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Meta, formerly known as Facebook, is set to gain EU antitrust approval for its acquisition of Kustomer after offering remedies that allow rival products to function with those of the U.S. customer service startup, people familiar with the matter said. A buying spree of startups by big companies has triggered concerns on both sides of

WhatsApp on Thursday released a year-end review of 2021 to provide a look back at the key highlights of its new feature launches and services offered in India — its biggest market — throughout the year. The instant messaging app was used by various state governments and civic bodies in the country to provide COVID-19

Netflix recently slashed the cost of its subscription plans in India, bringing the price of all plans down on the streaming service. From the most expensive 4K HDR Premium plan which now costs Rs. 649 down from Rs. 799, to the mobile-only plan that is now Rs. 149 down from 199. Netflix isn’t the only

The Suicide Squad is coming to Amazon Prime Video in India on December 24. The service announced the online premiere date for the hit movie on Wednesday, which will bring the highly-rated soft reboot of Suicide Squad to user’s screens across the country in time for the holidays. The movie will be available in English, Hindi, Telugu

WhatsApp on Tuesday announced the rollout of an ability to let you preview your voice messages before sending them to your contacts. The update essentially helps you listen to your voice message and see if the audio is fine for sharing over the instant messaging app. If it’s not, you can discard your voice message

Google, Facebook and other online services should be held legally accountable for advertisements on their platforms to prevent fraudsters scamming millions of consumers, a cross-party group of British lawmakers has said. Britain has proposed a landmark online safety law to punish abuses such as child pornography, racism and violence against women, but a joint committee

Amazon Prime membership price in India is becoming costlier by up to 50 percent starting tomorrow (Tuesday, December 14). The update, which was confirmed earlier this year, will be applicable to the monthly, quarterly, and annual subscription plans of the Amazon Prime service. As a result, customers will get the annual Prime membership at Rs.

A scuba diver wiped away the algae on a submerged car’s license plate and exclaimed: “It’s them!” That discovery of two long-missing American teens’ apparent remains was the latest tragic find for a subculture of YouTube sleuths. Among the platform’s viral hits scoring billions of views is a niche of YouTubers who use sonar devices

About 15,000 people have registered to attend global tech show CES in person in the past 10 days, the organiser said on Friday, in a sign of momentum for in-person events despite global fears about the Omicron variant of the coronavirus. In total, “tens of thousands” of people have registered so far for the show,

With two-thirds of the year spent indoors thanks to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, pretty much like last year, 2021 saw a continued rise in Indian original content from streaming services (or OTT platforms, if you prefer). There were massive spikes for the likes of Disney+ Hotstar and SonyLIV whose output increased by nearly 300 and

Brazil’s health ministry said its website was hit on Friday by a hacker attack that took several systems down, including one with information about the national immunisation program and another used to issue digital vaccination certificates. The government put off for a week implementing new health requirements for travellers arriving in Brazil due to the

A critical vulnerability in a widely used software tool — one quickly exploited in the online game Minecraft — is rapidly emerging as a major threat to organisations around the world. “The internet’s on fire right now,” said Adam Meyers, senior vice president of intelligence at the cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike. “People are scrambling to patch,”

Instagram has launched a new Playback feature for users on the image and video sharing platform, offering a recap of the best Stories they posted in 2021. The Meta-owned service is offering to show users their top 10 Stories of the year. While Instagram does suggest a set of Stories, users have the option to

Tesla Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk is “thinking of” leaving his jobs and becoming an influencer, the world’s richest man tweeted on Thursday. “thinking of quitting my jobs & becoming an influencer full-time wdyt,” Musk said in the tweet, without elaborating. thinking of quitting my jobs & becoming an influencer full-time wdyt — Elon Musk

Google has released a list of hand-picked Chrome extensions of 2021 that it says helps people continue to virtually stay connected, get things done, and have some fun along the way. There are 12 Chrome extensions in total that are divided into different categories — on the basis of the features they offer. These browser

Amazon announced that it will shut down Alexa.com, its website ranking tool which the company has operated for the past 25 years. The service, which offered a paid subscription with SEO research and analysis tools, will stop providing statistics of websites and their rankings next year. After Alexa Internet is shut down, the service’s API

Google on Wednesday released its 2021 Year in Search report to reveal the top search trends of the year in India and around the world. While cricket continued to top the charts this year with the ‘Indian Premier League’ and ‘ICC T20 World Cup’ emerging on the top spots in the overall list of leading

The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Tuesday warned that interference from planned use of 5G wireless spectrum posed an air safety risk and could result in flight diversions. The aviation industry and the FAA have raised concerns about potential interference of 5G with sensitive aircraft electronics like radio altimeters. AT&T and Verizon in November agreed to

An Indian-origin CEO of a US-based homeownership company has abruptly fired more than 900 employees, about 9 per cent of its workforce, on a Zoom webinar, citing market efficiency, performance and productivity as the reasons behind the move. On a Zoom webinar last Wednesday, Better.com CEO Vishal Garg abruptly announced that the mortgage company is laying off about

Mozilla Firefox 95 update is being rolled out with a new sandboxing technology called RLBox that is touted to enhance the browser’s protection against malicious code. Mozilla says the new technology makes it easy and efficient to isolate potentially buggy code to make the browser secure so much so that even zero-day vulnerabilities in some