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Following a conversation between Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and President Donald J Trump, Microsoft is prepared to continue discussions to explore a purchase of TikTok in the United States, the company said in a statement. With TikTok, Microsoft will be making its first foray into social media, a sphere that has grown as people seek to connect amid the restrictions imposed by the pandemic on physical interactions. (Photo | AFP)

Microsoft keen on buying TikTok US, hopes to convince Trump against...

Tech giant says will build on the experience TikTok users love, while adding world-class security, privacy, and digital...

3 Aug 2020 5:24 AM GMT

Pressure has been growing both from the right and the leftand sometimes internallyto do something about the overwhelming dominance of the internet platforms. In this photo, Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai, Tim Cook and Jeff Bezos. The four CEOs on Wednesday attended an antitrust hearing of the US House Judiciary Committee. (Photo | AFP)

Tech This Week | What we learned from the US antitrust inquiry

Lawmakers seem to be catching up with technology and so will regulation, so Big Tech should not take things for granted.

1 Aug 2020 10:47 AM GMT

Twitter hackers who carried out Bitcoin scam arrested, one a teen, and...

They scammed people of more than USD 100,000 dollars worth bitcoin by hacking Twitter accounts of celebrities and...

31 July 2020 9:27 PM GMT

If Microsoft were to buy TikTok, there would be no ban on TikTok in the US. (Photo | AFP)

TikTok's US operations could be bought by Microsoft, say reports

Microsoft a leading buyer, report New York Times and Bloomberg as Trump likely to order ByteDance to sell or face a ban...

31 July 2020 8:59 PM GMT

Reliance Jio is working along with Google to bring out an affordable smartphone to get 300 million people in India to migrate from their feature phones to Jio smartphones. (Representative Image)

25 years since 2G, Mukesh Ambani wants the network to be relegated to...

2G era feature phones have kept around 30 crore subscribers away from basic internet services, Ambani said.

31 July 2020 2:40 PM GMT

The UK government banned new Huawei 5G equipment purchases from January and told operators to strip out existing gear plugged into the nascent system by the end of 2027. (Photo | AP)

Unaffected by Huawei ban, says UK telecom major BT

UK this month reversed the decision in January to allow China's controversial technology leader to roll out Britain's...

31 July 2020 2:11 PM GMT

Sundar Pichai is CEO of Alphabet, whose profit slumped 30 percent to $6.96 billion from a year back. The online giant relies on digital advertising for most of its income. (Photo | AFP)

Profits of Google parent Alphabet hit by 30 pc over dip in ad sales...

Revenue regained ground in the second quarter in search and at video-sharing platform YouTube, showing signs of...

31 July 2020 12:54 PM GMT

More than 10,000 students will be competing in the Smart India Hackathon to solve 243 problem statements from 37 central government departments, 17 state governments and 20 industries.

Prime Minister Modi to address Smart India Hackathon grand finale on...

The hackathon is a nationwide initiative to provide students with a platform to solve some of the pressing problems of...

31 July 2020 11:59 AM GMT

Canada, France, Germany and Spain too have been trying to get Google and Facebook to pay for news with no success, but Australias law could move things along. (Photo | AP)

Australia's draft law makes it mandatory for Google and Facebook to...

The aggregators will be given three months to work out a deal on fair pay for news, failing which arbitrators will make...

31 July 2020 8:54 AM GMT

Analysts at Canalys said Thursday that Huawei shipped 55.8 million devices in the second quarter of 2020. While the figure was down 5% compared with a year ago, it was a smaller decline than rival Samsung, which saw smartphone sales slide 30% to 53.7 million. (Image of Huawei P40 Pro | Huawei)

Huawei beats Samsung to top spot on smartphone sales as pandemic hits...

The Chinese company's rise is attributed to its home market China emerging from the coronavirus pandemic better off than...

30 July 2020 1:58 PM GMT

This photo provided by NASA, a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket launches at Space Launch Complex 41 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Thursday, July 30, 2020, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. NASAs Perseverance blasted off atop an Atlas V rocket Thursday morning. (Photo |

Perseverance, NASA's Mars Rover, blasts off on mission

The Mars rover rode an Atlas V rocket in the third and final Mars launch of summer 2020, and hopes to bring back first...

30 July 2020 1:25 PM GMT

China promised Hong Kong would have its own governing and legal systems under a one country, two systems principle until 2047, or 50 years after Britain handed back its former colony in 1997. But in justifying the new national security law, China says issues such as separatism are a national security concern and, as such, fall under its purview. (Representative Image | Flickr - Debra Sweet)

China enforces law imposed on Hong Kong, arrests four youngsters for...

The arrested are as young as 16 to 21 years of age and includes one female.

30 July 2020 12:08 PM GMT