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Amazon has become the poster child of technology giants bucking the trend of major conglomerates breaking up, thanks to bright growth prospects shielding it from pressure to follow suit, investors and dealmakers said. Investors have in recent years fallen out of love with conglomerates holding disparate businesses. Many companies have taken note, with General Electric, Johnson

WhatsApp for iOS is reportedly testing the camera media bar feature. The functionality, which allows users to access the photos and videos from the phone quickly was reportedly removed from the previous beta update for unknown reasons. Now, the Meta-owned instant messaging app is bringing back the original scrollable camera media bar. The latest update

Employees at many Apple stores in the United States are working to unionise, the Washington Post reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the efforts. The move comes against the backdrop of unionisation efforts gaining momentum at large US corporations, including Amazon and Starbucks. The report said employee groups at at least two Apple retail stores are

India’s largest mobile operator Reliance Jio Infocomm will land the multi-terabit India-Asia-Xpress (IAX) undersea cable system in Hulhumale, Maldives, according to a statement on Monday. The high capacity and high-speed IAX system will connect Hulhumale directly with world’s major internet hubs in India and Singapore. Jio’s IAX project will land in the Maldives in collaboration

Chinese tech giant Tencent said Friday it strongly disagreed with a US decision to add its WeChat app to a government list of “notorious” markets known for trade in counterfeit goods. WeChat and e-commerce site AliExpress were among those put on the list by the US Trade Representative (USTR) on Thursday spotlighting markets Washington says

US securities regulators responded to allegations that they are harassing Elon Musk, writing in a letter that they’re following a judge’s instructions in trying to speak with the Tesla CEO’s lawyers about his posts on Twitter. In a letter dated Friday, Steven Buchholz of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s San Francisco Office wrote that the

A single activist helped turn the tide against NSO Group, one of the world’s most sophisticated spyware companies now facing a cascade of legal action and scrutiny in Washington over damaging new allegations that its software was used to hack government officials and dissidents around the world. It all started with a software glitch on

Russian military hackers were behind a spate of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks that briefly knocked Ukrainian banking and government websites offline, the United States and the United Kingdom said on Friday. US deputy national security adviser Anne Neuberger told journalists at the White House that Washington was seeking to hold Russia to account

E-commerce sites operated by China’s Tencent Holdings Ltd and Alibaba Group Holding Ltd were included on the US government’s latest “notorious markets” list, the US Trade Representative’s office said on Thursday. The list identifies 42 online markets and 35 physical markets that are reported to engage in or facilitate substantial trademark counterfeiting or copyright piracy.

WhatsApp is testing a feature that will show the full preview of images and videos that are shared as documents on the Android app, as per a new report. Called ‘Document Preview’, the feature will show a large preview of the content sent over the Meta-owned app. The preview feature currently available for PDF files.

Redmi Router AX5400 was launched in China on Wednesday, along with Redmi K50 Gaming Edition. The gaming router from Redmi has a flagship-level 2.5G Ethernet port and has Wi-Fi 6 support. Redmi Router AX5400 also has RGB lighting with 16 million colours. Alongside, the router from the Xiaomi sub-brand has game acceleration plug-ins. Redmi Router

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power — Amazon’s upcoming big-budget series — was recently teased at the Super Bowl in the US on Sunday. The streaming service has revealed that the trailer crossed 257 million views in the first 24 hours, which surpasses any other trailer to debut at the Super Bowl,

Drive to Survive is back very soon. Formula 1 and Netflix have announced that Formula 1: Drive to Survive season 4 will be released on Friday, March 11. The fourth season of the popular docu-series on the world’s top motorsport will cover the dramatic 2021 season that saw Red Bull Racing’s Max Verstappen win his

Google announced plans Wednesday to limit ad tracking on its Android operating system, a sensitive privacy issue that rival Apple has already moved to curtail on its iPhones. Google announced a multi-year plan to develop Privacy Sandbox on Android with the aim of introducing more private advertising solutions. However, Google said it would keep alive for at

Venom: Let There Be Carnage — the sequel to Sony’s popular 2018 movie featuring Tom Hardy as the anti-hero — is set to debut on Netflix in India on March 1, Gadgets 360 has learnt. Naturally, you will need a Netflix subscription to stream it at no extra cost when the second Venom movie arrives

President Joe Biden couldn’t have been more blunt about the risks of cyberattacks spinning out of control. “If we end up in a war, a real shooting war with a major power, it’s going to be as a consequence of a cyber breach of great consequence,” he told his intelligence brain trust in July. Now

MSME minister Narayan Rane on Monday said that his ministry along with e-commerce firm Amazon will work together to enhance production in the country and take quality goods to the people at an affordable price. The minister was speaking after launching India ODOP (one district one product) Bazaar on Amazon India platform. “Amazon and MSME

Uncharted — the new Tom Holland and Mark Wahlberg movie, based on the PlayStation video game franchise of the same name — has leaked onto torrent sites and other networks that enable piracy, in differing versions of quality and file size (from 833MB to 1.96GB). While most copies are arguably genuine, given the attached screenshots