Ex-Apple official leaves Twitter in less than six months

Ex-Apple official leaves Twitter in less than six months

In a significant development, former Apple public relations executive Natalie Kerris who joined micro-blogging website Twitter in February as Vice President (communications) this year, is leaving – at a time when Twitter is struggling to find new grounds to overcome stalled user growth and stagnated revenues. In a statement on Tuesday, Twitter confirmed Kerris’s departure, […]

Pokemon Go creator Niantic CEO’s Twitter account hacked

Pokemon Go creator Niantic CEO’s Twitter account hacked

After hacking Pokemon Go servers last month, hacking group OurMine on Tuesday broke into the Twitter account of John Hanke, the CEO of US-based software company Niantic that created the popular GPS-based augmented reality game with Japanese company Nintendo. OurMine took control of Hanke’s account and posted a series of tweets, including one that identified […]

Fibrosis plays a role in ageing

Fibrosis plays a role in ageing

Fibrosis, which mostly affects the lungs and hepatic tissues, accounts for up to 45 per cent of deaths in the developed world yet till date no effective therapeutic treatment has been developed, says a recent study. Fibrosis, one of the age-related pathologies that disrupt organ functionality dramatically, is a progressive accumulation of extra-cellular matrix which […]

Nayan scores grand double at JK FMSCI Racing

Nayan scores grand double at JK FMSCI Racing

Nayan Chaterjee emerged as the driver with luck, pluck and pace as he completed a grand double in the Euro JK 16 category of the JK Tyre FMSCI National Racing Championship at the Kari Motor Speedway here on Sunday. Nayan was the lucky beneficiary on Race 3 in this category, taking the first place in […]

Microsoft to cut additional 2,850 jobs from smartphone sector

Microsoft to cut additional 2,850 jobs from smartphone sector

Hurt by a failed $7.6 billion Nokia experiment amid growing losses in the smartphone hardware business segment, Microsoft has announced to lay off an additional 2,850 workers to the previously 1,850 jobs it said it would cut. In a regulatory filing, the tech giant said it will cut 4,700 jobs globally by the end of […]

Hillary Clinton accepts historic Democratic presidential nomination

Hillary Clinton accepts historic Democratic presidential nomination

Promising a populist agenda to build a better nation based on unity, Hillary Clinton on Thursday night aceppted the Democratic Party’s historic presidential nomination making her the first women candidate of a major US party and challenged Republican rival Donald Trump on what she said was his message of hate and divisiveness. “It is with […]

Hollande urges unity to win battle against terrorism

Hollande urges unity to win battle against terrorism

French President Francois Hollande on Tuesday reiterated calls for the nation’s unity to win a long battle against terrorism in a brief televised address after two men claiming allegiance to the Islamic State (IS) slaughtered a priest. Earlier on Tuesday, two armed men with knives entered a church in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, in France, during a morning […]

US reaffirms cooperation with India in fight against terrorism

US reaffirms cooperation with India in fight against terrorism

The cooperation between the US and India in the fight against the scourge of terrorism is “extremely strong and robust”, the US State Department has reaffirmed. “They (India) understand this issue and our cooperation — law enforcement, counter-terrorism, countering violent extremism — is extremely strong and robust,” Elizabeth Trudeau, Director in the US State Department […]

Twitter shares tumble after poor revenue growth, weak outlook

Twitter shares tumble after poor revenue growth, weak outlook

Although it added three million users — one million more that what analysts had expected — the not-so-promising second quarter earnings results led to the shares of micro-blogging website Twitter tumbling on Tuesday which wiped out nearly 10 per cent from its share price in after-market trading. The company posted quarterly revenue of $602 million, […]

Clinton nominated for president, husband says she will ‘never quit’

Clinton nominated for president, husband says she will ‘never quit’

Democrats has made Hillary Clinton the first female presidential nominee of a major party in the US history, after former President Bill Clinton endorsed his wife, saying she was a “change-maker” who will “never quit”. The former first lady, New York senator and secretary of state was formally installed as the party nominee at the […]