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Apple’s ‘virtual-only’ WWDC 2020 pushed back to June 22, a 2 week delay in light of COVID 19

Apple, like most other companies, had announced that most of its events…
Flipkart

India allows non-essential ecommerce deliveries, cab services in orange and green zones amid extended lockdown

In view of rising coronavirus cases in certain select regions in the…
Facebook

Facebook now has a combined monthly user base of over 3 billion

While announcing its quarterly financial numbers, Facebook also gave us a pretty…

‘Meet’ JioMeet, the newest video conferencing app from Reliance

With security concerns continuing to plague Zoom and relative unpopularity of alternatives…
Twitter

Twitter books loss in Q1’20, clocks 24% Y-o-Y growth in monetizable daily active usage

Twitter has announced its earnings for the first quarter of 2020, and…

Zoom admits to having misreported its ‘300 million’ daily active users mark: The Verge

Zoom, the embattled video conferencing app, has admitted to having misreported numbers…
Tesla CEO Elon Musk

As Mark Zuckerberg praises lockdown efforts, Elon Musk terms it “fascist”

Much like the American populace, two Silicon Valley billionaires have had starkly…

Facebook posts revenue growth in Q1’20 but ad revenues decline, defers Q2 guidance

Its earnings season folks, and we have some relatively good news from…
Google Meet

Google makes ‘Meet’ free for everyone starting next week

As big as Zoom has become in the last couple of months,…
Google

Google-parent Alphabet beats Q1’20 earnings estimates, but warns of a ‘difficult’ 2nd quarter

Despite the growing traffic on places such as Facebook and Google, ad…
WhatsApp

Whatsapp records 70% drop in viral messages after limiting forwards

While governments globally struggle to fight the human side of coronavirus pandemic,…

With ‘Messenger Rooms’ launch, Facebook joins in the video-conferencing battle

Facebook has announced the launch of ‘Messenger Rooms’ today. Messenger Rooms are…

Google extends identity verification process to all advertisers to curb deceptive ads

Google has announced an extension of its mandatory identity verification program to…
Google Meet

Google launches tile layout for ‘Meet’, a brilliant new ‘night mode’ and an even better noise cancellation feature

Video conferencing is at an all-time high, thanks to lockdowns imposed globally…

Facebook expands Messenger kids to 70+ countries, introduces new features

Facebook has announced the launch of Messenger Kids across 70 new countries…
Netflix

Lockdowns help Netflix record 16 million new subscribers in Q1’20, reports lower-than-expected EPS

Streaming giant Netflix has released this year’s first quarterly earnings and has…
Loon

Alphabet owned Loon deploys first commercial internet balloons in Kenya

After what has been years of delay, Google’s Loon project seems to…

Google reportedly working on a Google smart debit card to compete with Apple

It has been decreed by fate and gods who sit above us,…

Facebook to start alerting users who might have come in contact with fake news about coronavirus

Facebook has been making efforts to not only provide people with credible…