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US court asks ISRO's commercial arm to pay USD 1.2 bn to Bengaluru startup

A United States court has asked Antrix Corporation, the commercial arm of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), to pay compensation...

India joins six-country campaign led by UK against social media encryption

India is among seven countries to join a UK-led campaign against end-to-end encryption of messages by social media giants such as Facebook,...

Google announces "end of office" with Google Workspace

Google Cloud has announced Google Workspace, which brings together messaging, meetings, docs, and tasks in an integrated experience.

Supreme Court ruling sets stage for adoption of Bitcoin economy in India

The idea of making transactions with various types of cryptocurrencies has taken the world by storm. However, it presents its own set of...

British-Indian minister Alok Sharma announces government investment to tackle space debris

United Kingdom's Indian-origin Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Alok Sharma confirmed a GBP 1-million...

Honouring Indian-American astronaut Kalpana Chawla, US company names spacecraft after her

United States' aerospace, defence, and security company Northrop Grumman has named its NG-14 Cygnus spacecraft after NASA Indian-American...

Experience 5G at Singtel's unmanned pop-up retail store

Singtel has switched on 5G connectivity at 5G Now@UNBOXED, its 24/7 unmanned pop-up retail store.

India, US, Israel to cooperate in developing 5G technology: US official

India, Israel and the United States have begun collaboration in developmental area, and in next generation of emerging technologies,...

India's smartphone market, the second-largest in the world, gets mobile app innovations boost

India recently surpassed the United States to become the second-largest smartphone market in the world, trailing only China. In fact, there...

Google announces USD 4.5 bn investment in Reliance Jio

In the first investment from the Google For India Digitisation Fund announced earlier this week, Google announced a multi-billion dollar...

Google's Sundar Pichai announces USD 10 bn investment in India's digital economy sector

Google and Alphabet's Indian-origin CEO Sundar Pichai at the company’s sixth edition of Google for India event announced a ‘Google for...

India bans 60 Chinese apps following border dispute

Amid escalating border tensions with China, India’s government has banned nearly 60 Chinese mobile apps, including popular video-sharing...

Indian-origin Prabhakar Raghavan appointed head of Google Search

American tech giant Google has appointed Indian-origin tech executive Prabhakar Raghavan as the new head of its Search and Assistant...

Google makes video conferencing tool free for all, accommodates up to 100 people

Google has re-engineered its video conferencing tool Google Meet, originally built for secure business meetings, to make it free and...

SensorFlow raises USD 8.3 Million in Series A+ funding

Singapore-based startup, SensorFlow has raised USD 8.3 million in Series A+ funding, to advance its solutions and for international...

Indian Supreme Court overturns central bank ban against cryptocurrency traders

The Supreme Court of India on Wednesday overturned a ban against cryptocurrency traders imposed by the Reserve Bank of India in April 2018.

Indian-origin Arvind Krishna to be new IBM CEO

Indian-origin executive Arvind Krishna, 57, is set to take charge of International Business Machines Corp (IBM) from April after its Chief...

Microsoft, Google on opposite sides of debate over EU proposal to temporarily ban facial-recognition tech

Microsoft and Google came down on opposite sides of the European Union proposal to temporarily ban facial-recognition technology.

Twitter to ban all political ads ahead of 2020 US election

Twitter's new rules will be applied globally, published by mid-November and take effect later in the month.

Google Pixel 4 boasts of more powerful camera, motion sensor, new apps

The Google Pixel 4 will be available in Singapore from October 24, at Google's official carrier partner, StarHub, retailers COURTS and...

Winners are the ones who are not afraid to take risks, says Modi at Singapore-India Hackathon 2019

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi encouraged participants at the Singapore-India Hackathon 2019 at IIT-Madras in Chennai on Monday and...

Eros Now announces Microsoft team-up for new video content platform

Global Indian entertainment company Eros Now on Thursday announced plans to build a digital media service.

Indian startups to head to London for tech summit next week

Indian startups will get their chance to showcase their specialities in the United Kingdom (UK) market as TechXchange, a programme aimed to...

Facebook’s dating feature goes live in 20 countries, including USA and Singapore

Facebook Dating is the social media giant’s latest feature and is currently restricted to 20 countries.