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Pakistan’s prime minister has appealed to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to ban Islamophobic content on the site, warning of an increase in radicalisation amongst Muslims, the government said on Sunday. In a letter, which the Pakistani government posted on Twitter, Imran Khan said that “growing Islamophobia” was encouraging extremism and violence across the world, especially

Walmart’s Flipkart will buy a 7.8 percent stake in Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail Ltd for Rs. 1,500 crores, the fashion retail company said, sending its shares up 6 percent on Friday. The investment comes at a time when Amazon, billionaire Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance, and Flipkart are in a race to gain market share in

Flipkart Big Diwali Sale is starting from October 29 and will last till November 4. The ecommerce platform recently ended its Big Billion Days sale that lasted from October 17 to October 21. And, the Flipkart Dussehra Specials sale is currently underway, will October 28. Now, the e-commerce platform is gearing up for another “Bada

Representatives of Amazon in India have refused to appear before a parliamentary panel reviewing the country’s privacy bill, an Indian lawmaker said on Friday, an allegation the US commerce giant said was a result of a misunderstanding. Meenakshi Lekhi, head of a parliamentary panel which is reviewing the Indian government’s Personal Data Protection Bill, had said

Hackers sponsored by Russia have been trying to break into US ;state and local government computer networks and in two instances were successful, US government agencies said on Thursday, the second major warning over foreign hacking in as many days. In an alert less than two weeks before the US election, the agencies said that

Google Play Music has shut down for several users. The music streaming service’s site, and in some cases Android app too, says that “Google Play Music is no longer available”, and recommends that users transfer their music to YouTube Music, or download/ delete their data. While the app on phones is still working for some

Facebook independent Oversight Board, which can overrule company decisions on whether to take down posts and recommend policy changes, started accepting cases for review on Thursday. The board, which the world’s largest social network created in response to criticism of its handling of problematic content, is open for cases both from users who have exhausted the

The US Justice Department’s nascent antitrust case against Google will get the attention it needs to succeed if Democrat Joe Biden wins the US presidency next month, antitrust experts said. William Kovacic, an antitrust professor at George Washington University Law School, said he expects a Biden Justice Department would do one of two things: support

Google’s long-running business model based on free services and advertising will be put to the test in the landmark antitrust lawsuit filed this week by the US Justice Department. But the government is likely to face challenges proving monopoly allegations against the tech firm which grew into one of the world’s most successful companies by

Reliance Jio on Wednesday launched JioPages, a Web browser based on Chromium Blink with support for features like encrypted connections, and support for eight Indian languages, and is now available for download on Google Play. In its announcement, Reliance Jio highlighted Web security and data privacy, and on the Google Play listing it also notes

Britain and the United States on Monday condemned what they said were a litany of malicious cyber-attacks orchestrated by Russian military intelligence, including attempts to disrupt next year’s Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo. British and US officials said the attacks were conducted by Unit 74455 of Russia’s GRU military intelligence agency, also known as the

Google continues to track you even if you explicitly instruct it not to, an independent software developer has claimed. The issue seems to be with Google Chrome’s storing of cookies and site data on a user’s device. Even if Chrome has been set to automatically delete all cookies and site data upon closing the browser,

Apple is hosting a series of free virtual sessions in India under its ‘Today at Apple’ initiative. Nearly month after the online Apple Store launched in India, the tech giant will be commemorating the occasion by offering free virtual workshops related to photography, music, art, and other creative fields. The workshops began on October 17,

Amazon said that it has sold more iPhones on the opening day of the Great Indian Festival — which was only for Prime members — than the entire sale last year. The feat appears to be the effect of Amazon’s deep discount on the iPhone 11 listed for Rs 47,999. Overall, the company has said

Google has brought a Smart Fill feature to Google Sheets, letting the spreadsheet app detect and learn patterns between columns in order to autocomplete data entry. The tech giant said that Smart Fill will make data entry quicker and less prone to error. The feature can be used for tasks like extracting the first name

Amazon Great Indian Festival 2020 and Flipkart Big Billion Days sales are currently underway with hundreds of deals and offers. Both Amazon and Flipkart sales are promising exciting discounts on a large selection of laptops, TVs, smart home devices, and other electronics. But not all of these deals are ideal for everyone, and we’ve scanned

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s personal website data has allegedly been leaked on the dark Web. The leaked data is said to include a “substantial amount” of personally identifiable information of lakhs of people. This includes name, email addresses, and mobile numbers, according to a report. The latest development comes just over a month after Prime

Airtel’s privacy policy has riled up users after they found that it says Airtel can collect users’ sensitive personal information, such as sexual orientation, genetic information, and political opinion, and share all of this with third parties. Users are raging on Twitter about how intrusive this is. But as shocking as it may sound to

Google has announced that it will transition its users from Google Hangouts to Google Chat under the re-branded Google Workspace (previously G Suite) in the first half of next year. Google Workspace brings Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Meet, and now Chat, within an integrated, unified space. Up until now, Google Chat was only

ICICI Bank is down and netbanking, debit card transactions, as well as UPI transactions are not working for many customers in India. Many affected customers have raised complaints against the outage on social media. While several people are not able to make any transactions through ICICI Bank’s net banking service, some of them are not

Flipkart Big Billion Days 2020 sale has just kicked off for everyone, 12 hours after offering an early access to Plus members. The six-day Big Billion Days sale on Flipkart brings hundreds of deals and bundled offers on popular mobile phones, laptops, TVs, headphones, speakers, and other electronics. Flipkart has tied up with State Bank

Amazon and Flipkart are busy preparing for their festive sales that are kicking off now. Both online marketplaces have planned massive offers to persuade customers. But even before any lucrative deals and discounts were announced this year, major e-commerce platforms have seen record sales of smartphones in India. The growth in smartphone sales on platforms

A much-hyped network upgrade called “5G” means different things to different people. To industry proponents, it’s the next huge innovation in wireless internet. To the US government, it’s the backbone technology of a future that America will wrestle with China to control. To many average people, it’s simply a mystery. What, exactly, is 5G wireless, and

Amazon Great Indian Festival sale will begin from October 17, the e-commerce giant has announced. This is one day after Flipkart’s Big Billion Days 2020 sale that is kicking off October 16. However, the Amazon sale will start for Prime members 24 hours early. This means that Prime members will be able to avail deals

When Diane Leonard checked in to a conference the other day, the routine was familiar: Watching keynote speakers, interacting with other attendees, bumping into friends. One key difference: The grantwriter was at home in Clayton, New York, with her favorite black coffee, treadmill desk and mini goldendoodle, Ollie. Like many gatherings this year, the tech

Amazon’s total sales have soared during the coronavirus pandemic, yet in Latin America, the world’s biggest online retailer is locked in a dogfight with local rivals as it rolls out its Prime Day event in Mexico and, for the first time, Brazil. During the Tuesday and Wednesday annual shopping event that spans 19 countries, the

Amazon and Flipkart will run their first big festive season sales this week. Amazon Great Indian Festival 2020 sale will begin at midnight on October 16 for Prime subscribers, and from October 17 for everyone else. Flipkart’s Big Billion Days 2020 sale will kick off at 12pm (noon) on October 15 for Plus members, and

The best Hindi-language movies on Amazon Prime Video are a mix of contemporary and nostalgic fare, and hence much less dependent on Bollywood’s biggest studios of today than Netflix. Sure, the likes of Yash Raj, Dharma, Excel, Eros STX, Viacom18, and Reliance Entertainment are involved, but a chunk of the collection is thanks to legacy

Pixar’s Soul is going straight to Disney+ Hotstar on Christmas. Disney has announced that the next Pixar movie — featuring the voices of Jamie Foxx and Tina Fey in the lead — will skip theatres and premiere directly on its streaming service Disney+ globally on Christmas Day, December 25. For those of us in India

International Business Machines is splitting itself into two public companies, capping a years-long effort by the world’s first big computing firm to diversify away from its legacy businesses to focus on high-margin cloud computing. IBM will list its IT infrastructure services unit, which provides technical support for 4,600 clients in 115 countries and has a backlog