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India bans 59 China-linked phone apps, orders phone companies to block them, including TikTok !!

New Delhi: In a huge move, the central government on Monday decided to ban 59 mobile applications linked to China on grounds of national security. A formal order, asking phone companies to block the applications as soon as possible, was issued after weeks of discussions that started much before the Ladakh border standoff with China. But government officials told  that the deliberations were fast-tracked after June 15 violent scrap between soldiers at Galwan valley in eastern Ladakh. A statement by the information technology ministry said a decision had been taken…

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Gmail users on Windows 10 Mail app facing some serious issues !!

There’s a major issue for Gmail users who have linked their accounts to Windows 10’s Mail app. Many users are complaining that their emails are getting deleted while some are ending up in the spam folder. Windows 10 users have reported that emails sent are disappearing without a trace on the Mail app. These emails which are supposed to be in the sent folder are not there. Some users are not finding these emails even in the web version of Gmail. It appears that the emails have been removed entirely…

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Amazon India scraps single-use plastic in packaging across centers !!

The Indian unit of Amazon.com has eliminated all single-use plastic in its packaging across fulfillment centers in the country, in line with its target to weed out the packaging material by June, the e-commerce giant said Today. The company said in addition to replacing packaging materials such as bubble wraps and air pillows with “paper cushions”, it had also swapped out packaging tapes with other bio-degradable options. “We have successfully eliminated single-use plastic in all our fulfillment centers a 100%,” Akhil Saxena, vice-president of customer fulfillment for the APAC, LATAM…

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Oracle opens second cloud region in Hyderabad !!

Hyderabad: Today’s Oracle announced an opening of its second cloud region in Hyderabad. This follows Oracle’s launch of Mumbai Cloud region in 2019.  With the latest opening, India joins the US, Canada, Japan, Australia, South Korea, and the European Union to have multiple Oracle Cloud regions. Oracle said that the new Cloud region will help its Indian customers and partners to access to all Oracle Cloud suite which includes platforms such as Oracle Autonomous Database and Oracle Autonomous Linux, as well as Oracle Cloud Applications. Last year, Oracle launched as many 20…

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Paytm Payouts Processes INR 1,500 Cr Transactions Within First Year Of Launch !!

Maharashtra: Digital payments giant Paytm, on Sunday (June 28), announced that it has processed close to INR 1,500 Cr in salaries and other benefits for over 5K medium and large enterprises through its Paytm Payouts service. The Paytm Payout services, which was launched in this year, is a digital money transfer service that offers an API or Paytm for Business Dashboard to make bulk payments to bank accounts, UPI addresses and Paytm wallets instantly.  They look to help businesses make payments to their employees, vendors & business partners. These payments…

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PUBG Mobile, Truecaller and others found snooping on your iPhone clipboard data !!

A couple of days ago a popular social media app called TikTok came in the headlines for its suspicious behaviour of snooping on the iPhone’s clipboard. While the company is yet to fix this, a couple of researchers have found additional 53 iOS apps that work in a similar fashion. As reported by Ars Technical, these 53 apps discovered by researchers Talal Haj Bakry & Tommy Mysk back in March have still not stopped snooping on the iOS device’s clipboards. It is said that these apps peek on the handset’s saved clipboard,…

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Have Apple, Google Silently Installed COVID-19 Tracker on Your Phone? Here’s What You Need to Know is that !!

Several people are forwarding a message on WhatsApp & social media platforms claiming that a COVID-19 exposure sensor has been silently “inserted into every phone.” The message is actually referring to the COVID-19 contact tracing system that Apple and Google have jointly built to enable exposure notification on both Android & iPhone devices. However, this doesn’t mean that a tracker has been installed to track your location or any other details. As per the message that has widely spread on WhatsApp, the COVID-19 exposure sensor has been installed on every single Android & iPhone device. The message…

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WWF Report Highlights Lack Of Policy Support For Startups, SMEs !!

On World MSME Day (June 27) the World Wild Fund (WWF) India, has said that only a few policies target the renewable energy startup ecosystem. In a report titled, ‘Clean energy policy landscape in the SME sector,’ it said, while almost 140 government interventions focus directly or indirectly on clean energy and startups, only 38 policies actually target them. “Policy support can be an important catalyst in accelerating clean energy adoption and scale up.  This report maps the clean energy policy landscape in the SME sector, and provides recommendations that…

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Amazon Disables Its Original iOS App in India, Customers Required to Switch to New App or Use Website !!

Amazon has finally disabled its original iOS app for customers in India, and is now asking them to either switch to its new ‘Amazon India – Shop and Pay’ app or use the Amazon.in website to shop from their Apple devices. The new change comes several months after the US e-commerce giant placed a splash screen on its older iOS app encouraging users to switch to the new app that includes support for scanning Unified Payments Interface (UPI) QR codes and sign up for the Amazon Pay UPI service. If…

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Google Pay Is Not Banned, but Is Authorised and Protected by Law, NPCI Clarifies !!

Google Pay is not banned in India, clarified the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI). The NPCI is an umbrella organisation that operates digital payments in India, and developed the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) which is used for payments by platforms like Google Pay, PhonePe, and Paytm. On social media, there is a trending hashtag “GPayBanned By RBI”, accompanied by news that the Reserve Bank said that Google Pay was not a payments system operator. However, soon after this began to circulate, the NPCI has issued a statement confirming that…

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