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Serving needs for billions: 5G expected to unleash the power of IoT

India has been a late convert in telecom technology

LG to launch new rotating-screen smartphone Wing on Tuesday in South Korea

LG Electronics said on Sunday that its new dual-screen smartphone The Wing will go on sale in South Korea this week as the tech firm aims to boost its handset sales amid the pandemic

Twitter to remove tweets wishing for Donald Trump's death from Covid-19

Twitter has said that it will proactively remove tweets by those who wish for US President Trump's death on the platform and will put their accounts into a "read only" mode for violating its policies

Google hiring special team to spot critical bugs in Android apps

As bugs in highly-sensitive apps on Google Play Store keep increasing, Google is now looking for security engineers to find critical vulnerabilities and focus largely on fake Covid-19 contact tracing

Paytm, other startups vow to fight 'big daddy' Google's clout: sources

Setting the stage for a potential showdown, entrepreneurs held two video conferences this week to strategise

Personalised advertising and users' privacy can coexist: Facebook

Some people believe that services that rely on personalised ads are inherently harmful -- collecting more data than they need to provide value to people

With the Feds circling, Google is starting to play nice with smaller rivals

John Nardone, chief executive of Flashtalking - which works with advertisers to personalize messages - said Google recently agreed to open a pipeline to crucial data

Google drops Australia from News Showcase launch amid regulator rancour

Alphabet Inc unit dropped Australia from the product's launch this week because its antitrust body has since pushed for laws forcing Google to pay royalties for content industry-wide

Google turns off selfie face retouching in Pixel phones by default

Google has said that the face retouching options are available in the camera app of Pixel smartphones but turned off by default

Facebook steps up promotion of groups content in feeds, around the web

Facebook app chief Fidji Simo said Facebook would also start showing conversations from public groups outside the app, such as in web searches

Delhi Assembly vs Facebook: Is the social media giant answerable to states?

Facebook has argued that the Delhi Assembly can't summon a non-member to appear before it, since 'police and 'public order' do not fall within its ambit

Financial services becomes next battleground for PhonePe, Amazon and Google

Walmart-owned PhonePe has become the fastest-growing insure-tech distributor in India within just 9 months of the insurance category going live on the digital payments app

Your WhatsApp messages are encrypted, but are they really secure?

Apart from physical access to handsets, metadata and backups are two common ways in which private communications can be broken

Facebook testing feature to show public group conversations on news feed

Facebook on Thursday said it will start testing a new feature to allow users discover conversations in 'public groups' on their news feed.

Homegrown startups take on Google, Facebook for 'India's digital dreams'

The Indian group is considering lobbying with the government to have global technology companies such as Google and Facebook become "local"

Twitter expands voice tweets feature to more iOS users

Twitter has expanded its new voice tweet feature to more iOS users that allows them to record an audio clip and send that via a tweet

Google unveils latest cheaper Pixel phone, rolls out new TV service

Google will try to make a bigger splash in the smartphone market with a cheaper high-end model while it also aims to expand its presence on bigger screens with a new TV service

China preparing to launch an antitrust investigation into Google: Report

A potential probe would also look at accusations that Google's market position could cause 'extreme damage' to Chinese companies like Huawei

India's AI spending to grow at 30.8% CAGR to $880.5 million in 2023: IDC

India's AI (artificial intelligence) spending is expected to grow at a CAGR of 30.8 per cent to touch $880.5 million (around Rs 6,490.6 cr) in 2023, research firm IDC said on Wednesday

Google Meet to continue unlimited calls in free plan till March 2021

Google is now extending that policy and free Meet users can host longer calls through March 2021