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TikTok CEO Kevin Mayer's resignation comes after US President Donald Trump ordered a ban on TikTok, unless parent company Bytedance sells its US operations to an American company within 90 days. Just days ago, TikTok filed a lawsuit challenging a crackdown by the US government over claims that the wildly popular social media app can be used to spy on Americans. (Photo | Pixabay/AP)

TikTok CEO resigns amid Trump administration's accusations of spying, order to sell US operations

In a letter to employees, Kevin Mayer said that his decision to leave comes after the “political environment has sharply changed.”

27 Aug 2020 12:33 PM

A FASTag is a device that employs Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology for making toll payments directly from the prepaid or savings account linked to it and is affixed on the windscreen of the vehicle and enables the commuter to drive through toll plazas, without stopping for cash transactions. (Representative Image | Wikimedia Commons - Patrick Roque)

Go cashless on the highway with FASTag if you want discounts on toll rates

The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways is trying to get more people to adopt digital payments, instead of cash.

26 Aug 2020 8:45 PM

Positions for engineers, data scientists and financial analysts are among the tech and non-tech roles that Paytm is looking to fill.

Paytm expanding despite pandemic, hiring over 1,000 people in various roles

The financial technology company is ramping services such as lending, insurance, wealth management and offline payments.

26 Aug 2020 7:27 PM

Uber auto rental service in now live in Bengaluru and is available in Delhi NCR, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Chennai and Pune. (Photo | uber.com)

You can now hire an Uber auto in Mumbai, Pune and four other cities at an hourly rate

Prices start at Rs 169 for a one-hour/10 km package. You can pick from multiple hourly packages but be prepared to pay hard cash.

26 Aug 2020 6:40 PM

For decisions on removing content on violent extremism and content endangering child safety, YouTube tolerated a lower level of accuracy that resulted in a tripling of the number of videos pulled for breaking those rules, it said.

Triple the number of YouTube videos removed for endangering child safety, promoting extremism

Software relied on this quarter to “cast a wider net so that content that could potentially harm the community would be quickly removed.”

26 Aug 2020 4:01 PM

Facebook News, which the company says has been driving a significant amount of online traffic to publishers, is expanding to Brazil, Britain, France, Germany, and India within six months. (Photo | Mr Seb)

Facebook planning to pay Indian news publishers for displaying their content

“We’ll pay news publishers to ensure their content is available in the new product,” a Facebook official said in a blog post.

26 Aug 2020 1:33 PM

In June last year, Flipkart had said it aims to replace nearly 40 per cent of delivery vans of Ekart, its logistics unit, with electric vehicles by March 2020, and that it was running pilots in Delhi, Bengaluru and Hyderabad. Volvo is one of the automakers that have been producing and operating heavy duty electric trucks as cities in Europe and the US as they go green. (Representative Image | volvotrucks.in)

Flipkart promises to switch to a full electric vehicle fleet by 2030

It has joined Climate Group’s EV100 initiative to transition to electric vehicles and make electric transport the new normal by 2030.

25 Aug 2020 7:56 PM

In this image taken from video, Pavin Chachavalpongpun, administrator of Facebook page "Royalist Marketplace" group which has been recently blocked by Facebook in Thailand, is shown delivering a pre-recorded message onscreen before a crowd attending an anti-government rally on August 10, 2020, at Thammasat University in Pathum Thani, Thailand. The group engages in open discussion about the Thai monarchy, an institution that is staunchly protected from criticism by strict laws. (Photo | AP)

Facebook removes pro-democracy group on Thai government's order, says will pursue legal action

The private Facebook group created in April had more than a million members before it was taken down Monday.

25 Aug 2020 6:18 PM

“You become so accustomed to the software working, then (when it doesn’t) you realise how dependent you are on the software and it’s a little scary,” a Zoom user said. (Photo | Pixabay - Mohamed Hassan)

US descends into brief chaos as Zoom outage brings online schooling to a halt

Schools, governments and offices depend on Zoom for their operations, and everything grinds to a halt without this ‘essential utility’.

25 Aug 2020 4:57 PM

Facebook has agreed to pay tax its French operations over a 10-year period from 2009, and to pay 50 percent more tax in the current year. The dispute between France and the United States on the digital giants’ tax had escalated to the extent that the United States in July unveiled heavy import duties on France. Many American technology firms have their EU headquarters in low-tax-regime countries. (Photo | Flickr - Jimmy Baikovicius)

Facebook agrees to pay 106 million euros to France in retrospective tax for past 10 years

Payment of tax by US tech giants in countries where they earn revenue has been the subject of a longstanding conflict between France and US.

24 Aug 2020 10:19 PM

The record speed was achieved by transmitting data through a much wider range of colours of light, or wavelengths, than is typically used in optical fibre, the researchers said.

You can download Netflix entirely in a second at the record internet speed these scientists achieved

Researchers from University College London achieved a data transmission rate of 178 terabits a second—five times faster than previous record

24 Aug 2020 9:34 PM

“Apple’s discontinuation of Epic’s ability to develop and support Unreal Engine for iOS or macOS will harm game creators and gamers,” wrote Kevin Gammill, Microsoft’s general manager of gaming developer experiences. (Photo | AFP)

XBox maker Microsoft on Epic Games' side, says Apple’s actions will affect game creators

Apple threatened to cut off access to tools needed to maintain “Unreal Engine”, Epic’s software used by many game studios to create graphics

24 Aug 2020 5:47 PM

Apple under Tim Cook has also faced government investigations into its aggressive efforts to minimize its corporate taxes and complaints that it has abused control of its app store to charge excessive fees and stifle competition to its own digital services. (Photo | AP)

Apple’s growth into $2 trillion behemoth under Tim Cook tainted by accusations of unfair dominance

He turned App Store into the cornerstone of a services division that earns $50 billion yearly, more than all but 65 firms in the Fortune 500

24 Aug 2020 4:44 PM

The Facebook-owned messaging platform will test out the new feature for glitches among a select few who have opted to be beta testers, before releasing a full-fledged version for general users.

Advanced search being tested in Whatsapp's latest beta update

Facebook Messenger Rooms has also been integrated into the app.

23 Aug 2020 11:45 PM

The lawsuit would argue that President Trump's far-reaching action is unconstitutional because it failed to give the company a chance to respond, NPR reported two weeks ago quoting a source. (Photo | AFP)

Due process not followed, says TikTok, to file suit against Trump administration's actions

The US government tried to insert itself into negotiations between private businesses, ByteDance said.

23 Aug 2020 7:06 PM

The lawsuit says a ban on the app would violate its US users’ freedom of speech, free exercise of religion and other constitutional rights. (Photo | Pexels - Sinchen.Lin)

Trump sued by US WeChat users who say his order violates their constitutional rights

US WeChat Users Alliance says many American Chinese people rely on the app for work, worship and staying in touch with relatives in China.

23 Aug 2020 4:46 PM

The app hopes to get businesses back on their feet without the fear of COVID-19 spreading on their premises on reopening since the lockdown. (Photo | Pixabay - Markus Winkler)

Reopening businesses encouraged to use Aarogya Setu to check health status of staff, other users

The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology says only names and health status of consenting users will be shared with employers.

22 Aug 2020 8:44 PM

KhaaliJeb is currently offering one month’s free membership if you refer a friend. You can also purchase a three-month membership of their discount programme at an offer price of Rs 49. Seen here, the KhaaliJeb team which includes Rahul Kumar, Pratham Devang, Sudhanshu Gaur, Sumit Sinha, Vishal Kumar, Wilson Birua, Aman Verma, and Prakash Kumar. (Photo | KhaaliJeb)

Almost broke? Get thrifty or get aboard KhaaliJeb's youth-focused discount programme

Payments app KhaaliJeb’s ‘Verify by KhaaliJeb’ helps businesses identify genuine student customers and run discount campaigns for them.

22 Aug 2020 8:02 PM

Epic also encouraged players to express their displeasure with Apple on Twitter using the #FreeFortnite hashtag. Seen here the start of the 2019 Fortnite World Cup Finals - Round Two on July 27, 2019. (Photo | AFP)

Epic Games hosts ‘FreeFortnite’ tournament in campaign against Apple monopoly

Prizes include a virtual “Tart Tycoon” outfit featuring an apple head, sunglasses and condescending frown, Epic said taking a dig at Apple.

22 Aug 2020 4:44 PM

The CCI’s basis for dismissal of the anti-trust case against Whatsapp is that UPI payments apps are an evolving market. But it does not appreciate the power of network effects and convenience enough. Yes, the payments feature is not going to be coerced onto users, but if Facebook’s history is anything to go by, it might not make a difference.

Tech This Week | The UPI payments space is in for its biggest shift yet

Earlier this week, the Competition Commission of India dismissed an anti-trust case against WhatsApp Pay.

22 Aug 2020 2:45 PM

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