Culture & Policy Internet News Google has been fined $98 million (again!) in Russia for not deleting illegal content Times are changing, and it is not just due to the pandemic… Soumyadeep SarkarDecember 24, 20212 minute read
Culture & Policy Internet News Marc Andreessen blocks Jack Dorsey on Twitter over Web3 remarks targeting VCs such as a16z Jack Dorsey may have left Twitter, but he continues to make headlines… Soumyadeep SarkarDecember 24, 20212 minute read
Internet News Amazon Web Services suffers record third outage this month, now resolved Outages seem to have become a common occurrence this year, and more… Soumyadeep SarkarDecember 23, 20212 minute read
Apps Internet News Instagram to now let users embed user profiles on websites Social media platforms have been in a tight race as the competition… Soumyadeep SarkarDecember 18, 20212 minute read
Business Internet News TikTok will deliver you the food you see through a new chain of restaurants in the US, starting 2022 TikTok has made its mark as a video-focused popular social networking service,… Soumyadeep SarkarDecember 18, 20212 minute read
Business Internet News Reddit confidentially files for IPO Reddit — the front page of the internet as they call it… Global Staff @ The Tech PortalDecember 16, 20211 minute read
Apps Global Internet News Twitter PM Modi’s Twitter account “briefly” compromised, now restored Nobody is invulnerable to getting hacked when it comes to social media,… Soumyadeep SarkarDecember 12, 20212 minute read
Apps Internet News Twitter is working on an Explore tab, which is a lot like that on TikTok TikTok and Clubhouse have been two success stories in recent times –… Soumyadeep SarkarDecember 11, 20212 minute read
Internet News Amazon Web Services went down, creating chaos on the internet In what seemed nothing short of an armageddon for some time on… Global Staff @ The Tech PortalDecember 8, 20211 minute read
Apps Internet News Facebook rolls out Split Payments on Messenger, currently in beta Facebook has been rolling out new features for quite some time –… Soumyadeep SarkarDecember 6, 20212 minute read
Business Culture & Policy Facebook Global Internet News Facebook-parent Meta launches initiatives to protect women users across its platforms The internet continues to be an unsafe place, especially increasingly for women.… Soumyadeep SarkarDecember 4, 20212 minute read
Internet News You can now book a ride on Uber via WhatsApp Uber is walking down a new path as the ride-hailing behemoth is… Soumyadeep SarkarDecember 3, 20212 minute read
Internet News Real-time animations, among other features going live on Reddit Reddit needs no introduction – the front page of the internet is… Soumyadeep SarkarDecember 2, 20212 minute read
Apps Global Internet News Find out the winners of Google Play’s Best of 2021 With 2022 around the corner, the time has come to determine how… Soumyadeep SarkarNovember 30, 20212 minute read
Culture & Policy Global Internet News Jack Dorsey to step down as Twitter CEO, CTO Parag Agrawal to take over Twitter is having a change of guard once again as CEO Jack… Soumyadeep SarkarNovember 30, 20212 minute read
Global Internet News Startups Podcasting platform Podimo gobbles up $78 million in Series B round The tastes of people are changing as more and more users are… Soumyadeep SarkarNovember 24, 20212 minute read
Business Internet News Netflix is acquiring Scanline VFX, the German visual effects studio behind ‘Stranger Things’, ‘GOT’ among others Netflix wants to push the pedal on visual content. And while its… Global Staff @ The Tech PortalNovember 23, 20212 minute read
Apps Culture & Policy Internet News Instagram, Facebook Messenger will not get end-to-end encryption as a default, before 2023 If you use WhatsApp, then you are no stranger to end-to-end encryption.… Soumyadeep SarkarNovember 23, 20212 minute read
Culture & Policy Internet News Facebook tests a new News Feed that will let you see less from groups, more from friends If you are still one of those who regularly uses Facebook, you’d… Global Staff @ The Tech PortalNovember 19, 20212 minute read
Global Internet News Instagram adds TikTok like Voice Effects and Text-to Speech features to Reels Instagram has been launching several new features in recent times, and the… Soumyadeep SarkarNovember 13, 20212 minute read
Culture & Policy Global Internet News China’s Tencent could emerge as a likely rival to Facebook’s metaverse vision The metaverse has not come yet, but companies have already started betting… Soumyadeep SarkarNovember 12, 20212 minute read
