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He succeeds Ajit Balakrishnan, who has led the company since its founding in 1996

Updated : Oct 4, 2024

Infibeam founder Vishal Mehta becomes Rediff’s new Chairman and Managing Director

He succeeds Ajit Balakrishnan, who has led the company since its founding in 1996. This leadership change follows Infibeam Avenues Ltd's acquisition of a majority stake in Rediff.com.

Most internet users use internet to enjoy OTT services

Updated : Feb 27, 2024

86% use internet to enjoy OTT services in India: IAMAI-Kantar report

For the first time, there are more people accessing video content over internet-only devices – 208 million – than over conventional television – 181 million.

IBM is contemplating using a chip called the Artificial Intelligence Unit as part of its new "watsonx" cloud service.

Updated : Jul 12, 2023

IBM mulls using its own AI chip in new cloud service to lower costs

IBM has joined other tech giants such as Alphabet's Google and Amazon.com in designing its own AI chips.

Standard Chartered published a $100,000 end-2024 forecast for bitcoin back in April on the view the so-called "crypto winter" was over, but one of the bank's top FX analysts, Geoff Kendrick, said there was now 20% "upside" to that call.

Updated : Jul 11, 2023

Standard Chartered boosts 2024 bitcoin forecast to $120,000

Bitcoin's price has leapt 80% since the start of the year but its current level of just over $30,200 is still less than half the $69,000 it peaked back in November 2021.

Updated : Jun 19, 2023

Regulating AI is not easy, and China might be the only country ready to take the leap; this tech expert explains why

Business Today caught up with Jaspreet Bindra, founder of Tech Whisperer and a scholar at University of Cambridge, where he is researching AI. Bindra points out that at present, only China has the vision and ability to regulate AI.

The proposed legislation aims to establish a framework for data protection in the country by regulating the collection, storage, processing and transfer of personal data by organisations and government agencies alike.

Updated : Jun 2, 2023

BT Tech Today Congress: Lawmakers discuss best way forward for data, privacy protection

BJP’s Tejasvi Surya, Priyanka Chaturvedi of Shiv Sena (UBT) along with former Rajya Sabha member Rajeev Gowda of the Congress highlight the issues around regulating data while ensuring that privacy is not compromised

Updated : Apr 23, 2023

'Demographics is destiny': Elon Musk as India set to surpass China as most populous country

This demographic factor is considered by many experts as a potential advantage for India's economic growth in the future. However, the experts believe that to maximise the benefits of the demographic dividend, the Indian government must implement strong policies.

The Chairman of Reliance Jio Infocomm today said the telecom major has launched 5G service in 277 cities across the nation, with the largest deployment of more than 40,000 sites within five months

Updated : Mar 1, 2023

India will have the world’s fastest 5G rollout, will beat US, claims Akash Ambani

The Chairman of Reliance Jio Infocomm today said the telecom major has launched 5G service in 277 cities across the nation, with the largest deployment of more than 40,000 sites within five months

Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp down for many users

Updated : Jan 26, 2023

Meta's social media apps, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp down for thousands of users

Meta outage: Outages of Big Tech platforms are not uncommon as several companies ranging from Google to Microsoft have seen service disruptions.

Social commerce is poised for rapid growth in India

Updated : Jan 7, 2023

All you need to know about India’s social commerce growth in 2023

When it comes to online sales, the trend is increasingly shifting from e-commerce to social commerce. Social commerce is poised to make a significant dent into e-commerce in 2023, suggest experts.

Digital sale of apartments likely to increase in India

Updated : Dec 23, 2022

Indian proptech companies hope for increased digital sales of homes in 2023

House sales are set to increase in 2023 and India is looking at expanding scope for real estate technology. According to experts, the proptech market's value is pegged to touch $1 trillion by 2030.

Ishwar Sridharan - Co-founder, and COO, of Exotel, said that the licence represents a paradigm shift in the migration of business processes to the cloud in India.

Updated : Nov 14, 2022

Exotel receives pan-India licence from DoT to offer cloud-based customer engagement solutions for remote working

Earlier this year, the company received the same licence for the Karnataka circle. Exotel powers communication for enterprises, start-ups and small and medium enterprises and has over 6000 clients across India, the Middle East, Southeast Asia and Africa.

Updated : Oct 18, 2022

New Netflix Profile Transfer feature could be a final warning for freeloaders

Netflix has announced that the new feature will roll out to all members around the world starting today. The user will be notified by email

Even though users have been blocked from taking screenshots of media, they can take screenshots of conversations even if they have the disappearing messages feature turned on.

Updated : Oct 5, 2022

This WhatsApp feature won't let you take screenshots

Due to this feature, users cannot take a screenshot of the media shared with them and also cannot forward, export, save or view the images or other media.

5G refers to the fifth generation of cellular technology.

Updated : Aug 25, 2022

These 13 Indian cities will get 5G services first, details here

According to India's 5G spectrum auction data, Reliance Jio emerged as the highest bidder; followed by Bharti Airtel.

Updated : Aug 9, 2022

Google back up after brief outage

Reports of the outage dropped to less than 500 incidents in the United States, as per Downdetector, which collates status reports from a number of sources.

Updated : Aug 9, 2022

Google down for thousands of users

There were more than 40,000 incidents of people reporting issues with the world's largest search engine.

Updated : Feb 18, 2022

Open world metaverse platform Bullieverse raises $4 mn

Co-founded by core gaming enthusiasts, Bullieverse is providing a new terrain in the digital economy through its open met averse.

DoT had announced last year that 13 cities in India are going to get 5G first before it rolls out more widely

Updated : Feb 1, 2022

Budget 2022: India’s 5G rollout planned for 2022-2023

5G spectrum auctions are also going to happen this year, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said during her budget speech.

One of the key criticisms against Web 3.0 is that the decentralisation is going to make the internet difficult to regulate.

Updated : Dec 30, 2021

Spinning out the third web: What is Web 3.0 and why are tech titans bickering over it

Besides cryptocurrency, metaverse, etc., one of the other keywords for the year was Web 3.0. But what is it exactly and why does it matter?

It noted that the suspension of telecom services and the internet frequently affected life and liberty of people.

Updated : Dec 2, 2021

Centre must avoid frequent internet suspensions, says Parliamentary panel

The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Technology, in its report, called for defining the parameters and a "robust mechanism" for internet shutdown.