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Online food delivery platform Zomato on Friday said it will acquire Blink Commerce (formerly known as Grofers India) for a total purchase consideration of Rs 4,447.48 crore in a share swap deal.The company’s board at a meeting held on Friday has approved acquisition of up to 33,018 equity shares of Blink Commerce from its shareholders for

Google has announced the release of Chrome OS 103 for Android, along with the release of Chrome OS Beta 104. The Chrome OS 103 update adds your phone’s camera to the Phone Hub as a row of four recent photos. It also brings the Nearby Share feature on Chromebooks that can now receive Wi-Fi credentials

House of the Dragon key art is here. On Wednesday, HBO shared a new poster from the Game of Thrones spin-off, set two centuries before the events featured on the show, to introduce fans to Australian actress Milly Alcock’s Rhaenyra Targaryen, a dragon rider fighting for the right to occupy the coveted Iron Throne during

Alphabet’s Google and Comcast’s NBCUniversal are leading the race for a tie-up with Netflix to help it create an advertisement-supported subscription plan, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing sources. Comcast‘s video advertisement division, Freewheel, can help Netflix with technology to deliver ads, while NBCUniversal’s sales team can assist the streaming service provider with

Twitter Notes — a feature to let users publish long-form content on the platform — has been in testing and is launching in the coming weeks, according to a report. The reported development was earlier known as Twitter Articles. It would let users express their ideas in detail and share in-depth thoughts on the platform.

Delhi government’s ambitious “Dilli Bazaar” e-portal that will enable shoppers across the globe to have a virtual tour of the city’s key markets and shop on the lines of other e-commerce platforms, will go live in December with 10,000 vendors, an official statement said. Through Dilli Bazaar, the Arvind Kejriwal government aims to bring Delhi’s

The French antitrust authority said on Tuesday it had accepted a series of commitments made by Alphabet’s Google over a copyright law aimed at remunerating news publishers for the use of content online. The authority also said a EUR-500-million (roughly Rs. 4,120 crore) fine it had imposed on Google last year was now definitive, as

TRAI chairman P D Vaghela on Monday exhorted telecom companies and Wi-Fi providers to work collaboratively on developing innovative business models that would unleash combined power of mobile and Wi-Fi technology to improve digital infrastructure. Speaking at an event of Broadband India Forum (BIF), TRAI chief noted that with proposed induction of 5G services, an

A new government order restrict employees from using third-party, non-government cloud platforms including Google Drive and Dropbox as well as virtual private network (VPN) services including NordVPN and ExpressVPN. The order passed by the National Informatics Centre (NIC) has been circulated to all ministries and departments and all government employees are required to comply with

US lawmakers urged Alphabet’s leading Google search engine to give accurate results to people seeking abortions rather than sometimes sending them to “crisis pregnancy centres,” which steer woman away from the procedures. The request came in a letter, whose top signatories were Senator Mark Warner and Representative Elissa Slotkin, sent to Google on Friday and

TikTok said it has completed migrating information on its US users to servers at Oracle, in a move that could address US regulatory concerns over data integrity on the popular short video app. The move, which was first reported by Reuters, comes nearly two years after a US national security panel ordered parent company ByteDance

Ștefania Mărăcineanu, a Romanian physicist, has been honoured on her 140th birthday with a Google doodle. Ștefania was born in 1882 in Bucharest, Romania, and went on to become one of the pioneers in the discovery and research of radioactivity. Mărăcineanu’s PhD thesis was on polonium, an element that physicist Marie Curie discovered. During her

The Russian subsidiary of Alphabet’s Google has submitted a declaration of bankruptcy, Interfax reported on Friday, citing court filings online. The subsidiary announced plans to file for bankruptcy in May after authorities seized its bank account, making it impossible to pay staff and vendors. “The Russian authorities’ seizure of Google Russia’s bank account has made

Microsoft on Thursday announced the availability of new Microsoft Defender app for Microsoft 365 subscribers. Users across Android, iOS, macOS, and Windows devices with Microsoft 365 Personal or Family subscriptions will be able to access the online security app now. The Defender app works as a central hub for managing and monitoring the security status

Contactless payments in India surged by six times in the last three years led by huge growth in adoption by sectors like quick-service restaurants, pharmacies, food, and grocery amid COVID-19 pandemic, as per an industry report released on Thursday, June 16. Contactless payments saw a tremendous surge in recent years, their contribution to total face-to-face

Telecom company Bharti Airtel on Thursday announced the launch of its Fiber-To-The-Home (FTTH) broadband service – Airtel Xstream Fiber – in Ladakh and Andaman & Nicobar Islands. By 2025, Airtel Xstream Fiber plans to scale its footprint to 2000 towns, according to a statement by the company. “Airtel Xstream Fiber expands FTTH network to India’s

Chief executives from Alphabet, Amazon, and Microsoft on Wednesday called on Congress to pass legislation aimed at boosting US economic competitiveness against China, including in chip manufacturing. Those executives and more than 100 others signed a letter urging the US House of Representatives and Senate, which each have passed different versions of the legislation, to reach an

Stranger Things 4 Volume 2 first look photos are out. On Tuesday, Netflix shared eight images from the final two episodes of the popular sci-fi horror series’ fourth and penultimate season. They feature the popular character Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown), who is seen alongside her former handler Dr. Martin Brenner (Matthew Modine). Her intense expressions