Cook rejects charges of Apple being ‘a monopoly’
San Francisco, June 5 (IANS) Apple CEO Tim Cook has rejected the allegation that Apple was “a monopoly” that should be broken up along with other US tech giants such as Google, Amazon and Facebook….
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Wipro to Acquire International TechneGroup Incorporated (ITI), a Global Interoperability Solutions Company
Business Wire IndiaWipro Limited (NYSE: WIT, BSE: 507685, NSE: WIPRO), a leading information technology, consulting and business process services company, today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire International TechneGroup Incorporated (ITI),…
Apple products escaped fallout of trade war: Cook
San Francisco, June 5 (IANS) Apple CEO Tim Cook has said that his company’s products have managed to escape the fallout of President Donald Trump’s trade war against China and he thinks it would remain…
Pichai, Friedman to get 2019 Global Leadership Award
Washington, June 5 (IANS) Business advocacy group USIBC has chosen Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Nasdaq President and CEO Adena Friedman as recipients of its prestigious 2019 Global Leadership Award for “catalyzing growth in the…
MEDIA ALERT: Algorand Foundation Announces Date for First Auction
Business Wire IndiaAlgorand Foundation: What: On June 19th, 2019, The Algorand Foundation will hold its first in a series of Dutch Auctions out of Singapore. These auctions will allow Algos,…
Homophobic remarks do not violate YouTube policies
San Francisco, June 5 (IANS) Google-owned video sharing app YouTube has decided that homophobic comments do not violate its policies. The decision came formally as a response to an ongoing controversy about YouTuber Steven Crowder…
China first country in launching rocket from sea
By Gaurav Sharma Beijing, June 5 (IANS) In a first, China on Wednesday successfully launched a rocket from a sailing ship into space, showcasing its prowess in the field. A Long March-11 solid propellant carrier…
Uber Eats getting embedded into main app: Report
San Francisco, June 5 (IANS) Ride-hailing major Uber has embedded the web version of its food delivery app – Uber Eats – into the main application in select markets. The move is being seen as…
Google Search, Assistant get special World Cup features
New Delhi, June 5 (IANS) Keeping in line with the the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 action, Google on Wednesday introduced special features to its Search, Assistant to help people get all the important match…
Jagual Land Rover, BMW to partner for electric vehicles
New Delhi, June 5 (IANS) Automobile giants Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) and BMW Group will collaborate to develop electric vehicles and the concerned technology in the segment, according to a regulatory filing by Tata Motors,…
YouTube to expand ties with ticketing providers
San Francisco, June 5 (IANS) After covering more than 90 per cent of the US ticketing market, YouTube now appears set to expand these partnerships globally to help artists engage directly with fans and sell…
Spotify testing genre-specific podcast playlists
San Francisco, June 5 (IANS) In order to help creators find a bigger audience, Swedish music streaming giant Spotify is beginning to test the creation of curated playlists of podcast episodes revolving around specific genres….
7.7 mn LabCorp customers affected by data breach
San Francisco, June 5 (IANS) A breach at a third-party billing collections firm has exposed the personal and financial information of 7.7 million consumers of US-based medical testing firm LabCorp, the company said. The hack…
Most consumers will pay more for sustainable products
New Delhi, June 5 (IANS) More than half of consumers are willing to pay more for sustainable products designed to be reused or recycled, according to a new survey from Accenture. While consumers remain primarily…
NTT Communications Wins Best Asian Telecom Carrier and Best International Wholesale Carrier at Telecom Asia Awards 2019
Business Wire IndiaNTT Communications Corporation (NTT Com), the information and communications technology (ICT) solutions business within NTT (TOKYO: 9432), announced today that it has been named Best Asian Telecom Carrier and Best International Wholesale Carrier…
Bezos buying prime Manhattan properties for $80mn
New York, June 5 (IANS) The richest man in the world, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is finalising a deal to buy three apartments in New York’s prime Manhattan area for nearly $80 million. The recently-divorced…
Google’s trip planner mobile app ending in August
San Francisco, June 5 (IANS) Google is putting an end to its trip planner mobile app – Google Trips. “Support for the Google Trips app will end on August 5. Until then, you’ll still be…
‘Iron Man’ unveils tech initiative to save Earth
By Nishant Arora Las Vegas, June 5 (IANS) “Iron Man” actor Robert Downey Jr. has announced a new initiative called The Footprint Coalition that would help clean up the planet using advanced technologies like Artificial…
Mozilla Firefox begins blocking web tracking
San Francisco, June 5 (IANS) Mozilla, the maker of Open Source browser Firefox, has started blocking website cookies that can let advertisers and publishers track users across the web. The company is blocking third-party cookies…
Asian Paints Expands Deployment of o9’s Artificial Intelligence to Procurement
Business Wire IndiaAsian Paints has successfully transformed its procurement planning by implementing o9 Solutions’ cloud-based, artificial intelligence platform. o9 and Asian Paints partnered to engineer the “Purchaser’s Workbench” platform specifically for the latter’s unique business…