is the part of...