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How would these two ideas work? This is a good idea about the idea of a “superapp” and whether a superapp has a chance to succeed in India. And what does the term superapp even mean? Is a pure online composition of unrelated companies with a physical DNA a superapp? Interestingly, even the big tech … Read more
Russian officials on Saturday accused the US video hosting service YouTube of blocking parliament’s channel and warned of reprisals. Vyacheslav Volodin, the head of the Duma, said Washington was violating “Russian rights” while Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said “YouTube has sealed its fate”. “The United States wants a monopoly on the dissemination of information,” … Read more
Google has reportedly removed several apps from its Play Store after the company discovered that these apps collected users’ personal data, including location, phone numbers and email addresses. Google said it regularly “takes appropriate action” against apps that do not comply with its policies. Google recently removed six apps infected with Sharkbot antitrust software from … Read more
Twitter plans to hold a meeting for employees who are concerned about Tesla’s CEO Elon Musk’s influence on the company’s board, a Twitter spokesperson said on Friday. The Twitter official did not disclose the time frame or format of the meeting. The social media company appointed Musk to the board on Tuesday after the outspoken … Read more
The official Twitter handle for the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister’s Office was hacked late on Friday night, a senior official said. He said the hackers sent out 400-500 tweets from the account. “The account was hacked for about 29 minutes at night. The hackers posted about 400-500 tweets, and the account was shut down due … Read more
Google has reportedly removed six apps infected with the Sharkbot bank robbery software from the Google Play Store. The apps were downloaded 15,000 times before being thrown out of the store. All six apps were designed to pose as antivirus solutions for Android smartphones and were designed to select targets using a geofencing feature and … Read more
“Please help / support our warriors”, wrote a Chennai technician who became a Zomato delivery worker for a few days in a post on LinkedIn, explaining the challenges he faced during his short experience. Srinivasan Jayaraman, who recently left his job as an IT analyst at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), joined Zomato for two days … Read more
Amazon accused the new union at a warehouse in New York of threatening workers if they did not vote to organize, a claim that a labor group lawyer called “really absurd.” A second working group, the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU), which lost a bid to organize an Amazon warehouse in Alabama, also … Read more
Dozens of Chinese companies have built software that uses artificial intelligence to sort data collected about residents, amid high demand from authorities who want to upgrade their monitoring tools, a review of government documents from Reuters shows. According to more than 50 publicly available documents reviewed by Reuters, dozens of entities in China over the … Read more
Market research firm Check Point Research has discovered six Android apps in the Google Play Store that spread malware to banks by presenting themselves as antivirus apps. Malware detected in these apps is called “Sharkbot”, which is known for stealing credentials and banking information from Android users. According to Check Point Research, 62 percent of … Read more