Representational image of a person walking next to the Google Cloud logo. Google Cloud has criticised Microsoft for its cloud computing practices. | Photo Credit: Reuters Alphabet’s Google Cloud has accused Microsoft of anti-competitive cloud computing practices and criticised imminent deals with European cloud vendors, saying these do not solve broader concerns about its licensing […]
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Dinesh Raj, who lives in Salem, Tamil Nadu, treasures his account on microwork website Amazon Mechanical Turk, even if competition for data annotation tasks on the crowdsourced platform is high, and the pay is low. The 30-year-old, who has an engineering degree, has struggled to find a well-paid job, and relies on the platform for […]
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Representational image | Photo Credit: Reuters Zoom Video Communications Inc on Monday lowered its annual revenue forecast amid waning demand for the video conferencing platform as pandemic restrictions ease and competition amps up. After recording blistering growth during the pandemic, Zoom, which competes with WeChat Work, Microsoft Teams, Cisco WebEx and Slack, is facing a […]
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A group of small tech companies this week will launch an advertising campaign urging lawmakers to pass landmark legislation that would diminish the power of the country’s largest internet giants. The small companies, which compete with Alphabet Inc.’s Google, Amazon.com Inc., Apple Inc. and Meta Platforms Inc., are hoping to push Congress to pass the […]
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India’s smartphone market fell by 10% year-on-year last quarter to 43.5 million units, marking the lowest third-quarter shipment since 2019, and a high inventory pile-up is expected to lead to a muted fourth quarter, market research firm IDC said on Monday. Despite the festival season beginning earlier than usual, the unrelenting rise in prices pulled […]
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With inflation still roaring, it is a hard time to make a case for the value of central banks. But the boy wizards of cryptocurrency have done it. The great benefit of crypto was said to be decentralization. This was accompanied by all manner of gasbagging about the liberating power of money unhinged from the […]
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A number of employees who are part of Apple’s search team have reportedly left the company to join Google in a setback to the former’s ambitions to develop a search engine that rivals the latter. According to a report by The Information, the employees who had left were founders of the company Laserlike, which Apple […]
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Existing subscribers will still have access to their account, said the person who asked not to be identified because the information is private. The move was reported earlier by the website Platformer. The company has also reinstated “official” badges for high-profile accounts, with the gray badge reappearing below the profiles of businesses and major media […]
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A day after Elon Musk-led Twitter began mass layoffs, firing half of the company’s 7,500 staff, the company’s founder Jack Dorsey apologized to the employees of the company and said that he took the “responsibility for why everyone is in this situation”. Dorsey tweeted: “Folks at Twitter past and present are strong and resilient. They […]
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Twitter will tell employees by email on Friday about whether they have been laid off, temporarily closing its offices and preventing staff access, following a week of uncertainty about the company’s future under new owner Elon Musk. The social media company said in an email to staff that it will alert employees by 9 a.m. […]
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