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The TikTok creator fund will be open in August to US applicants 18 years or older who have a platform following, and post original content in line with its community guidelines. (Photo | AP)

Microsoft hopes to gain social media cred with TikTok purchase

Microsoft has had limited success in social media, although it did acquire the business-focused network LinkedIn.

5 Aug 2020 6:13 PM IST

In November last year Google announced it had reached agreement to buy Fitbit, which produces wearable fitness trackers and watches that communicate with a health monitoring app.

Google's plan to buy Fitbit comes under lens of EU competition...

Google has an operating system for smartwatches so Fitbit's user data will strengthen its already powerful position in...

4 Aug 2020 10:47 PM IST

The H-1B visa, most sought-after among Indian IT professionals, is a non-immigrant visa that allows US companies to employ foreign workers in speciality occupations that require theoretical or technical expertise. It is said that 70 per cent of H-1B visas are awarded to Indians.

H-1B workers now can't be employed in US federal jobs following...

The move follows the June 23 suspension of H-1B and other foreign work visas until end 2020 to safeguard American jobs...

4 Aug 2020 9:59 PM IST

Google has been unable to make significant inroads as a device maker so far, despite generally positive reviews for the devices, especially their cameras. So one will have to wait and see whether the Google Pixel 4a will beat the Apple iPhone SE in sales.

Google's affordable Pixel 4a launched to compete with Apple iphone SE

At $349, the Pixel 4a is even cheaper than the launch price of last year's model which was priced at $399, same as this...

4 Aug 2020 9:19 PM IST

Some Republican leaders, including House Minority Whip, have written to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo saying they suspect that Microsoft, which is in talks to buy the US operations of TikTok, though a US company, may be compromised.

Trump says US should get a 'very large percentage' of TikTok sale...

The US president has set a deadline of September 15 for TikTok to sell its US business or stop operations in the...

4 Aug 2020 8:20 PM IST

Renault, Orange, Deutsche Bank, and Lufthansa recently plumped for Google Cloud. Volkswagen signed up with Amazon Web Services. The French health ministry chose Microsoft to house its research data.

Europe giving away its data wealth to US cloud storage companies,...

The majority of European data is stocked outside of Europe, or, if stocked in Europe, is on servers that belong to...

4 Aug 2020 7:10 PM IST

The feature-packed Noise ColorFit NAV is great for those who need a bit of motivation to get fit.

At Rs 3,999, the Noise ColorFit NAV fitness tracking smartwatch is a...

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4 Aug 2020 5:02 PM IST

Following a conversation between Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and President Donald J Trump, Microsoft is prepared to continue discussions to explore a purchase of TikTok in the United States, the company said in a statement. With TikTok, Microsoft will be making its first foray into social media, a sphere that has grown as people seek to connect amid the restrictions imposed by the pandemic on physical interactions. (Photo | AFP)

Microsoft keen on buying TikTok US, hopes to convince Trump against...

Tech giant says will build on the experience TikTok users love, while adding world-class security, privacy, and digital...

3 Aug 2020 10:54 AM IST

Pressure has been growing both from the right and the leftand sometimes internallyto do something about the overwhelming dominance of the internet platforms. In this photo, Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai, Tim Cook and Jeff Bezos. The four CEOs on Wednesday attended an antitrust hearing of the US House Judiciary Committee. (Photo | AFP)

Tech This Week | What we learned from the US antitrust inquiry

Lawmakers seem to be catching up with technology and so will regulation, so Big Tech should not take things for granted.

1 Aug 2020 4:17 PM IST

Twitter hackers who carried out Bitcoin scam arrested, one a teen, and...

They scammed people of more than USD 100,000 dollars worth bitcoin by hacking Twitter accounts of celebrities and...

1 Aug 2020 2:57 AM IST

If Microsoft were to buy TikTok, there would be no ban on TikTok in the US. (Photo | AFP)

TikTok's US operations could be bought by Microsoft, say reports

Microsoft a leading buyer, report New York Times and Bloomberg as Trump likely to order ByteDance to sell or face a ban...

1 Aug 2020 2:29 AM IST

Reliance Jio is working along with Google to bring out an affordable smartphone to get 300 million people in India to migrate from their feature phones to Jio smartphones. (Representative Image)

25 years since 2G, Mukesh Ambani wants the network to be relegated to...

2G era feature phones have kept around 30 crore subscribers away from basic internet services, Ambani said.

31 July 2020 8:10 PM IST