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Facebook VP rubbishes reports of platform pulling out of Europe after data transfer ban
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0After an order was passed by Ireland’s Data Protection Commission to Facebook, barring it from transferring user data back...
Byju’s raises additional fund from three new investors in its latest funding round
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0Byju’s — world’s most valued ed tech platform at the moment — is on hot streak of raising millions...
Servify grabs $23Mn to expand its device lifecycle management platform, which also serves Apple
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0Servify, a Mumbai based technology platform that offers an integrated device lifecycle management platform, has raised $23 million in...
Flipkart expands ‘Flipkart Wholesale’ to 12 more Indian cities
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0Earlier this month, Flipkart announced a new B2B marketplace, after having acquired the entirety of Walmart’s wholesale business in...
Instagram Reels will now allow 30 second videos and easier editing
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0Instagram Reels, the blatant TikTok clone from Facebook, is set to receive a slew of upgrades, including one that...
Adobe’s ‘Liquid Mode’ will make reading PDFs through smartphones bearable
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0PDFs (Portable Document Format) have been around for over 30 years now. Smartphones on the other hand, were not...
TikTok removed over 104 Mn videos for policy violations, including over 37 Mn from India, in 1st half of 2020
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0ByteDance owned TikTok has been in scrutiny for putting user privacy in jeopardy from multiple governments, which led to...
Google’s Area 120 launches a new experimental work tracking tool called ‘Tables’
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0Working on projects can be an organizational nightmare, with teams often spending more time on keeping track of work...
Singapore esports entertainment startup Ampverse completes pre-Series A round
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0With a booming gaming population spread across the continent, Thailand, and Singapore based esports entertainment startup firm Ampverse has...
Reliance is aiming India’s low budget smartphone segment with millions of new Jio Phones: Report
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0The Indo-China political tensions forced a widespread boycott of Chinese products in the Indian Subcontinent and put forth a...
Vulnerabilities in UP government’s COVID-19 tracking software put security of millions at risk
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0India has not had the best record when it comes to contact tracing tools, as was made evident by...
Tesla pushed technology to its limits, at its Battery Day event
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0Tesla has forever been a company that has looked to push the limits of technology in its urge of...
Apple’s official online store goes live in India
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0Rejoice! Rejoice! Rejoice! The official online Apple store for India, has finally gone live. It has taken over two...
Reliance Retail gets $747Mn from KKR for a 1.28% stake at a $57B pre-money valuation
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0Mukesh Ambani is leveraging his existing investor firepower from the over $20Bn that he raised for Reliance Jio, to...
Tesla introduces new Model S Plaid and promises to produce a $25,000 electric car
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0In an online streamed event called the ‘Battery Day’, Tesla CEO Elon Musk made some new announcements about the...
Amazon adds support for India’s regional languages
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0It’s no secret that Amazon loves India. The company has been in the country for over 7 years now,...
Apple services including iTunes store and Apple TV+ restored after prolonged outage
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0Majority of Apple’s services suffered a prolonged outage, which are now restored. The cupertino giant confirmed that some of...
Paytm CEO expects a long drawn fight against Google’s digital monopoly
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0Paytm CEO and founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma in an interview, has expressed severe disappointment regarding the takedown of Paytm...
Tesla in preliminary talks to set up an R&D center in India’s Bengaluru
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0Tesla-the world’s most valuable automobile maker, has been trying to establish a presence in the fourth largest automobile market...
OnePlus confirms the OnePlus 8T 5G, launch scheduled for 14th October
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0OnePlus offers some of the most powerful Android phones in the market at some of the most affordable prices...
China-linked lending apps on government’s radar amid potential data breach threat
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0With the rising acrimony between India and China due to tensions at the border, as well as the general...
Chinese electric vehicle startup WM Motor raises $1.47 billion in Series D round
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0With the entry of Tesla in the region, China has suddenly become a hub of innovation for the electric...
China unlikely to approve the new TikTok deal, says China’s Global Times (wtf?)
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0Hasn’t it been exasperating to follow all the news around Tiktok/Oracle/Walmart deal? It surely has been, not just for...
Confusions galore as Oracle claims ByteDance will own 0% in TikTok Global, while ByteDance claims it will retain a majority
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0It has not even been 48 hours since the TikTok-Oracle-Walmart deal was announced and we have already run into...
Facebook introduces new Rights Manager for images to protect Creators’ images from misuse
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0Creators on Facebook and Instagram no longer have to worry about their properiatery images being misused, posted or embedded...
Microsoft acquires Bethesda’s parent company ZeniMax media to compete with PS5 exclusives
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0In a revolutionary turn of events, Microsoft has announced the acquisition of ZeniMax media for a reported sum of...
Mobile Premier League (MPL) gets $90 million in Series C as esports soar during pandemic
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0Esports are soaring, becoming one of those select few industries to have benefitted heavily from the lockdown forced by...
Trump’s WeChat ban put on hold by U.S. federal Judge order
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0US President Donald Trump’s concerted efforts to weed out Chinese apps from American ecosystem have just hid a roadblock....
[Update: It’s confirmed]TikTok-Oracle deal receives Donald Trump’s go-ahead
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0Update: TikTok has officially confirmed the report, announcing the formation of TikTok Global, as well as Oracle and Walmart’s...
TikTok will stay functional in America till 12th November, WeChat goes down this Sunday
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0American TikTok fans would be heavily disappointed today as the US Commerce Department has ruled that TikTok and WeChat...
Unity sets the ball rolling with a $1.3Bn IPO fundraise
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0It is, in all sense of the word, “game on” for San Francisco based cross-platform game engine developer Unity...
Chinese govt. reportedly backed hackers to infiltrate into 100 firms and agencies
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0Plagued by a series of global controversies in recent times, the United States Department of Justice, through indictments, has...
PayTM taken down from Google Play Store due to violations around gambling
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0Google Play Store has taken down the popular e-wallet PayTM, in a bizzare, unexpected turn of events. The developer...
Apple official online store to launch in India on September 23
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0Following on the precedence it set by starting the assembly of iPhone 11 in a pant near Chennai, American...
‘TikTok Global’ set for an American comeback; this time with majority US holding
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0A recent report from Reuters has all but given us a clear picture of what the new corporate structure...
Facebook launches ‘Facebook Business Suite’ to help small businesses kick start their post pandemic recovery
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0With startups and small businesses turning towards online marketing as their primary form of advertisement, it is often a...
European fintech Factris lands €5Mn in Series A for its online lending platform for SMEs
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0Factris, an Amsterdam-based fintech startup that provides online working capital solutions to European SMEs, has announced closing of a...
China has surpassed 110 million 5G subscribers in record time
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0In what would surely come at the top in Telecom record books, an executive from the China Academy for...
Lightspeed Ventures enters Singapore as it looks to expand Southeast Asia portfolio
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0Lightspeed Venture Partners is prepared to extend its operations in Southeast Asia, after opening new quarters in Singapore. The...
The PS5 arrives on November 12 at $499
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0If you did not see this one coming, you must not be familiar with culture of console wars. Just...
Facebook announces the new Oculus Quest 2, it is much improved and cheaper at $299
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0After forming Facebook Reality Labs earlier this month, Facebook has already decided to roll out a new VR headset...
Amazon Music now gets podcasts, along with a set of original shows
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0In what would come in as a serious validation for the re-emerging podcast sector, Amazon Music has today announced...
Flipkart preparing to go public overseas by 2021: Reuters
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0Indian ecommerce giant Flipkart, which was snapped up by Walmart in a $16Bn deal, seems all set to go...
Facebook announces a $4.3 million grant for small businesses in India
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0Facebook is looking to move over the image disaster that it recently was a part of, in India, and...
Sony reportedly cuts down PS5 manufacturing forecast by 4 million units
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0With the next generation of Playstation right around the corner, it looks like Sony has run into some manufacturing...
CashKaro scores $10Mn in Series B for its cashback and coupons platform
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0Cashback-focused ecommerce platform CashKaro, has secured nearly 10 million USD in its ‘Series B’ funding round, led by Seoul...
AMD unveils the design for its new Radeon RX 6000 GPU
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0The GPU market is all set for an intriguing battle. And while Nvidia has already announced its entry into...
Facebook commits to reaching net zero carbon emissions by 2030
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0More and more tech giants join the bandwagon of committing to slash their carbon footprint as the danger of...
Scientists excited of possible extraterrestrial life on Venus after discovering Phosphine gas in atmosphere
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0While we have all been single-mindedly dreaming of setting up a human colony on Mars, a much nearer neighbor...
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