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A lawyer representing students in more than a dozen cases says colleges themselves often charge lower rates for online classes, which he says is a reflection of their value. (Photo of Columbia University Library | Publicdomainpictures.et)

Unimpressed by online classes, US students of Brown, Cornell,...

Some class-action lawsuits seeking partial fee refunds from 26 universities say they are sitting on endowments...

4 May 2020 3:45 PM IST

Kirana stores are an unexplored market and there is an opportunity to be tapped. But a first mover advantage does not directly mean victory.

Tech this week | Jio-Facebook's e-commerce monopoly is not a foregone...

Amazon has also made a move to get kirana shops on its platform, and in the coming months it's likely that Flipkart and...

2 May 2020 11:32 PM IST

Xiaomi India Managing Director Manu Kumar Jain said the company does not collect any user data that the user has not explicitly given permission or consent to.

Xiaomi dismisses reports that it collects user data, says it is...

The clarification came after reports that Mi Browser collects unnecessary info while browsing and sends the user data to...

2 May 2020 7:50 PM IST

Dot-org is one of the original domains created in the mid-1980s.

Non-profit organisations' protests successfully stop sale of dot-org...

Protesters said costs for non-profits would rise and freedom of expression be at risk if a for-profit company were in...

2 May 2020 7:27 PM IST

Trump calls the Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post fake news, and a lot of scrutiny that Amazon comes into is attributed to this. However, the US House Judiciary Committee has been investigating Big Tech Companies such as Google, Facebook and Apple on anti-trust and data privacy issues. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has testified in such hearings earlier. Now it is Jeff Bezos turn. (Photo | AFP)

Jeff Bezos may be forced to testify in US House about Amazon's alleged...

US lawmakers on Friday wrote to Bezos saying they would use legal means to force him to appear if he didn't do so...

2 May 2020 3:30 PM IST

Runtastic by Adidas maintains running-related features as its core, but it has also added workouts and also a section for healthy recipes

Talking Tech | Miss your gym, not your workout

There are many handy apps that not just help us be fit but look at overall health and wellbeing.

2 May 2020 12:28 PM IST

While Google makes revenues from its products too, Facebook and Twitter mainly depend on income from ad sales.

Users added aplenty but Google, Facebook, and Twitter lose ad revenues...

As travel and shopping shut down, advertising on the three platforms plummeted, but now as lockdown curbs begin to ease,...

1 May 2020 8:01 PM IST

Overall, the Seattle-based company reported net income of $2.54 billion in the first quarter, compared with $3.56 billion a year ago.

Amazon must have made super profits amid the pandemic right? Wrong,...

Sales are soaring as online grocery shopping grows due to lockdowns but delivering more goods means higher costs cutting...

1 May 2020 12:24 PM IST

Google last year blocked and removed 2.7 billion bad ads and suspended nearly a million advertising accounts for policy violations, according to ads privacy and safety vice president Scott Spencer.

Google blocks tens of millions of ads trying to defraud people looking...

Sharp spike seen in ads offering coveted supplies such as face masks at inflated prices to entice online orders that are...

30 April 2020 2:30 PM IST

Google said in a blog post that it has invested years in making Meet a secure and reliable video conferencing solution thats trusted by schools, governments and enterprises around the world.

Google Meet videoconferencing app now free for all, hopes to draw Zoom...

Google Meet had previously been reserved for subscribers to the premium G Suite software tools for businesses.

29 April 2020 5:37 PM IST

Two years ago, YouTube began testing panels providing vetted sources of information on topics prone to bogus assertions such as the world being flat.

YouTube adds fact-check panels to videos in US to curb spread of...

Fact-check information panels highlight credible findings by third-parties so YouTube viewers can make informed...

29 April 2020 3:13 PM IST

A video grab of the HCARD automated cart in action.

CSIR-CMERI's automated cart enables care workers to deliver food,...

It is fitted with an audio-visual communication device through which instructions are relayed to the receiver of the...

29 April 2020 1:30 PM IST