Google on Monday agreed to settle a landmark privacy case with 40 US states over accusations that the search engine giant misled users into believing location tracking had been switched off on their devices. A statement said it was the largest multi-state privacy settlement by state authorities in US historyContinue Reading
Amazon.com Inc is planning to lay off about 10,000 people in corporate and technology jobs starting as soon as this week, the New York Times reported on Monday, citing people with knowledge of the matter. The cuts will focus on the e-commerce giant’s devices unit, which houses voice-assistant Alexa, asContinue Reading
Smartphone gaming is a colossal business. It isn’t just limited to the excitement around certain game title releases. Data testifies as much to a much wider uptake. Globally, there are expected to be as many as 2,323.9 million mobile gamers, globally, by 2027, according to research firm Statista. Another researchContinue Reading
The October consumer (provisional) inflation stands at 6.77%, down from 7.41% last month, according to government data. The provision combined consumer food price index for October stood at 7.01, down from 8.60 per cent the previous month. The National Statistical Office, which comes under the ministry of statistics and programmeContinue Reading
India’s wholesale price index (WPI) inflation eased to 8.39 per cent in October – helped by a fall in prices of fuel and manufactured goods – news agency PTI said Monday. This is the first time in 19 months WPI inflation has been recorded in single digits; the previous single-digitContinue Reading
Just days after it was reported that Elon Musk has ended Twitter’s work-from-home policy, the new boss of the social networking platform cleared the air around the remote working policies on Sunday. Replying to a report tweeted by an unverified account that said, ‘the billionaire businessman has ordered his IrelandContinue Reading
Twitter’s new owner Elon Musk is further gutting the teams that battle misinformation on the social media platform as outsourced moderators learned over the weekend they were out of a job. Twitter and other big social media firms have relied heavily on contractors to track hate and other harmful content.Continue Reading
Cryptocurrency trading firm FTX has filed for bankruptcy protection and its then-chief executive officer (CEO) Sam Bankman-Fried has stepped down. On Friday, people familiar with the developments told news agency Reuters that Bankman-Fried secretly transferred $10 billion of customer funds from FTX to his trading company Alameda Research. Apart fromContinue Reading
Reserve Bank of India Governor Shaktikanta Das on Saturday – speaking at the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit 2022 – stressed that inflation between 4 per cent and 6 per cent can help the central bank keep the monetary policy supportive of the economy. “Any inflation above 6 per cent canContinue Reading
Amid concerns over Rupee depreciation and forex reserves, RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das on Saturday elaborated about the current situation and the objectives of the central bank’s intervention at the 20th edition of the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit. “The first objective of our market intervention in the forex market is toContinue Reading