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E-commerce firm Amazon India on Friday signed an agreement with the government’s premier agri-research body ICAR to guide farmers enrolled in its ‘Kisan store’ on scientific cultivation of different crops and help them achieve optimum yield and income. A ‘Kisan store’ section was launched on the Amazon platform in September 2021. Farmers can avail of

Nigeria’s markets regulator has ordered the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange Binance to halt its operations in the country, saying a local unit that courted Nigerian investors through a website was illegal. “Binance Nigeria Limited is hereby directed to immediately stop soliciting Nigerian investors in any form whatsoever,” the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said in

An Indian group representing Netflix, Amazon and Disney has told the government its new tobacco warning rules are impossible to implement for streaming giants and will impinge on content creators’ freedom of expression, a letter seen by Reuters showed. As part of India’s anti-tobacco drive, the health ministry last month ordered streaming platforms to insert

Reddit will implement a new API policy on July 1 that would charge excessive fees to developers of third-party apps for the website, thereby resulting in the shutdown of many popular applications such as Reddit is Fun (RIF), Sync for Reddit, Apollo, and ReddPlanet. Apps like BoostForReddit and BaconReader have not outrightly confirmed their shutdown

Summer Game Fest, the tentpole video game showcase event helmed by industry veteran Geoff Keighley, streamed late Thursday night at the YouTube theatre in Los Angeles, raising the curtains on a massive lineup of upcoming titles. There were some that were expected at the event, and then there were some surprise reveals and appearances —

All Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 physical pre-orders will be refunded to customers. After years of silence, publisher Paradox Interactive came forward in a blog post, claiming that its unnamed studio has been hard at work on the RPG horror sequel, while acknowledging that it had been a long time since fans received a

Cyber security company Kaspersky on Wednesday said it has appointed Jaydeep Singh as its general manager for India to head operations in the country. Singh will be responsible for leading Kaspersky’s business operations and driving growth across the country, especially in the enterprise segment, in his role as General Manager for India, the company said

Star Wars: The Old Republic, the long-running space-set MMORPG, is changing studios. EA confirmed that it’s shifting the development and operation of the game from BioWare to a third-party studio, Broadsword Online Games. The latter is best known for its ongoing work on the classic MMOs Ultima Online and Dark Age of Camelot. Broadsword was

India’s internet economy is expected to register six-fold growth and touch $1 trillion (roughly Rs. 82,58,950 crore) by 2030, mainly driven by the e-commerce vertical, a joint report by Google, Temasek, and Bain & Company released on Tuesday said. The report estimates that India’s internet economy was in the range of $155-175 billion in 2022.

The president of Microsoft said he was looking for solutions to try to get British approval for the software giant’s $69 billion (nearly Rs. 5,71,730 crore) acquisition of “Call of Duty” maker Activision Blizzard. British competition authorities blocked the biggest-ever deal in gaming in April, in a shock decision which Microsoft has since appealed. President

Hollywood’s actors union will announce Monday whether their members authorised a possible strike, a move that would turn up the heat on major film and television studios already grappling with a work stoppage by writers. The SAG-AFTRA union set a Monday deadline for its 160,000 members to vote on whether to give their negotiators the

Companies deploying generative AI tools such as ChatGPT and Bard with the potential to generate disinformation should label such content as part of their efforts to combat fake news, European Commission deputy head Vera Jourova said on Monday. Unveiled late last year, Microsoft-backed OpenAI‘s ChatGPT has become the fastest-growing consumer application in history and set

Alphabet’s YouTube said on Friday that the platform would stop removing content that might have spread false claims related to US presidential elections in 2020 and before. The new set of updates is part of YouTube’s elections misinformation policy that will go into effect immediately. “In the current environment, we find that while removing this

Hackers have stolen data from the systems of a number of users of the popular file transfer tool MOVEit Transfer, US security researchers said on Thursday, one day after the maker of the software disclosed that a security flaw had been discovered. Software maker Progress Software Corp, after disclosing the vulnerability on Wednesday, said it

In order to curb the menace of pesky calls and sms, telecom regulator TRAI has directed service providers to develop a unified digital platform in two months to seek, maintain and revoke customers’ consent for promotional calls and messages. In the first phase, only subscribers will be able to initiate the process to register their

Battlegrounds Mobile India, better known as the wildly popular battle royale shooter BGMI, recently returned to iOS and Android platforms in India after a nearly year-long ban. Developers Krafton relaunched the mobile game on May 29 with some playtime restrictions in place. Days after it begins its second life in India, BGMI is now the

E-commerce platform Meesho has become the world’s “fastest shopping app” to cross 500 million cumulative downloads across Google Play and iOS App Store, mobile data analytics provider has said.The company has achieved the 500 million download milestone in six years, data.ai, formerly known as App Annie, said in a statement. According to data.ai, over half

The India and South Asia head of Amazon.com’s cloud division, Puneet Chandok, has resigned with effect from August 31, the company said on Friday. Chandok had taken the helm of Amazon Web Services in June 2019. Vaishali Kasture, currently head of the enterprise for mid-market and global businesses at AWS India and South Asia, would