Technology
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India sees rise in hiring for AI roles, healthcare in January: Report
New Delhi: Hiring for AI-related roles along with sectors like healthcare, hospitality, and FMCG has witnessed significant growth in January in India, a new report revealed on Tuesday. According to the Naukri…
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Samsung’s unionised workers call for 5.4% wage hike
Seoul: Unionised workers representing 11 labour unions affiliated with Samsung Group on Tuesday called for an average 5.4 per cent wage increase for this year. The Samsung Group Labor Unions Solidarity unveiled…
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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…
