Google is finally doing away with Google Plus. In case you did not know, Google Plus is the company’s failed social network which once aimed to compete with the likes of Facebook. Google has already shut the end-user version of Google Plus. And now it is pulling the plug on the enterprise version as well. Google is replacing Google Plus with Google Currents. The iOS & Android apps of the social networking platform have already been re branded. Currents is available to everyone starting today. Aimed at enterprise users, Google Currents…
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Kashmiri student develops FileShare Tool, an Indian alternative to popular Chinese app SHAREit !!
The ban of Chinese apps, coupled with the demand for ‘Made in India’ apps, has fueled the local talent to develop new alternatives. One such made in India app is the FileShare Tool which has been developed by a boy from Kashmir. FileShare Tool has been launched as an alternative to SHAREit, a popular Chinese app that was recently banned by the Indian government. FileShare Tool, as the name suggests, is an app for sharing files between all these devices. The application is available for download on the Google Play Store and has an…
Read MoreWhatsApp, Messenger may join hands to take on Apple and Google messages !!
As the world continues to battle with Covid-19 this year, in the domain of messages, the biggest tech names in the world are setting up to battle each other for the billions of users across the world. There are major updates on this front coming in for almost all the platforms this year – Apple is getting the iOS 14 update which is going to come with features that will be target WhatsApp, Google is working on adding to end-to-end encryption to RCS messaging and thereby closing in on the security issues…
Read MoreAmazon, Facebook, Apple, Google CEOs to testify to House on July 27 !!
Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai and Tim Cook are likely to face a torrent of critical questions from lawmakers on the panel’s antitrust subcommittee as the investigation builds a case for revamping antitrust enforcement. Bezos may be in for a particularly tough session. Unlike the other chiefs, the world’s richest man will be addressing Congress for the first time, and his company has sparred with subcommittee Chairman David Cicilline over previous testimony by another company official and allegations of anticompetitive conduct. The appearances may be virtual, according to the Monday…
Read MoreElements promises a fix after several users report OTP registration failure !!
The new homegrown social media app ‘Elements’ launched this Sunday but users have not been unable to register on it. The team behind Elements has updated saying that they’re working on it. Many users posted on Twitter saying that the OTP for Elements is failing to generate. Due to that, eager users haven’t been able to experience the new social media app at all. The app has already garnered over 1 million downloads on Google Play Store in just the first 24 hours of its launch. Elements said it is working on…
Read MoreBharat Bond ETF-Series II: A Safe option, but should you invest?
The second tranche of the Bharat Bond ETF (exchange traded fund), managed by Edelweiss mutual fund, will be up for subscription from July 14. Just like the first tranche of December 2019, the second offer will come in two variants: a 10-year ETF that will mature in April 2030 and a five-year product that will mature in 2025. What is this bond about? The Bharat Bond ETF is India’s first to corporate debt ETF. Companies approach the firm managing the bond ETF with their borrowing requirements. The bond ETF raises…
Read MorePM Modi announces launch of Aatmanirbhar Bharat App Innovation Challenge, invites startups, tech community to participate !!
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on July 4 announced that the launch of a challenge to facilitate members of the Indian tech and startup community in creating world-class ‘Made in India’ apps. “To help our start-up and tech community achieve this objective, Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology along with Atal Innovation Mission are coming up with the Aatmanirbhar Bharat Innovation challenge. This shall run in two tracks: Promotion of Existing Apps and Development of New Apps.” The challenge aims to promote those who may have the such a working product or if feel they have the…
Read MoreHot Stocks Nifty may retrace to 10,300; buy these 3 stocks for double-digit returns !!
Nifty gave a surprising for move by climbing ‘the wall of worry’ i.e. 61.8% retracement levels of the entire fall of March and has managed to give the highest weekly closing of the last 16 weeks. Meanwhile, weekly Heikin Ashi candle continued as a bullish flat bottom pattern and formed a higher high and higher low pattern, clearly suggesting that bulls are in domination and prices are ready to soar further. Daily RSI is sustaining above its 9 SMA also adding strength to the current ongoing movement. The key target…
Read MoreZoom speaks up on rival JioMeet sharing the same features, UI design !!
From the time the lockdown started across the globe, video conferencing platform Zoom witnessed an unprecedented spike in usage. And it made sense, people were working from home and they needed a platform to easily coordinate all those important office meetings, teachers and professors needed to conduct classes and the list goes on. Zoom encashed on this opportunity so well that other video-conferencing platforms like Google Hangouts, Microsoft Teams, WhatsApp etc started adding features to keep up. These included increasing the number of people allowed to chat at a time, backgrounds etc. Many…
Read MoreIndian govt launches Digital India AatmaNirbhar Bharat App Innovation Challenge to promote existing apps, launch new one !!
Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MeitY) and MyGov in partnership with Atal Innovation Mission, Niti Aayog has announced the Digital India AatmaNirbhar Bharat App Innovation Challenge for Indian tech entrepreneurs and startups. Working towards the aim of creating an AatmaNirbhar Bharat, this competition will promote existing apps and also help develop new ones. In the first leg that has been launched today the best Indian apps that are already being used by citizens, and appear to have the potential to scale up and become world-class apps in their own categories,…
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