Online marketplace Snapdeal today said it has established a data sciences centre in San Carlos, California to get top global talent and build high-value solutions. The centre will focus on big-data and advanced analytics to add clarity to Snapdeal’sconsumer-centric initiatives, help shape business strategy and optimise the operational efficiencies using data. “We have set up a data science engine in California, […]
» Read moreThe social networking giant has paid $10,000 to a 10-year-old boy for spotting a bug in Facebook-owned photo-sharing platform Instagram. According to a report in technology website VentureBeat.com, Jani from Finland discovered the security flaw in Instagram on his own. He found a bug in Instagram which requires you to be at least 13 before even signing up, that lets […]
» 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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