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Coders are in demand across sectors in India. Here’s why The rising need for programmers and developers in non-IT sectors in the wake of the sharp digital-first focus across India Inc is driving the demand for those who belong to this ilk, while helping institutes that offer programming courses rake in the moolah (Image credit: ThisisEngineering RAEng on Unsplash) Aakash Iyer, 24, a denizen of Chennai, graduated in programming from a city engineering college in 2018 and then joined a food sta...

But because it seems to be part of a pattern of lax data practices by the company going back years. so back in 2011, it was a settlement with the ftc and now we discover yet another incident where the data was failed to be protected. when you discovered the cambridge analytica that had fraudulently obtained all of this information, why didnt you inform those 87 million? >> when we learned in 2015 that cambridge analytica had bought data from an app developer on facebook that people had shared it...

Identify apps that are similarly doing sketchy things, were going to make sure that we tell people then too, right? thats definitely something that looking back on this, you know, i regret that we didnt do at the time. and i think we got that wrong. and were committed to getting that right going forward. >> i want to ask about that because when this came to light, you guys knew this a long time ago, that this data was out there. why didnt you tell users? dont you think users have the right to kn...

Many wonders where is mark zuckerberg or the guys that run the company. they werent out there. hes broken his silence. he was in meeting with engineers to make sure this doesnt happen again. one of the things that i think is important here, you know, he says it in a statement, this shouldnt have happened. it happened about four or five years ago when they gave permission for this app developer to take this quiz and in doing so, he got basically access to 50 million users, personal information, w...

Broadcast, you have all of this data being passed to a firm that seems to use really underhanded tactics to get what it wants or talks about using those tactics. >> was it stolen? >> is that the difference? did the information that the people freely gave up for use of the obama campaign, in this case, the information was stolen and metastasized, they not only took your information but all your facebook colleagues, everybody you knew, they grabbed all that, too. was that a theft? thats a tough qu...

On is an education program. we call it everyone can code. its a little play off of anyone can cook. anyone can cook, not everyone will be a chef. nibble can learn to code, not everybody will be the worlds greatest app developer. we all grew up where you have to learn a foreign language. increasingly, its important that people learn to code, because as kids growing up, maybe they have a propensity to be a great developer, with you by the time you get older, you might not be willing to start. even...

Future of technology, i should say, apple senior vice president phil schiller says learn how to code. heres cnns laurie segall. >> how do you guys at apple try to get people invested in developing apps and this kind of technology at an early age? >> growth of the app developer economy is i think a potential driving force for our whole economy. in american and in other countries around the world, one of the cool things im proud were working on is an education program. we call it everyone can code...

Reared him. watch as this man in the video a successful app developer from new york gave his parents an envelope while recording their reaction inside a note sa said, he paid off their mortgage. both parents overcome with emotion as you can see start to cry. clearly a very, very sweet and generous christmas gift. >> i love you. >> coming up in the next hour of our special live coverage, the latest from north korea blasting u.s. president obama on his handling of the sony hacking situation. and t...

Smart phone, last year 328 million apps were downloaded on christmas day along. thats more than double the normal amount thats downloaded theres so many devices out there, not just i paipads. if youre an app developer, this is the day when you want people to download your a prkapp. you want them to unwrap that new device. >> your top five recommended list. the first one on the list is, dots. >> dots, more games are downloaded than anything else today. and this is a great game thats free, its con...

Take -- yesterday they raised the expected price range for the stock as well. and if all the shares being offered are sold at the high end of the expected price range, the ipo could raise more than $18.4 billion which would value facebook overall at more than $100 billion. however, heres a troubling sign for you, major advertiser, gm, general motors is going to stop advertising on facebook because it says that paid ads on the site have little influence on consumers confidence. you have to consid...