Polarisation and misinformation on social media was severely criticised by the Chief Executive Officer of Apple Inc, Tim Cook this week. According to analysts, his comments added fuel to an already intense confrontation between the iPhone maker and the largest social media platform of the world Facebook. According to Cook, several apps were liable to…
For the first time in the last 37 years, the international beer company Budweiser will not be sponsoring the Super Bowl and the company’s Clydesdale horses, which have become synonymous with the super event, will not be seen this year. The company said on Monday that the money that it would have otherwise been spent…
With more countries starting to implement mass immunization programs against eth Covid-19 disease, there is a gradual improvement in the outlook for the global aviation industry, said Tony Fernandes, CEO of AirAsia. According to Fernandes, while the airline, one of the largest low budget airlines of Asia, expects to restart operations within “a large part”…
The United States based pharma company and the developer of one of the few Covid-19 vaccines that have gained wide approval – Moderna, has said that it is striving to speed up work for developing a booster dose of the vaccine which will act as a safeguard for the new variant of the novel coronavirus…
The novel coronavirus pandemic has offered an immediate business opportunity to Verily, a healthcare venture of Alphabet Inc and is considered to be one of the most prominent among the “other bets” of the tech giant. In a major shift in its core operations, the company deployed many of its about 1,000 employees, who were…
The potential of the new Covid-19 variant first identified in the United Kingdom to cause more damage than the original one according tp “some evidence”, said British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. “We’ve been informed today that in addition to spreading more quickly, it also now appears that there is some evidence that the new variant…
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has set his sights on a new business segment which is already significantly dominated by existing behemoths – the telecommunications industry. Earlier this month, Musk became the richest person in the world as the electric auto company he had co-founded broke all records to also become the most valued auto company…
A sustained growth in demand for its cleaning products driven by the novel coronavirus pandemic prompted Procter & Gamble Co to raise for the second time its sale forecast for the full year even though the company warned that the roll out of vaccine across the world could slow down the speed of the sales…
Facebook-owned messaging giant WhatsApp has been asked by the Indian government to withdraw its planned alteration of its privacy policy that has faced widespread backlash, claimed multiple reports in India. According to the reports, India’s technology ministry the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology asked the WhatsApp chief Will Cathcart to withdraw the proposed change…
A great deal of confusion and backlash from users of WhatsApp over fears that the messaging app could share a wide range of user data with its parent company Facebook forced the messaging app to delay an announced privacy policy update about sharing of user data. “We’ve heard from so many people how much confusion…
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