San Francisco, Microsoft will give its staff in the US “unlimited time off”, no longer requiring them to formally record vacation. According to The Verge, the new ‘Discretionary Time Off’ policy will apply to all employees on the pay role. “How, when, and where we do our jobs has dramatically changed. And as we’ve transformed, […]
San Francisco, Jan 4 (IANS) For the first time since early 2021, Apple’s market cap fell below $2 trillion during trading on Tuesday, one year to the day after it became the first public tech company valued at $3 trillion. The fall meant that in just one year, the tech giant lost $1 trillion in market […]
New Delhi, Jan 2 (IANS) Despite a few hiccups this year, the Indian internet industry is expected to grow and could reach a valuation of $5 trillion by 2030, a report showed on Monday. Home to 780 million internet users, India is home to the second largest internet user base in the world. “As digital will […]
A lawsuit filed against Apple has claimed that its Watch’s blood oxygen sensor is racially biased against people with dark skin tones. According to AppleInsider, plaintiff Alex Morales, who bought an Apple Watch between 2020 and 2021, said he was aware that the device has pulse oximetry features, and believed it did this without regard […]
New Delhi, Dec 11 (IANS) Google finally restored Gmail service after it suffered a massive outage for millions of users globally, including in India, on Saturday. Gmail users complained about mails not being received. Both mobile app and desktop versions were affected across the world. “The issue with gmail is now fully mitigated. All the backlog […]
San Francisco, Dec 7 (IANS) Twitter owner Elon Musk briefly lost his position as the world’s richest man to Bernard Arnault, the chief executive of luxury brand Louis Vuitton’s parent company LVMH on Wednesday. According to Forbes, Arnault and his family logged personal wealth of $185.4 billion, ahead of Musk which recorded a net worth of […]
New Delhi, Nov 29 (IANS) Google-owned YouTube on Tuesday said that it has removed over 1.7 million videos in India for violating its Community Guidelines in its Q3 report. In the same period, the streaming platform removed over 5.6 million videos globally for violating its community guidelines. According to the Community Guidelines Enforcement report, more than […]
San Francisco, Nov 27 (IANS) Google and Microsoft have both announced new agreements to lower their IT operations’ carbon footprint by using renewable energy sources in their data centres. According to ‘The Register’, Google has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Engie, a French utility company, for 100 MW of energy generated by the Moray […]
Bengaluru, Nov 16 (IANS) Beleaguered Japanese SoftBank Group is likely to sell shares worth around $215 million in financial payments major Paytm’s parent company via a block deal this week, the media reported on Wednesday. CNBC-TV18 reported, citing sources, that the Japanese investor is offering to sell 29 million shares in the digital payments and financial […]
Mumbai, Oct 31 (IANS) The BSE Sensex on Monday closed at 60,746.59 points, up by 786.74 points, mainly due to the US factors, said a senior official of Geojit Financial Services. “The ongoing rally which has taken the Sensex above 60,000 has been triggered mainly by the rally in the mother market US where the Dow […]