Business Global News Meta clocks 11% revenue growth in Q2 2023, Reality Labs continues to bleed Even as its Reality Labs unit continues to bleed, social media company… Soumyadeep SarkarJuly 27, 20233 minute read
Culture & Policy Global Google News Google to pay $338.7Mn in damages in Chromecast patent case In a major blow for Alphabet’s Google, the US-based tech giant has… Soumyadeep SarkarJuly 25, 20232 minute read
Crypto Global News Sam Altman’s crypto venture Worldcoin takes off In a move that brings AI and crypto closer than ever before,… Soumyadeep SarkarJuly 24, 20234 minute read
A.I. Culture & Policy Global News OpenAI, Microsoft, others make voluntary AI safety commitments, pledge to watermark AI content With an ever-increasing confluence around A.I., potential misuse and serious harm are… Soumyadeep SarkarJuly 22, 20233 minute read
Business Gaming Global News Microsoft gets crucial US court win against FTC for its Activision-Blizzard acquisition Microsoft’s efforts to seal its blockbuster deal to acquire Activision Blizzard just… Soumyadeep SarkarJuly 11, 20233 minute read
Gaming Global News EA Games announces new Marvel-partnered ‘Black Panther’ title A new third-person, single-player game is in the works, and is set… Soumyadeep SarkarJuly 11, 20232 minute read
Apps Global Internet News Threads soars to 100 million users in five days, way faster than ChatGPT or any other internet platform/app It’s official – Threads has surpassed 100 million users well within five… Soumyadeep SarkarJuly 10, 20233 minute read
Global News Security Massive leak at Bangladesh govt site exposes data of millions of citizens In a major cybersecurity breach, a government website in Bangladesh has exposed… Soumyadeep SarkarJuly 9, 20232 minute read
Futurism Global News GPT-4 is now generally available GPT-4, which was first released in March, has now been made generally… Soumyadeep SarkarJuly 7, 20232 minute read
Gadgetry Global News Samsung Samsung to host Galaxy Unpacked event on July 26 to launch new foldables In an official invite, Samsung announced that its next Galaxy Unpacked event… Soumyadeep SarkarJuly 6, 20232 minute read
Culture & Policy Global Internet News Non-users can once again view content on Twitter With the Threds mania rapidly taking over the Twitter chaos, the latter… Soumyadeep SarkarJuly 6, 20232 minute read
Apps Global Internet News Instagram’s Threads to debut on July 6 amid Twitter chaos With all that is going on at Twitter, the sight of a… Soumyadeep SarkarJuly 4, 20233 minute read
Culture & Policy Global Internet News Google to remove Canadian news links from Search, News, and Discover, in response to Online News Act The recent enactment of Canada’s Bill C-18 (the Online News Act) continues… Soumyadeep SarkarJune 30, 20233 minute read
Global News Startups Inflection AI gets $1.3Bn from Microsoft, Nvidia to expand work on its ‘Inflection-1’ AI model The number and size of investments in startups may have waned in… Soumyadeep SarkarJune 30, 20233 minute read
Acquisitions Global News Startups Visa acquires Brazilian payments startup Pismo in a staggering $1Bn all-cash deal In a groundbreaking move, fintech giant Visa has announced that it has… Soumyadeep SarkarJune 29, 20232 minute read
Business Global News IBM to acquire Apptio for $4.6Bn as it looks to solidify cloud architecture business In a strategic move to bolster its cloud and automation capabilities, tech… Soumyadeep SarkarJune 26, 20233 minute read
Enterprise Global Google News Amazon to invest additional $15Bn to India, Google to open global fintech operation centre in Gujarat With its massive population, burgeoning middle class, and rapidly growing digital landscape,… Soumyadeep SarkarJune 26, 20233 minute read
Enterprise Global News Applied Materials to set up collaborative engineering center in Bengaluru with $400Mn investment India’s semiconductor industry seems to be picking up investments in an accelerated… Soumyadeep SarkarJune 23, 20233 minute read
Business Global News Micron to invest $825 million to set up its first chip factory in India It seems that Tesla and SpaceX aren’t the only American enterprises to… Soumyadeep SarkarJune 22, 20233 minute read
Futurism Global Internet News China’s Ant Group ventures into Large-Language Models with Zhenyi The fallout of ChatGPT and the increasing investments into artificial intelligence just… Soumyadeep SarkarJune 22, 20232 minute read
Global Internet News Security Reddit faces ransom demands: Hackers threaten to leak stolen data amidst API pricing controversy As if thousands of subreddits going dark or finding alternative means of… Soumyadeep SarkarJune 20, 20233 minute read
