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Second coming of social media has a business peg: Facebook India head

According to data shared by the company for the first time, 416 million users in India access Facebook every month, out of which 234 million access it every day

Apple Diwali offers live on India Store Online, get AirPods with iPhone 12

Apple on Thursday announced that its Diwali offer is live on Apple's official India website and the company is offering first-gen AirPods for free with iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 mini.

Zuckerberg's notes from 15 years ago haunt Facebook in lawsuit over privacy

It's been a bad week for Facebook, which faced an unprecedented global outage of the company's sites and a damaging interview by a former insider turned whistle-blower

Snapchat was the biggest winner the day Facebook's services went down

Facebook blamed network configuration glitches for immobilizing a suite of apps from Messenger to Instagram and driving some of its 2.7 billion daily users to the competition

Facebook CEO Zuckerberg hits back, says whistle-blower's claims are untrue

"At the most basic level, I think most of us just don't recognise the false picture of the company that is being painted," he wrote in a note to employees

Facebook blames outage on error during routine maintenance

The problem occurred as engineers were carrying out day to day work on Facebook's global backbone network

This startup is using IoT to help India's silk farmers get superior yields

ReshaMandi embraces the entire silk supply chain from farmer to consumer. While its IoT devices help improve cocoon quality, the firm is also is a one-stop-shop for weavers and retailers

Xiaomi India sells 2 mn smartphones in first wave of festive sales

Xiaomi India on Wednesday announced that it has sold over 20 lakh smartphones in 5 days of the festive sale across channels.

Apple might come out with new MacBook Pro in October: Report

Apart from this, there are rumours doing the rounds that Apple is also preparing for the launch of new, third-generation AirPods

Gaming apps block access in Karnataka as ban takes effect

The latest ban has intensified concerns that growing state regulations could hit the nascent but booming gaming sector in India

Google wants to use AI to time traffic lights more efficiently

Google plans in the coming weeks to allow its Nest thermostat users to buy renewable energy credits for $10 a month to offset emissions from heating and cooling

Google to turn on 2-factor authentication by default for 150 mn users

Google has announced that it is planning to auto-enroll 150 million users into the company's "two-step verification" system by the end of this year

Short-form video consumption to reach 650 mn users in India by 2025

India's online video user base has scaled to more than 350 million people, growing 24 per cent over 2018 to 2020, nearly twice as fast as markets such as China and Indonesia.

'Buck stops with Mark': Whistleblower blasts Facebook 'metrics-led culture'

"Facebook's products harm children, stoke division and weaken our democracy," the whistleblower said

Artist who squirts paint with eyes destroys canvases to create NFTs

Using homemade explosive devices, Granato blew up five of his works that he valued at $70,000 to create non-fungible token (NFT) artworks here

Facebook whistleblower to say former employer an 'urgent threat' to US

Haugen, a former product manager on Facebook's civic misinformation team, says the social media giant keeps its algorithms and operations a secret

Zuckerberg loses $7 billion over Facebook outage; Telegram, Signal gain

The stock slide sent Zuckerberg's worth down to $120.9 bn, dropping him below Bill Gates to No. 5 on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index

Rise in cloud adoption necessitates relook at security infrastructure

In the past year, a staggering 88% of Indian organisations suffered a business-impacting cyberattack, with 56% of respondents indicating the attacks targeted remote workers

Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg has had a terrible week. And it's only Tuesday

If the networking problem that brought down services aren't enough, whistle-blower Frances Haugen will appear before a Senate subcommittee on Tuesday

Merchants hit by revision in payment norms form an alliance

The alliance is open for memberships to merchants that use digital payments