June 11th, 2018The 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...
February 24th, 2018The 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...
February 10th, 2018Bangalore best known for its wild traffic jams where people stand in haphazard sequences and wait for the road to get clear, have increased difficulties in the past for the citizens, tourists and flyers to move around quickly, but, what has given light to atleast the flyers, is the approval of the heli Taxis from back and forth to the...
February 9th, 2018"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,...
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November 18th, 2017German 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...
June 11th, 2017News 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...
December 21st, 2016The 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...
November 3rd, 2016Leading global professional network LinkedIn today said it has signed an agreement with the human resource development ministry to create more job opportunities for Indian students.
As part of the MoU, LinkedIn's 'Placements' product will be adopted by all Indian colleges affiliated with All India Council for Technical Education...
October 6th, 2016Twitter Inc has told potential acquirers it is seeking to conclude negotiations about selling itself by the time it reports third-quarter earnings on Oct. 27, according to people familiar with the matter.
The timeline is hugely ambitious in the context of most mergers and acquisitions, given that Twitter began mulling a sale only last...
September 20th, 2016Microblogging site Twitter has decided to discontinue engineering tasks in India, a move that will lead to lay offs at its development centre in Bengaluru.
The company, however, did not disclose the number of people being handed pink slips.
When contacted, Twitter in an emailed statement said: "As part of our normal business review,...
September 16th, 2016NewsDistill, a city-based news aggregator app has raised USD 100,000 in seed funding from a group of investors including Ganesh Narasimhan, Ramana Thumu, and Sudhir Mallem.
NewsDistill today said in a statement that it is likely to raise another USD 100,000 from other investors in the next couple of months.
Launched in 2015,...
