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Aarogya Setu app to display vaccine status soon SECTIONS Share Synopsis The government is debating whether contact tracing of people who have been fully vaccinated should be stopped since it does not want to unnecessarily keep tracking a person’s location as well as other details. Agencies The Aarogya Setu contact tracing app may soon become a tool to quickly access a persons vaccination status. The government is working on a feature where a blue tick will appear against their names once peop...

US chip startups, long shunned in favor of internet bets, stir excitement again SECTIONS Last Updated: May 05, 2021, 05:22 PM IST Share Synopsis The enthusiasm for chip startups is mostly a result of the need, by companies using AI software, for special-purpose processors that can efficiently run machine-learning algorithms requiring huge troves of data - the heart of the booming artificial-intelligence business ThinkStock Photos Silicon Valley venture capitalists, long focused on software and ...

Samsung Windfall Gives Richest Korean Woman $7 Billion Fortune May 04 2021, 9:10 AM May 04 2021, 7:28 AM May 04 2021, 9:10 AM (Bloomberg) -- Hong Ra-hee, the wife of the late Samsung Group Chairman Lee Kun-hee, boosted her fortune to more than $7 billion after receiving billions of dollars in stocks in the much-awaited transfer of her husband’s assets. (Bloomberg) -- Hong Ra-hee, the wife of the late Samsung Group Chairman Lee Kun-hee, boosted her fortune to more than $7 billion after rece...

Well soon meet in your inbox. Please wait... While Apple depicted its app store as an invaluable service beloved by consumers and developers alike, Epic Games attacked it as a breakthrough idea that has morphed into an instrument of financial exploitation that illegally locks out competition. The trial, expected to last most of this month, revolves around the 15% to 30% commission that Apple charges for subscriptions and purchases made from apps downloaded from its store -- the only one acces...

Well soon meet in your inbox. Please wait... In the tweet, the actor urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to show his "Virat Roop" from the "early 2000s" to "tame" Mamata Banerjee in Bengal. This sparked outrage among Twitter users, who asked the platform to take action against her account. "We’ve been clear that we will take strong enforcement action on behavior that has the potential to lead to offline harm. The referenced account has been permanently suspended for repeated violations of Twit...

E-Commerce Service Valued at $235 Million Targets U.S. IPO May 05 2021, 12:15 AM May 04 2021, 8:21 AM May 05 2021, 12:15 AM (Bloomberg) -- SCI Ecommerce, the online shopping service provider backed by two of Alibaba’s earliest employees, has raised more than S$50 million ($38 million) to expand in Southeast Asia ahead of a potential Nasdaq listing. (Bloomberg) -- SCI Ecommerce, the online shopping service provider backed by two of Alibaba’s earliest employees, has raised more than S$5...

Synopsis The PC maker is under pressure to boost profitability after its debt-laden acquisition of data storage provider EMC Corp for $67 billion in 2016 failed to meet financial targets, hurt by intensifying price competition. Reuters Computer maker Dell Technologies on Sunday said private-equity firms Francisco Partners and TPG Capital have entered a definitive agreement to buy its cloud business, Boomi, in a $4 billion cash transaction. The company said the deal was expected to close by the ...

Well soon meet in your inbox. Please wait... Apple has mostly succeeded in staying out of the regulatory crosshairs by arguing that the iPhone is a niche product in a smartphone world dominated by Googles Android operating system. But that argument has become harder to sustain with the number of iPhone users now exceeding 1 billion. Epic alleges Apple has such a strong lock on those customers that the app store constitutes a distinct market for software developers over which Apple has monopo...

Well soon meet in your inbox. Please wait... The government signalled that it is looking to use drones in its battle against the raging Covid-19 pandemic by granting two exemptions to conduct experimental drone deliveries of vaccines. However, actual deliveries to citizens are some time away. “This is an experiment in a defined airspace and not actual delivery (of vaccines) to citizens. Actual vaccine delivery is at least a year away,” said a senior government official. “It may not be pru...

Twitter row over eSales of non-essentials in Mumbai SECTIONS Last Updated: May 03, 2021, 08:13 AM IST Share Synopsis The topic "Amazon Defies Protocols" was trending with just under 4,000 tweets late on Sunday night on the micro-blogging platform AFP In what appeared to be a smear campaign against US e-commerce giant Amazon, several users on Twitter alleged on Sunday that it was violating lockdown norms in Maharashtra by shipping non-essential items. The topic “Amazon Defies Protocols” was ...