There was high drama near Mumbai’s Gateway of India on Tuesday afternoon, when notes of Rs 1,000 denomination were noticed floating in the water and several people ventured in to grab them. According to Colaba resident Harichandra Somar, “I heard that currency notes were floating in the water near Gateway and when I rushed to the spot I saw several […]
» Read moreWashington: India-born Sundar Pichai was named CEO of Google on Tuesday by the company’s founders Larry Page and Sergei Brin in course of a re-organization that created a mother company called Alphabet. Pichai, 43, a Chennai native who went to IIT Kharagpur and later to Stanford and Wharton, will take charge of a slimmed down Google (quickly dubbed Google Minus) […]
» Read moreNew Delhi: Social networking giant Facebook has distributed benefits worth $20 million to developers in India, its second largest market globally to help them build and monetize apps. Under its FbStart initiative that was started last year, the US-based firm has provided free tools and services worth $50 million to help developers in the Asia Pacific region. “Developers are an […]
» Read moreNew York: Silicon Valley giants Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and Twitter are working with Britain’s Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) to implement a new system that will help detect and block images of child pornography online. IWF, a charitable foundation, has introduced a new technology that enables it to tag images of sexual abuse with distinct hashes – sort of codes […]
» Read morePrime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated Chennai-born Sundar Pichai on being appointed Google’s chief executive officer. “Congratulations Sundar Pichai. My best wishes for the new role at Google.” Modi tweeted.
» Read moreMAIDUGURI, NIGERIA: A blast at a market in northeastern Nigeria’s Borno state killed at least 47 people and injured another 52, a military source and a civilian joint task force member said on Tuesday. The explosion, in a region where hundreds of people have been killed in attacks by suspected members of militant Islamist group Boko Haram in the last […]
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