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…
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…
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…
With a sudden surge in downloads and users, the messaging platform Signal faced technical crisis and said that it was experiencing “technical difficulties” even as the firm attempted to upgrade its servers and network. There has been a surge globally in the downloads of the app in recent days after announcement by the Facebook owned…
With the aim of preventing grooming on the platform, the short video sharing app TikTok will impose “groundbreaking” new restrictions on children on the platform and the new rules will be particularly severe for those users who are under the age of 16 years, the Chinese owned company said. Those children users of the platform,…
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