Jio 5G to be available from 2021
+ Flipkart IPO, UPI Market Share..and more
Jio 5G to be available from 2021, confirms Mukesh Ambani
"India is today among the best digitally connected nations in the world. In order to maintain this lead, policy steps are needed to accelerate the early rollout of 5G, and to make it affordable and available everywhere. I assure you that JIO will pioneer the 5G Revolution in India in the second half of 2021. It will be powered by the indigenous-developed network, hardware and technology components."
Amazon Prime Video Customers can now launch Watch Party, i.e. watch a movie/show with friends.
Watch party provides synchronized playback which the host controls, and a chat feature to communicate with participants. Watch Party will accommodate up to 100 participants per session.
FYI: Each participant must have a Prime membership OR Prime Video subscription (via).
Mobile Premier League (MPL) is now pulling in YouTube influencers like Amit Bhadana, Elvish Yadav and Ashish Chanchlani as Brand Ambassadors. They will now join Virat Kohli and Tamannah Bhatia in attracting attention and getting in more participation.
Even as UPI transactions have doubled in volume during the ongoing Covid pandemic, BHIM’s market shares have taken a major beating and have fallen below 1% now.
With PhonePe and GooglePay cornering over 80% of the market share, BHIM’s app is also seeing a downfall in downloads.
Ronojoy Dutta, CEO of IndiGo has said that IndioGo will be refunding all passengers who had cancelled air-tickets on account of the Coronavirus lockdown by the 31st of January, 2021. The CEO also said that the airline had already processed refunds amounting to 1,000 crores.
According to the Telangana Information Technology Association (TITA), over 80% IT employees working in Hyderabad’s IT sector could not vote in the recently held GHMC elections as they were working from home. TITA has made the call for an option to vote online again.
Covid-19 Diagnostic Test – This new test being developed uses a smartphone camera to generate a positive or negative result and also measure the concentration of virus in a single sample within 30 minutes.
Malavika Hegde, the wife of the late Café Coffee Day founder, VG Siddartha has been appointed the CEO. VG Siddartha had apparently committed suicide in 2019.
Walmart is reportedly getting ready for a $10 billion Flipkart IPO in the US stock market. This move would mean that Walmart will be doubling its investment in the Indian e-commerce giant in just 3 years.
Google and other search engines questioned. The European Union has asked the search engines to explain the factors used by their algorithm to rank search results on their platforms.
After Serum Institute of India (SII), Bharat Biotech has now asked for permission to use Covaxin in an emergency.
Gionee Mobiles has been found guilty of ‘intentionally inflicting’ over 2 million mobile phones with malware.
The Director-General of Software Technology Parks of India (STPI), Dr. Omkar Rai has said that India will have more than 50 unicorn startups by 2022.