industry updates

Tik Tok is soon going to face some serious competition from Facebook’s new short video app

As Facebook ropes in former Google employee Jason Toff for a key portfolio, speculation is rife about the social networking giant preparing the launch of a serious competitor to the short video-sharing app TikTok.

Oculus co-founder predicts the failure of Facebook’s dream of implementing VR Tech

16 Million Indian Influencers in Instagram have Fake Accounts

Xiaomi wants better camera tech, opens R&D center in Finland

Microsoft bids farewell to all of its iconic Windows games

Software giant Microsoft is killing all of its iconic Internet games including Hearts, Spades, Checkers, Backgammon, MSN Go and Reversi from Windows version XP, ME and 7.

Twitter users face second service disruption in one week!

Twitter users on Thursday found themselves unable to log onto the platform as the US social media giant experienced the second service outage in a little over one week.

Apples has postponed it AR, VR dream

In what could be bad news for the tech industry, Apple has reportedly shelved plans to develop its Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) headsets.

Ashutosh Gupta as country manager for LinkedIn India

Professional social networking platform LinkedIn July 8 said it has appointed Ashutosh Gupta as country manager for India, effective September 2, 2019. He replaces Mahesh Narayanan, who was the country manager for India from January 2019 to June 2019.

Apple Shares take a dip after analyst downgrades it to ‘sell’ over slow sales

Apple shares fell nearly 1.5 percent on Monday after research and investment banking brokerage firm Rosenblatt Securities downgraded the iPhone maker to “sell” from “neutral”.

Huawei founder : Apple my role model on unlocking users’ data

For Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei, Apple is his role model in a scenario where the Chinese government requests the company to unlock its devices which might go against the users’ interests.