Category: TECHNOLOGY
Reliance Industries Backed Retail Tech Startup Fynd Unveils COVID-19 Theme Game ‘Corona Striker’
Disney+ Makes a Big Bang Entry; Hits 10 Million Subscribers in 24 Hours of its Debut Launch
Disney+, The Walt Disney Company’s brand-new streaming platform, has already achieved a groundbreaking 10 million subscribers since launching. Disney+ will debut with content bundled from Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars and National Geographic. Consumer demand exceeded expectations for Disney as users trying to access Disney+ for the first time felt Disney did not meet their […]
Alibaba’s Singles’ Day Sales Hits $16.3 Billion In less Than 90 Minutes, Touches $28.63 Billion So Far
Alibaba Singles’ Day sales touch $1 billion in 1 minute and Alibaba’s Singles’ Day Sales Hit $10 Billion in Less Than 30 Minutes Over $1 billion in 1:08 minutes and $22.63 billion in the first nine hours – that’s the rate at which Chinese shoppers are spending at Alibaba’s Singles’ Day sale. More than 200,000 […]
IBM Partners Bank of America to Develop World’s First Financial Services-Ready Public Cloud for Banks
IBM, Bank of America collaborate to build financial services-specific cloud. Bank of America and IBM, along with IBM’s regulatory compliance arm Promontory Financial Group, have partnered to build a cloud for banks that has security, privacy and bank-specific regulatory compliance built in. “INDUSTRY CLOUD” in Financial service industry, first of its kind in the constantly […]
Google buys smartwatch maker ‘Fitbit’ for $2.1 billion, to Rival against Apple Watch
Recently, Google has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Fitbit, a leading wearables brand across the globe. Google already has offerings like smartphones, smart speakers, a cloud gaming service, and more in its hardware portfolio. We believe technology is at its best when it can fade into the background, assisting you throughout your day […]
China’s Tencent backs India’s Video Streaming Service MX Player with $111M Investment after OLA, Gaana, Swiggy in India
Video app MX Player has raised $111 million in fresh funding from China’s Tencent and its existing owner Times Internet. The deal is Tencent’s second investment into a Times Internet company, after it backed music-streaming platform Gaana last year. The Series A round, said to be raised at a valuation of $500 million, will help […]
Facebook Wins Exclusive Digital Content Rights for ICC Cricket Events till 2023
The International Cricket Council announced that social media firm Facebook has become the exclusive digital content rights partner for its global events in the Indian sub-continent. Facebook will carry a range of digital content including post-match recaps, in-play key moments and other feature content for a period of four years (2019-2023). Facebook has been betting […]
Apple Buys Intel’s Smartphone Modem Business for 1 Billion Dollar, Which Owns 17,000 Wireless Patents
It is considered as one of the most inevitable deal that has finally gone through in recent times. Technology Giant Apple has acquired the smartphone modem business of Intel for $1 billion. As a part of this strategic deal, around 2,200 Intel employees will be transferred to Apple, along with intellectual property like patents and […]
Unilever’s POND’S Launches World’s First AI-Powered Skin Diagnostic Chatbot
Beauty brand POND’S today had achieved a unique milestone by launching the world’s first AI-powered skin diagnostic chat bot which, using a combination of advanced Artificial Intelligence and skin diagnosis technology, will enable costumers to overcome and solve skincare problems across four main areas — imbalance skin tone, spots, pimples and wrinkles.
Google to build ‘Equiano’; 1st Sub-sea Internet Cable to Connect Europe and Africa
It is now reported that Google’s third private sub-sea cable, Equiano, will connect South Africa to Portugal, traveling through across the west coast of Africa. It is Named after Nigerian-born writer and abolitionist who was enslaved as a boy, Olaudah Equiano, the Europe-to-Africa cable is Google’s fourteenth sub-sea investment across the world and the third […]
Morocco to build World’s Largest Sea Water Desalination Plant
Morocco is set to begin construction of the world’s largest sea water desalination plant in 2021 at the Southern Coastal City of Agadir. Morocco had been working hard from last couple of years to construct the world’s largest desalination plant for drinking water and irrigation, following the signing of phase one of the $352.9m project.The […]
APPLE’S NEW TV APP GOES LIVE ON IPHONE, IPAD, APPLE TV AND SAMSUNG TV’s IN MORE THAN 100 COUNTRIES
APPLE TV APP Apple TV app is reportedly gone live in over 100 countries that includes India, which is available on devices like iPhones, iPads, Apple TVs and all of the Samsung smart TVs. Along with with India, United States, Canada, Nepal, selected African countries, as well as Middle Eastern countries, are also getting Apple’s […]