Technology
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Kunal Shah’s CRED acquires wealth management platform Kuvera
New Delhi: Credit Card bill payment leader CRED on Tuesday announced the acquisition of the online wealth management platform Kuvera in an effort to take on the likes of Zerodha and Groww.…
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India smartphone market grows 19% in Q4 2023, 5G share up 65%
New Delhi: India smartphone market grew 19 per cent (year-on-year) in the holiday quarter (Q4) of 2023, as Xiaomi led the overall smartphone market followed by Samsung, a report showed on Tuesday.…
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Google removes 2,200 fraudulent loan apps from Play Store: Centre
New Delhi: The government on Tuesday informed Parliament that Google has suspended or removed more than 2,200 fraudulent loan apps from its Play Store between September 2022 and August 2023. The government…
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Deepfake video meeting with fake CFO costs company $25.6 mn
Hong Kong: A deepfake video conference call where a digitally recreated avatar of the chief financial officer (CFO) ordered money transfers has cost a multinational company $25.6 million in a first-such scam.…
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Facebook turns 20, Instagram tells Zuckerberg ‘love you dad’
New Delhi: Facebook has turned 20, after Mark Zuckerberg launched the site in 2004 which rapidly became the most loved social networking platform in the years to come. On Instagram, Zuckerberg shared…
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Neobanking startup Muvin winds up operations: Report
New Delhi: Neobanking startup Muvin has reportedly shut down its operations, as per a Reserve Bank of India (RBI)’s directive to stop using Unified Payments Interface (UPI) in a co-branding arrangement. A…
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Adobe brings Firefly, Lightroom tools to Apple Vision Pro headset
New Delhi: Adobe’s Firefly AI, the text-to-image tool behind features like Photoshop’s generative fill, will be available on the $3,500 Apple Vision Pro mixed reality (MR) headset as a native app, alongside…
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Google ‘changing’ Bard name to Gemini in big AI push
New Delhi: Google is planning some big changes to its artificial intelligence (AI) models, including reportedly changing the name of Bard to Gemini. Android app developer Dylan Roussel has apparently leaked a…
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Zuckerberg fifth richest person in the world following surge in Meta share price
New York: Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg is now the fifth richest person in the world following a surge in Meta’s share price that has seen his net worth increase more than…
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Apple not to license Masimo’s patents despite Watch import ban
San Francisco: Apple has no intention to license healthcare company Masimo’s blood oxygen detection to end the Apple Watch import ban. Apple CEO Tim Cook told CNBC that the company is focused…
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Some customers had tears in their eyes at Vision Pro launch: Tim Cook
San Francisco: As Apple CEO Tim Cook greeted first customers of the $3,499 mixed reality (MR) headset Vision Pro, he realised some of them even had tears in their eyes as they…
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Jeff Bezos to sell 50 mn Amazon shares in next 12 months
San Francisco: Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is planning to sell at least 50 million company shares in the next year, the media reported. According to a filing with the US Securities and…
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Time to transform cybersecurity as good vs bad GenAI debate rages
Bangkok: As industries, governments and law enforcement agencies all over the world struggle to keep up with the vast and ever-evolving cybercrime ecosystem, specialist cyber defenders building and upgrading firewalls, say that…
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WhatsApp bans over 69L bad accounts in India in December 2023
New Delhi: Meta-owned WhatsApp banned a record over 69 lakh bad accounts in India in the month of December 2023, in compliance with the new IT Rules 2021, the company said on…
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Paytm app will continue to work beyond Feb 29 as usual: CEO Vijay Shekhar Sharma
New Delhi: Digital payments and services app Paytm is working and will continue to work as usual even after February 29, its CEO Vijay Shekhar Sharma said on Friday. The founder and…
