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Twitter to label personal accounts of heads of state from Feb 17
Twitter said it is also updating the label text to add more specificity to the government account labels by differentiating between individuals and institutions, and expanding labels to the personal accounts of heads of state to give people on Twitter additional context.
'We're building in public, join us': Koo blasts privacy critics
"Koo is fully owned by Bombinate Technologies Pvt Ltd and domiciled in India. All data and associated servers are also run out of India. The team is headquartered in Bengaluru," the Koo team explained. Shunwei, the lone global venture capital firm with China links in the Koo structure, has "committed to exiting the company".
Microsoft planned to buy social media firm Pinterest: Report
According to The Financial Times, the tech giant aimed to acquire Pinterest, a platform popular for sharing and discovering recipes, home ideas, style inspiration and other ideas, to create a portfolio of active online communities that could run on its Cloud computing platform.
Instagram to block users who send hateful messages via DMs
"Now, if someone continues to send violating messages, we'll disable their account. We'll also disable new accounts created to get around our messaging restrictions, and will continue to disable accounts we find that are created purely to send abusive messages," Instagram said in a statement late on Wednesday.
Data traffic in India grew 60 times over past 5 yrs: Nokia
In 2020, the data traffic grew by 36 per cent year-over-year primarily due to rise in 4G data consumption as 4G subscribers surpassed 700 million with 100 million new additions during the year, said the Mobile Broadband India Traffic Index (MBiT) 2021 report on mobile broadband performance in India.
US commission backs LG in high-profile trade secret dispute
The ITC on Wednesday issued "a limited exclusion order" for 10 years to ban import of some lithium-ion batteries and its components by SK Innovation, but permitted shipment of components for domestic production of its clients, including Ford Motor, Volkswagen and Kia, considering "public interests."
This Epic Games tool creates digital humans in a jiffy
In addition to speeding up the complex process of digital human creation, it also enables teams of all shapes and sizes to more easily scale and make many types of characters to meet the demands of next-gen platforms and high-end virtual production.
Earshot to bring Dolby Atmos experience to podcasts in multiple Indian languages
Earshot.in has announced the launch of Dolby Atmos immersive audio on the podcast streaming service app. It is the first podcast platform in India to stream podcasts and original series in Dolby Atmos. The step into the new direction promised to provide users with an "a rich soundscape" with focus on "every detail as it was meant to be heard with unparalleled clarity, depth, and realism."
Twitter CEO envisions app store for social media algorithms
"You can imagine an app store like VU, our ranking algorithms that give people optimal flexibility in terms of how they see it. That's where we will be competitive, making sure that we are delivering the best out of a much, much larger corpus of conversation," he said on Tuesday.
HP India going beyond products to help SMBs rebound in 2021
More than 73 per cent of the SMBs in India are confident that they will bounce back after the pandemic. More importantly, 75 per cent of the surveyed businesses believe that digital adoption is essential to their success, according to the recently-released 'HP SMB Outlook Report 2020'.
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