Snapchat is all set to take on TikTok with the announcement of a new feature in that will allow Snapchat users set their Snaps to music – just like TikTok does. Currently being tested, this feature will allow Snapchat to effectively capture a chunk of the TikTok users who have been looking for alternatives ever since the Trump administration in the US have been hot-footing a ban on TikTok and other Chinese technology companies. TikTok is currently banned in India and in some other countries as well, so if Snapchat manages to…

SaaS unicorn Freshworks has asked about the  US court to dismiss a plea filed against it by rival Zoho Corporation, a Chennai-based SaaS company. In March, Zoho filed a case against Freshworks at the California Northern District Court under the Defense of Trade Secrets Act, accusing it of accessing and using confidential customer data. Now, Freshworks has said that Zoho’s plea lacked “specificity and particularity” in its allegations. According to the case filed by Zoho Corp earlier this year, files of which were accessed, the company accused Freshworks of building its…

The Covid-19 pandemic has the plot of a dystopian film scripted that none of us want to even watch, least of all, be featured in. But the humans were not asked of their opinion. The extremely contagious disease spread as fast as the horror stories about it. Soon, most of the countries were grappling with growing number of Covid positive cases and needed intervention at the earliest. There were not enough humans on the planet to win a fight of this magnitude. To stop the spread, even the most skeptical…

Samsung Electronics Co Ltd is forging a comeback in India’s smartphone market with a new range of budget devices and a ramped-up to the  online presence, aiming to recoup ground ceded to Chinese rivals such as Xiaomi Corp. Samsung, the only major non-Chinese player in the country, has already begun to gain ground, and a surge in anti-China sentiment in India following a border clash in June is expected to provide a fresh boost. Samsung jumped to the No. 2 spot with 26% market share in the second quarter behind the  Xiaomi’s…

The Covid-19 pandemic is fueling an e-commerce boom as per the shuttered businesses move online — but Google isn’t benefiting in the way its big tech rivals are. Google advertising sales fell 8% in the second quarter, causing overall revenue at parent Alphabet to shrink for the first time. The company’s main digital ad rival Facebook Inc. saw sales jump 11%, while Amazon revenue soared 40%. Those gaps is highlighted how Google has struggled to parlay its online search dominance into a meaningful e-commerce business. Google’s shares fell upto 3%…

Google has added a few security tools to protect your passwords and financial information saved on Chrome’s autofill better. One of these features will be use biometric information, like fingerprint etc, to verify your identity when you want to use your credit card online.Google has rolled out a couple of security tools to protect the financial information and passwords that you saved with Chrome’s autofill feature. One of them will allow you to verify your identity using biometric information, such as your fingerprint, whenever you want to use your credit card online. Currently, these…

Pepper’s skill set includes making phone calls, identifying missing items in the kitchen and occasional aerobics instruction. Now, after a surge in loneliness among vulnerable groups during the coronavirus pandemic, this robot’s potential as a companion have earned her a role in a Scottish university’s assisted living all experiment with artificial intelligence. Scientists at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh have programmed robots, including Pepper — who was launched as per the world’s first humanoid in Japan in 2014 — to perform tasks normally carried out by care workers. “We are specifically interested in…