Facebook has made it easier to share music, introducing a new post format amid the boom in online streaming. Dubbed “Music Stories,” the new format allows people to listen to a 30-second preview of the shared song (or album) while on Facebook.. A person listening to a song on a streaming site would click “share” and then “copy.” He or […]
» Read moreFacebook Inc. shares rose to a record after the company notched another quarter of revenue that beat estimates, thanks to stepped-up mobile-advertising efforts. The stock rose 4.8 per cent to US$108.94 at 10:29 a.m. Thursday in New York. The shares reached as high as US$110.65, their intraday record since going public in May 2012. The gain gave Facebook a market value […]
» Read moreThe Indian government has became the first non-US based brand to have a Twitter emoji – #MakeInIndia – which aims to promote the country as a global manufacturing hub. “As a key highlight of this government campaign, an emoji of a black lion on an orange background, a version of the national programme’s official logo, will now appear next to […]
» Read moreMaharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis said that he was looking to build 50 smart villages starting with Arinsal by the end of 2016. “We are not only looking at building smart cities but smart villages. Our first such project is the Arinsal village where Microsoft will help us. We are looking to build 50 smart villages by the end of […]
» Read moreHewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), the enterprise division of HP that became a separate company effective November 1, plans to open an innovation hub in India that will assist startups to scale their operations. The hub will be open by the end of November but the company declined to name the location. “We will help startups with technology, expertise in architecting […]
» Read moreMicrosoft chief Satya Nadella will meet industry leaders like Mahindra Group chairman Anand Mahindra, Axis Bank head Shikha Sharma and Tata Starbucks CEO Avani Davda during his one-day visit to India on November 5. The India-born CEO will also deliver a keynote address at ‘Microsoft’s Future Unleashed’ event here that will bring together 3,000 industry thought leaders, enterprise heads, developers […]
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