Govt launches desi WhatsApp (Sandes) for babus; Koo at 4 mn users
+ Facebook unfriends Aus; Apple to produce more iPads in India
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Technology leads to India’s recovery post-covid; Indian tech sector rallied to 2.3%: Nasscom Report
It reveals that 60% of CEOs expect larger digitization deals and recovery of investments in core markets.
Indian govt’s WhatsApp alternative “Sandes” launched; requires only a mobile number or govt email ID for sign up
Sandes supports verified accounts for govt employees, unlike WhatsApp. Clearly, JP Dutta saab and Sunny Deol must be happy !
CEO Eric S Yuan: Zoom’s user base increases 70 times in India during the pandemic-induced lockdown
In April alone, the daily meeting participants were at 350 Mn globally.
Ola & Uber taxi numbers has reduced from 1,20,000 to 40,000 on the Hyderabad roads due to new Work from Home culture
1000 drivers unable to pay car installments to bank; flood affected 5000.
Sources: Centre may merge GST rates of 12% and 18% into a single slab
Indian companies plan to give a 7.3% increment to employees, higher than the 4.4% given in 2020.
When Twitter clashes with the Centre, homegrown ‘Koo’ crosses 4 million users within 10 months of launch
Koo became favorite to IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, who initiated the clash with Twitter.
Amazon used Cloudtail, Appario to boost its own sales in India indirectly
Its strategy for Cloudtail was to “Launch, stabilize, grow Special Merchant; make it profitable.
Kavin Bharti Mittal’s Hike messenger now wants to take on Facebook; will raise more funding
He plans on a Facebook-like new social media platform that weeds out “creeps” and “fake profiles”.
Quote of the day:
“Regulation & Policies, risk-taking, upskilling important for making India hub for innovation” - IBM CEO Arvind Krishna
This is essentially, what FWD app enables. Give it a go!
More #GlobalTechNews
Facebook’s ad planning tool deceived advertisers by including ‘fake accounts’ in their potential reach metric: Report
It denies the claim though the litigants continue to accuse of misrepresenting the ad reach estimates.
Apple could soon assemble iPads, lobbies the Indian government for better incentives ahead of the new PLI
Like iPhones, Apple is planning to increase iPads production in India.
Ethereum cryptocurrency surges to 160% amidst bitcoin rally; Nvidia introduces new chips for mining
It was trading up to $1,883.58 around 8%, compared to bitcoin’s 78% surge in the same period. The new type of chip for mining Ethereum is called as Cryptocurrency Mining Processor.
Facebook unfriends Australia; PM Scott Morrison is “Not intimidated” by Facebook’s news feed ban
Morrison calls the move to block news arrogant and disappointing. Canada also wants Facebook to pay for news feed; says it won’t back down even if Facebook bans news.
Uber hires prominent critic Alex Rosenblat to focus on providing right treatments to drivers & combat discrimination
Her role is to consider the point of view of drivers at ‘product level’.
Facebook, Google and Twitter CEOs will testify before Congress in March
Last years lawmakers questioned the three CEOs about their competitive behaviour and censorship.
#RandomlySpeaking
Ram Mandir Trust requests donors “not to donate silver bricks” as their bank lockers are stacked
Over 400 kg of silver bricks and INR 1,600 Cr were donated!!!
Radhakishan Damani’s DMart crosses INR 2 Trillion in market cap, net profit for the Dec quarter was up 16% at INR 447 Cr
E-commerce vertical DMart Ready is also slowly gaining it’s pace.