On Wednesday, the world’s biggest online retailer, Amazon.com Inc, launched an online academy to train students for one of India’s most competitive college entrance tests. The development marks Amazon tapping the virtual learning boom created by the COVID-19 pandemic. The “Amazon Academy” is accessible either as an Android app as well as on a website.…
In a significant development General Motors Co presented a futuristic self-driving vehicle flying Cadillac which can take off and land vertically carrying passenger above streets through the air. A senior GM executive described the concept as “reimagining the future of personal transportation”. The single-passenger Cadillac, which essentially is a vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) drone,…
In a statement PayPal Holdings Inc said it has blocked GiveSendGo, a Christian crowdfunding site which helped raise funds for people who attended last week’s event in Washington after supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump, visited en mass at the Capitol. PayPal confirmed that it has closed an account held by Ali Alexander, one of…
In a statement Swedish telecoms operator Tele2 said, it will partner with Nokia for the deployment of its core 5G network in Sweden and in the Baltics. The new core infrastructure will support both 4G and 5G connectivity, thus allowing higher speeds with lower latencies in the network. “We are proud to be expanding on…
According to a report from South Korean media house IT News, Hyundai Motor and Apple Inc will be signing a partnership deal in the coming weeks on autonomous electric cars. A deal could be on the cards to start their production in the United States sometime in 2024. Earlier last week, another report had said,…
According to two sources familiar with the matter at hand, the U.S. Administration is weighing options to add Tencent and Alibaba to a trade blacklist on the grounds that it is either owned or controlled by the Chinese military. Officials from the Department of Defense who oversee the designations have yet to finalize plans to…
With supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump moving into Capitol grounds, tech companies, including Snap Inc, Twitter Inc and Facebook Inc locked their respective accounts of the U.S. President following allegations of China-backed rigging of the 2020 U.S. Presidential elections. Twitter hid and mandated the removal of three of Trump’s tweets “as a result of…
On Wednesday, in a statement self-driving software startup Oxbotica stated, it had raised $47 million in its latest funding round led by the venture capital arm of BP, Halma Plc, a health and safety device maker, and Tencent. Oxbotica, an Oxford University spinoff, develops autonomous systems that could be used in a range of vehicles…
On Wednesday, the world’s most popular cryptocurrency, touched its zenith of $35,000 for the very first time extending a rally that has seen the digital currency surge by more than 800% since mid-March. Bitcoin touched a high of $35,879 on Wednesday. On December 16, it had breached the $20,000 threshold for the first time.
In a first, more than 200 workers at Google and other Alphabet Inc businesses formed a labor union for U.S. and Canadian offices. They however fell short of the support required to force Alphabet Inc to come to the bargaining table. Backers of the union believe, the “Alphabet Workers Union,” which incidentally evolved from a…
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