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Vietnam-based startups made up 18 percentor $741 millionof the capital invested in Southeast Asia in 2019, up from four percent in 2018, according to a report by Cento Ventures.

Vietnam's huge pool of software engineers makes Ho Chi Minh City a...

Vietnamese e-commerce and e-payment companies have been flooded with private equity in the past couple of years.

12 July 2020 8:48 PM IST

One Chinese companys loss maybe anothers gain as Times Groups Gaana, backed by Tencent, looks to mop up users left behind when ByteDances TikTok was forced to exit the Indian market. (Photo | Gaana.com)

Despite competition from Chingari, Roposo, Gaana hopes to get TikTok's...

Hotshots by Gaana gives Indian users tools to create and share short viral videos and stories like on TikTok.

12 July 2020 7:22 PM IST

Unless companies are willing to invest in continuous development, and selling of such applications across borders, many may not go beyond infancy and not see the light of the day, an industry expert says.

User engagement essential for desi apps to beat the banned Chinese...

An app is only as good as its active user base, so it's not downloads but active users that make it a hit.

12 July 2020 6:33 PM IST

Global giants Ericsson, Nokia and Samsung, as well as Chinese vendors Huawei and ZTE are the large players in the Indian telecom market where rapid digitisation and massive data needs are driving network scale-up.

Ericsson India hopes to fill Telecom space that might not be open to...

Apart from 4G infrastructure, telecom firms are keenly interested in being a part of 5G trials and mega 5G networks...

12 July 2020 5:37 PM IST

There is a strong tendency within the Government to view data as a national asset, akin to say, the Indian Railways. This has been an inherent line of reasoning in multiple draft and actual policies. (Photo | Pixabay - Gerd Altmann)

Tech This Week | Data is not national wealth, must not be regulated in...

Value is derived from data is because it is shared. That's a key reason why technology evolved into a multi-trillion...

11 July 2020 9:33 PM IST

In addition to the porn, the police said the youths also exchanged gore videos from the dark web. (Photo | Pixabay - Gerd Altmann)

WhatsApp, Telegram used to share child porn, suicide videos among...

Police said they were tipped off to the images by the mother of a 15-year-old boy who found them on her son's phone.

11 July 2020 9:07 PM IST

The punitive duties of 25% on $1.3 billion in French cosmetics, handbags will be delayed till January 6, 2021 as discussions continue.

US hits back at France with tariffs on cosmetics, handbags for taxing...

The office of US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said France's digital services tax unfairly targets US digital...

11 July 2020 7:21 PM IST

Facebook software that allows you to login to Spotify, Tinder, Pinterest blamed for apps crashing

Facebook software that allows you to login to Spotify, Tinder,...

The crashes Friday happened even if users were not logged in to the apps using Facebook.

11 July 2020 6:17 PM IST

Compared to Zoom, Libero has additional features like white board, meeting notes and noise cancellation, the developer said, adding that it was also more secure.

Southern startup Soulpage wins government funding to develop...

Finalist in a competition run by the Union government, the developer receives Rs 15 lakh from the Ministry of...

11 July 2020 5:28 PM IST

School students in Minnesota protest in front of a billboard advertising gay conversion therapy in 2015. (Photo | Medium James Finn - The Blog)

Quackery not allowed: Posts claiming to change gays' sexual...

The move is an extension of an existing ban on ads that promote conversion therapy, which medical experts consider...

11 July 2020 4:13 PM IST

Protesters link arms while facing off against a police officer near the district attorneys office Thursday, July 9, 2020, in Salt Lake City. Two police officers in Utah were cleared earlier Thursday in the death of Bernardo Palacios-Carbajal, an armed man shot at more than 30 times as he ran from police, a decision that prompted his grieving family to heighten their calls for systematic changes to law enforcement. (Photo | AP)

Server of Wikileaks-like whistleblower collective seized in Germany...

DDoSecrets founder Emma Best said the data, dubbed BlueLeaks, comes from more than 200 agencies.

10 July 2020 9:33 PM IST

An artist concept of NASAs Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission. (Image | NASA/JPL)

Missions to Mars have been sent since the 1960s, here's where we are...

Three missions to the Red Planet are scheduled in July, by UAE, China and the United States.

10 July 2020 8:17 PM IST