Cyber Security
Major websites in Australia went down in a brief internet outage
The widespread downtime recalled an hour of global outage earlier this month, which was triggered by a software failure at…
Cyber Security
India
Twitter India MD questioned in May over ‘Congress Toolkit case’, as per sources
The development came every week after Delhi Police teams visited Twitter's offices in Delhi and Gurugram to follow abreast of…
Companies
Journey to the new space station commenced by China’s first crew
For the longest stay in low Earth orbit by any Chinese national, a spacecraft carrying three astronauts was launched by…
India
India’s IT sector to lose 3 million jobs as firms adopt automation: Bank of America
India's IT sector supports employment for over 16 million people including employees in low-skilled services and BPO
Funding
Browserstack raises valuation to $4 billion after fundraise led by Mary Meeker’s Bond
The SaaS startup will be using the capital raised to increase its manpower and infrastructure
Social Media
Instagram has now fixed the bug report
Mayor Fartade, an independent developer and bug bounty hunter, reported the flaw to Instagram in April this year, which has…
People
Ravi Shankar Prasad: Twitter had many opportunities to comply with new IT law
Union IT minister Shankar Prasad justified the removal of Twitter’s legal protection in India over non-compliance with Intermediary Guidelines, which,…
Tech
Reliance collaboration with Google’s smartphone faces supply chain setback
Billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s blueprint to surmount the Indian market with a locally assembled Google-powered smartphone is suffering a backfall, due…
Tech
Twitter may lose safe harbour after it fails to abide by new IT rules
Twitter is likely to lose legal protection accorded to it under section 79 of the Information Technology (IT) act along…
Gadgets
Samsung might introduce its foldable smartphone in August
Industry insiders on Tuesday reported that Samsung is expected to disclose its foldable smartphone in August. It too aims to…
India
CCI to hasten probe on Amazon and Flipkart as India scrutinizes Big Tech
The competition regulator is recruiting more officers and tightening deadlines to ensure cases involving big technology companies are investigated faster,…
Tech
PM Modi to deliver keynote on June 16 for VivaTech
The release added, “The event brings together stakeholders in technology innovation and the startup ecosystem and also includes exhibitions, awards,…