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Apple acquires weather prediction app Dark Sky, announces end of availability for Android users

Apple has acquired weather app Dark Sky, famous for its accurate hyper-local…

Disney+ to launch in India on April 3

After a rather muddling ride to its India debut, the long wait…

Ford to make 50,000 ventilators in association with GE by July

Everyone from all around the world, individuals, partnerships and most importantly companies…

Xerox is dropping its $35 billion hostile takeover bid for HP

Bringing an end to perhaps one of the most storied hostile takeover…

Yet another information breach at Marriott results in leaking of data for 5.2 million guests

In its second information breach in three years, global hospitality chain Marriott,…

Two more astronauts, 1 each from JAXA and NASA, join first SpaceX operational crew mission to ISS

SpaceX is in preparation to launch its first official operational crew mission…

Fitbit launches Charge 4 with in-built GPS, NFC and more

Fitbit is back into some launch news after a rather silent couple…
Tesla sales fall again, challenges persist

Tesla will ship some ‘extra’ FDA-approved ventilators free of cost to areas in immediate need

Elon Musk, taking to Twitter, has announced that he has some “extra”…
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Snapchat launches ‘App Stories’ to finally allow users to post their stories on other apps

Snapchat, after teasing it at last year’s Partner Summit, has finally launched…

Chinese e-commerce giant Pinduoduo raises $1.1 Billion via private share placement

Pinduoduo, Alibaba’s competitor in China’s $1 trillion e-commerce market, has reported a…
Airtel-Google network spam shield for RCS

After BSNL, Airtel and Vodafone extend plan validity for migrant and daily-wage workers amid coronavirus lockdown

Telecom operators Airtel and Vodafone have extended the validity of connections for…
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Huawei posts a 5.6% increase in yearly profits in the US despite trade ban

Ever since the Chinese telecom giant Huawei was blacklisted by the US…
xiaomi

Xiaomi donates ₹15 crore towards covid-19 relief efforts, employees encouraged to donate from salaries

As a contribution to the fight against the covid-19 pandemic, Xiaomi India…
Tesla

Tesla sales set to plummet after record-breaking 2019

COVID-19 has totally crippled humanity, both socially and economically. The world has…

Medtronic is making its portable ventilator design and software available for free to all

Medtronic, the Dublin-based medical equipment maker which was in the news for…
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Microsoft adds vertical tabs, smart copy, tracking prevention and more to its Chromium-based Edge browser

Microsoft made a slew of announcements today, including a ton of new…

Tiger Global was on a share purchase spree in TikTok parent Bytedance since 2018, current valuation at around $90Bn: Report

In a testament to TikTok’s (and perhaps the short format video) popularity,…

Facebook announces a $100 Million grant for newsrooms covering COVID-19 pandemic

Facebook has announced yet another financial package for COVID-19 related activities, this…

US Space Force launches its Space Fence Orbital Tracking System to track objects in Earth’s orbit

The US Space Force, President Trump’s (really) optimist addition to the United…

The US FDA approves Battelle’s decontamination system for N95 masks that makes them re-usable

In a rather action-packed week from the US FDA, the drug regulator…

FDA provides emergency authorisation to Malaria drug ‘Hydroxychloroquine’, to be used to treat 1100 coronavirus patients in New York

A drug that US President Donald Trump has backed as a possible…