Apple sees a “huge market potential” for its products in India and the technology giant is “really putting energy” in the country which will begin rolling out high-speed wireless networks this year, CEO Tim Cook said. “This is another huge one. India will be the most populous country in the world in 2022. India today has about 50 per cent […]
» Read moreGoogle has acquired a business technology start-up founded by an Indian-origin entrepreneur as part of its plans to scale training offerings for Google Apps to its customers and customers’ users. Varun Malhotra is the founder and CEO of Toronto-based Synergyse, which was launched in 2013 with an aim to teach users how to use Google Apps. Google did not disclose […]
» Read moreDigital payments firm Paytm expects to start its payments bank operation in the country by August. The Noida-headquartered company had received an in-principle approval from RBI to set up a payments bank in August last year. Payments bank can accept demand deposits and savings bank deposits from individuals and small businesses, up to a maximum of Rs 1 lakh per […]
» Read moreZomato’s chief product officer Tanmay Saksena, who quit the restaurant discovery platform earlier this year, is joining health care startup 1mg as its chief operating officer (COO). Having spent almost a decade in Silicon Valley, Saksena returned to India in January 2015 to launch Zomato’s food ordering business. Saksena, along with Namita Gupta, who came from social networking site Facebook, […]
» Read moreThe popular WhatsApp messaging service is not working in Brazil, apparently as a result of an ongoing judicial battle. Local news reports say a judge in the remote northeastern state of Sergipe ordered the service suspended nationwide for 72 hours, starting Monday afternoon.
» Read moreTwitter’s live video-streaming application, Periscope, has hired an editor-in-chief, Evan Hansen, who says he plans to showcase the best content and help develop the platform. Hansen himself revealed his appointment to Periscope, which lets users broadcast live video free of charge from smartphones running Android or Apple iOS software. The videos remain available for 24 hours before disappearing. “I am […]
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