May 14th, 2016What's behind the accusations that Facebook is manipulating its "trending topics" feature to promote or suppress certain political perspectives?
According to the technology blog Gizmodo, a former Facebook contractor with self-described conservative leanings said Facebook downplayed news that conservatives are interested in and...
March 26th, 2016RENO(NEVADA): A drone has successfully delivered a package to a residential location in a Nevada town in what its maker and the state's governor said Friday was the first fully autonomous urban drone delivery in the U.S.
Flirtey CEO Matt Sweeney said the six-rotor drone flew about a half-mile along a pre-programmed delivery route on...
March 4th, 2016NEW DELHI: Times Internet, the digital venture of the Times of India group, will acquire US-based cricket broadcaster Willow TV International in a USD 100 million (around Rs 673 crore) deal.
"Times (Internet) has committed USD 100 million to the purchase of Willow and our primary investment into the business - for rights acquisitions,...
January 30th, 2016Hyderabad based IT services firm Cambridge Technology has invested Rs 8 crore ($1.3 million) in US-based automated photo-sharing platform PhotoKarma. Idealab, Bessemer and New York Angels are also participated in this investment round.
Before this investment Cambridge Tech has also invested in MyCrowd, a crowd-testing platform for...
January 15th, 2016(Reuters)- Twitter is being sued by the widow of an American killed in Jordan, who accuses the social media company of giving a voice to Islamic State, adding to the pressure to crack down on online propaganda linked to terrorism.
Tamara Fields, a Florida woman whose husband Lloyd died in the Nov. 9 attack on the police training center...
December 15th, 2015In 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...
December 5th, 2015Khan Academy, a US-based non-profit organization and an e-learning website, launched a Hindi version Thursday at the India Habitat Centre.
They also published a small press release on it's Khan Academy Blog -
Today we’re happy to announce that learners around the world can now access Khan Academy resources in Hindi! If you speak Hindi,...
October 18th, 2015Reuters - Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd is lobbying hard to stay off the U.S. Trade Representative's blacklist after coming under renewed pressure this year over suspected counterfeits sold on its shopping platforms.
Re-inclusion on the USTR's annual list of the world's most "notorious markets" for sales of...
