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Reliance Jio And Vista Equity Partners Deal: Everything to Know About the Investment Firm

The US-headquartered investment firm invests in tech and software companies, including enterprise software, data, and technology-enabled organizations across private equity, credit, public equity, and permanent capital strategies.




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Reliance Jio And Vista Equity Partners in Rs 11,367 Crore Deal: What the Two Companies Said

This investment will give Jio Platforms a solid foundation to build on, towards what Reliance Jio says is a Digital India vision for 1.3 billion people and businesses across the country, including small businesses, micro-businesses and farmers.




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WeChat Monitors Messages Sent by Foreign Users Like You to Strengthen Censorship in China

China’s cyber laws are rather broadly defined. Incidentally, Tencent’s privacy policy documents for China and the rest of the world, does not indicate that non-China accounts will be under surveillance.




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Delhi E-Token Portal to Purchase Alcohol Crashes Under Heavy Demand

The Delhi government launched an online portal offering e-tokens for customers to avoid long queues.




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Xiaomi Mi 10 to Launch Today in India: How to Watch Live Stream

The all-new Mi 10 flagship will be launched today in India alongside two new product categories.




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Facebook to Reportedly Allow Employees to Work From Home Until the End of 2020

According to the report, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg may announce the company's office reopening plan in an official statement soon.




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Zoom Acquires Keybase to Address Privacy and Security Loopholes on its Platform

Zoom has been one of the big beneficiaries of coronavirus lockdowns, with millions of workers and students using its video platform as they work and study from home.




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Facebook, Youtube Remove 'Plandemic', A Viral Video Spreading COVID-19 Misinformation

The 26-minute video went viral this week across social media platforms.




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Sudhir Krishnaswamy: Key Things About the Only Indian on Facebook Oversight Board

The youngest ever vice-chancellor of NLSIU was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, and looks to establish a precedent-setting moderation model at Facebook.




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Mi 10 5G Launched in India at Rs 49,999: Specifications, Variants, Availability and More

The Mi 10 5G is now the most expensive smartphone offering from Xiaomi in India and goes on the compete with the new OnePlus 8 Series.




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Google Launches 'Read Along' App That Aims To Help Kids Improving Their Reading Skills

Read-Along uses Google's speech recognition technology to help develop literacy skills and is now available in 180 countries.




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Xiaomi Wants to Turn Every TV Smart With the Mi Box 4K

Xiaomi has introduced an Android TV-based 4K streaming box for consumers in India to turn their regular TV into a smart TV.




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Fortnite Sets All-time Total Players Record With 350 Million Registered Users Worldwide

In April, players spent over 3.2 billion hours in-game which is also a record.




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Samsung Resumes Operations in Noida Factory With 30% Of Its Employees

In an official statement, Samsung said that it has received requisite permissions to restart production at our Noida factory.




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'Locker Rooms' are Common in Juvenile Internet Users, But What Should be Done About it?

The recently recurrent issues of juvenile ‘locker room’ chats have brought forth conversations around adolescent mental health and anti-cyber bullying acts.




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Jio Announces Rs 2,399 New Annual Plan With 25% More Data Than Competition

Beyond 2GB data per day for one year, Jio's new add-on data plans also offer no daily cap data top-ups for high data users at competitive prices.




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Jio 'Work From Home' Top-Up Plans Offer Up to 50GB Data for Just Rs 251

The top-up plans will line up alongside a new Rs 2,399 annual plan that offers 2GB data per day for 365 days.




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Facebook Oversight Board Will Balance Free Speech, Says Sudhir Krishnaswamy

Sudhir Krishnaswamy also clarifies that he won't be representing cases related to India, but willl look at content moderation questions from around the world.




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Facebook Employees Can Work From Home Till The End 2020

Facebook Employees Can Work From Home Till The End 2020




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Dineout’s Contacless Service Extends to Groceries, Airports, Alcohol Shops and More

Dineout believes the contactless suite can expand to airports, hospitals, liquor shops and others to reduce waiting times and enforce social distancing.




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Microsoft, Amazon Continue Trading Fresh Barbs Over $10 Billion JEDI Contract Appeal

The Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure contract is the US Department of Defense' cloud computing contract which has been reported as being worth $10 billion.




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Spotify Reportedly Testing Video Podcasts: Could This Be the Next Big Thing

The video podcasts feature will likely to reach more Spotify listeners in the coming days, albeit Spotify has not mentioned any official date.




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Apple to Reopen Some Retail Stores in US Next Week While Enforcing Social Distancing Protocol

The company will be opening only six retail stores out of 271 that it operates in the US.




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You Can Now Buy Samsung Smartphones Right From Your Home: Here's How

More than 20,000 offline retailers have already signed up for the digital platform after Samsung India collaborated with Benow.




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Twitter Opposes US Govt's Claims That Accounts from China, Russia Spreading COVID-19 Hoax

The US state department accused China of colluding with Russia to manipulate social media platforms to spread fake news around coronavirus.




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Bitcoin Crosses $10,000 Threshold For First Time Since February Before Halving Again

Some analysts are predicting there are signs a major rally may be underway, with retail or individual investors involved.




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WHO Plans to Launch Coronavirus Symptom Checking App For Under-Resourced Countries

The app will ask people about their symptoms and offer guidance on whether they may have COVID-19, the potentially lethal illness caused by the coronavirus.




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Milan's Famed La Scala Opera House Reopens Digitally Via Google Virtual Tour

The project includes virtual tours of the theatre, backstage and museum, along with 240,000 archival photos, 16,000 documents, and more than 40 digital exhibits.




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Samsung Said to be Working on its Own Smart Debit Card to Compete Against the Apple Card

Samsung's physical and virtual smart debit card could become a part of the company's existing Samsung Pay platform.




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Xiaomi Mi 10 5G vs OnePlus 8: Chinese Mid-Range Flagship Brawl

OnePlus has yet another competitor in India, this time it is the Chinese tech giant Xiaomi with its new Mi 10.




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Internet Traffic in India Sees 40% Spike in March Due to COVID-19 Lockdown: ACT Fibernet

The data is based on overall traffic data measured from February-April 2020 from 19 cities across the country.




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Many US States Are Exploring House Arrest Technology to Keep COVID-19 Patients at Home

House arrest tech includes battery-powered ankle bracelets or location-tracking apps.




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The Next Apple AirPods Refresh Will Not Arrive before 2021

Apple was all set to launch the new AirPods this year but has delayed its release owing to COVID-19 pandemic.




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PUBG Mobile Mad Miramar Sandstorm Mode to Arrive on May 12

Gear up as Mad Miramar is going to even more exciting with the new sandstorm mode.




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Xbox Series X Gameplay Reveal: Trailers of All 13 Titles 'Optimised for Series X'

While the Xbox Series X gameplay reveal did have crowdpullers in the likes of Assassin's Creed Valhalla, Madden NFL 21 and Scorn, many clearly expected more.




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Samsung Patent Reveals a Smartphone That Has a 'Status Indicator' On the Selfie Camera

According to reports, the status indicator around the camera is in various shapes like square, ovaloid, and even circular.




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Indian Consumers Don't Care About Megapixels As Much As Brands Do

The report added that 79 per cent of the consumers in the sub-Rs 30,000 price band believe that image quality is not dependent on the number of megapixels.




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Hackers Are Targetting Online Educational Portals More Than Ever

Hackers are taking advantage of the current situation when people are locked down in their homes and are heavily reliant on digital resources.




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WeChat Allegedly Surveilled Foreign Users To Refine Censorship At Home: Report

WeChat developer Tencent, however, downplayed the report saying all content shared among international users is private and not used surveillance purposes.




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Cricket Australia Looking for Temporary Jobs for Stood-down Staff at Supermarket

Cricket Australias staff, which has been stood down amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, could find new jobs stacking supermarket shelves in the coming days




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Came as a Surprise to Me: Karthik on Promotion in 2019 WC Semis

India cricketer Dinesh Karthik stated he was caught off-guard after he was asked to bat at No.5 in the 2019 World Cup semi-final against New Zealand.




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Brett Lee Was Quite a Terror on the Field Himself: Shoaib Akhtar

The Pakistani bowler was thus indicating that he was going to aim for Lee's head but instead the ball went to his toes.




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Josh Hazlewood Picks Adelaide Oval as Venue if Entire India Series is Held at One Stadium

A financially-weakened CA is desperate to host India to save the broadcast revenue from the contest.




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Shakib Al Hasan Auctions 'Favourite' Bat Used in World Cup 2019 to Help Fight against Coronavirus

The 33-year-old all-rounder had a hugely successful World Cup in England last year, scoring 606 runs in eight matches at an average of 86.57, which included two centuries and five fifties.




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Playing James Anderson in England Has Been 'Really Challenging': Ajinkya Rahane

Rahane, who has amassed over 4000 runs in Test cricket and has a century in England, the West Indies apart from India, emphasised on the need to be mentally fit during the coronavirus-forced lockdown period.




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Anil Kumble the Best Captain I Played Under: Gautam Gambhir

The cricketer-turned-politician believes if Kumble had led Team India for a longer period, he would have broken every captaincy records.




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Period Away from Cricket was Torture, Made me More Determined: Prithvi Shaw

The talented 20-year-old was suspended by the BCCI in July last year until November 15 for “inadvertently” ingesting a prohibited substance, commonly found in cough syrups.




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Pakistan's Tour to Netherlands Postponed Due to Covid-19

The Pakistan Cricket Board on Wednesday announced following advice from the Koninklijke Nederlandse Cricket Bond (KNCB), it has indefinitely postponed its July tour to the Netherlands after the Dutch government banned all events (sports and cultural) until September 1 due to the Covid-19 pandemic.




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Chris Gayle Joins St Lucia Zouks for CPL 2020

Swashbuckling West Indies batsman Chris Gayle has been signed by St Lucia Zouks as their marquee player for the 2020 edition of the Caribbean Premier League (CPL).




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England Players Were Jealous of Pietersen's 'Massive' IPL Deal: Vaughan

Michael Vaughan has revealed that many former England players were jealous of Kevin Pietersen after the latter bagged a huge contract with the Indian Premier League (IPL).