Prime Minister Narendra Modi will soon be seen expressing his views on conservation of nature, his time in the Himalayas, his encounters with wildlife in his youth and the cleanliness drive in India in an episode of “Man Vs Wild”. A video, giving a sneak peek of the episode, was released on Friday. In the […]
Tweaking its mobile operating system (OS), Apple is planning to restrict bar apps which used to make Internet-based voice calls from running in the background when not in use. To speed up phone call connections, at present, Facebook-owned apps — Messenger and WhatsApp run a feature known as Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP), even when […]
The Foreign Ministers of the member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) began a summit in the Thai capital on Wednesday, where they will discuss the ongoing territorial disputes in the South China Sea and trade tensions, among other issues. The Asean Foreign Ministers will hold talks till Saturday and will also […]
The Coffee Day Enterprises hit lower circuit on the BSE during the early trade on Tuesday following reports that V.G. Siddhartha, the company’s founder has gone missing. Siddhartha reportedly went missing late on Monday and is suspected to have jumped off a bridge in Mangaluru. According to reports, a search operation is currently underway while […]
Facebook-owned WhatsApp is all set to launch its peer-to-peer, UPI-based Pay service for over 300 million users — especially the small and medium businesses (SMBs) — in India sometimes later this year, its Global Head Will Cathcart announced here on Thursday. WhatsApp launched a test run of its payments service with one million users in […]
Aiming to make deeper inroads in the Indian market, Photo-messaging app Snapchat has added 13 million new users to reach 203 million daily active users globally for the first time, as its parent company Snap reported $388 million in revenue for the second quarter of 2019 — up 48 per cent (year-on-year). The company added […]
Without naming “Quad” – the informal grouping of the US, Japan, Australia and India in Beijing’s backyard, China’s white paper on defence released on Wednesday said competition in the Asia-Pacific is bringing uncertainties to regional security. The Chinese Defence Ministry issued the white paper outlining plans to build a high-tech Army and chided the US […]
Search engine giant Google is facing a loss of $13 million in a case settlement that concerned a privacy scandal that happened nine years ago and is said to have affected millions of people. In 2010, Google found itself tangled in the “Wi-Spy” incident in which its Street View cars were found to be collecting […]
The average cost of data breach in India grew 7.29 per cent year-over-year to reach Rs 12.8 crore from Rs 11.9 crore last year, said a new study by IBM on Tuesday. Per capita cost per lost or stolen record reached Rs 5,019, which represents an increase of 9.76 per cent from the prior year, […]
The Indian diaspora in Houston is getting ready to meet the Indian Prime Minister with a Texan “Howdy, Modi!” greeting on September 22. The Texas India Forum (TIF) that is organising the event billed as a “community summit” said it expects tens of thousands of people at the event. The event is named alliteratively with […]