Google's Gmail service went down for millions of users globally, including in India, on Saturday as most of them complained about mails not being received. The company said mitigation was underway.
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Vedantu lays off 385 employees in 4th job cut round this year
The layoffs have happened across sales, HR, and content teams which, according to the company sources, is part of an aggressive measure to reduce excess burn, thus prioritising profitability over growth.
Delhi HC issues summons to Telegram users in copyright infringement case
The Delhi High Court issued summons to the Telegram -- an instant messaging application -- users who were involved in infringing the India Today Group's trademarks and copyrights.
Twitter serving 90 bn tweet impressions per day: Musk
"Twitter is now serving almost 90 billion tweet impressions per day! Just how incredibly alive the system actually is will become obvious as we show view count on all tweets," he tweeted.
Alternatives like Tumblr, Mastodon see meteoric rise amid shakeup at Twitter
Alternative social media platforms such as Tumblr and Mastodon have seen a meteoric rise in adding new users amid the shakeup at Twitter that has led to a bump in installs, spending and usage for its mobile app.
Musk puts Twitter at risk of 'billions in fines' as more top execs quit
Elon Musk has put Twitter at risk of billions of dollars in fines, a company lawyer has warned, as chief privacy officer Damien Kieran, chief information security officer Lea Kissner, and chief compliance officer Marianne Fogarty have all quit in the fresh wave of resignations.
Some Twitter India employees sacked, remaining staff in constant fear
For some of the nearly 200-strong Twitter India workforce, the Friday morning came with utter chaos when they lost access to their official emails and internal Slack and group chats, as they were unfortunate to be part of the global sacking in the most brutal Elon Musk way.
How three young informants made tech giant Google cough up Rs 1,338 cr fine
Three young informants, Umar Javeed, Aaqib and Sukarma Thapar finally forced the tech giant, Google to cough up a whooping fine of Rs 1,338 crore for abusing its dominant position in multiple markets with its Android mobile operating system.
Twitter to be delisted from New York Stock Exchange on Nov 8
Twitter's new owner Elon Musk has taken the micro-blogging website private and the company's stock will be delisted from the New York Stock Exchange on November 8, a new filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has revealed.
Musk is now Twitter boss, fires Indian-origin CEO Agrawal, other top execs
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has finally taken over as Twitter boss and his first job was to reportedly fire Indian-origin CEO Parag Agrawal, Chief Financial Officer Ned Segal, the company's policy chief Vijaya Gadde and others.
Indian festivities spark up more conversation among daters
According to a survey by dating app QuackQuack, usage of the app significantly increased during celebrations. "We noticed a spike in app downloads at the start of October.
WhatsApp's cloned app spying on Indians via recording video, audio
India is among the countries with highest number of Android trojan detections and a cloned, third-party unofficial version of WhatsApp is leading in spying on people's chats in the country, a new report has warned.
Ola laying off 500 employees from its software verticals: Report
As the sale of its electric two-wheeler declines, ride-hailing major Ola is reportedly laying off nearly 500 employees in another round, this time from its various software verticals of ANI technologies which operates at Ola Cabs.
No private users' data compromised in cyber breach: Uber
An 18-year-old hacker had broken into the internal systems of Uber, reaching company tools including Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform, and employees thought someone was playing a prank.
Twitter had Chinese agent on payroll, India forced it to hire govt agents: Zatko
Twitter whistleblower Peiter Zatko on Tuesday claimed that the Parag Agrawal-led platform hired a Chinese agent working for the country's Ministry of State Security (MSS), and reiterated that the Indian government also "forced" Twitter to hire government agents.
BYJU's logs nearly Rs 10K crore revenue in FY22, tops estimates
While all eyes are on BYJU's much-awaited FY21 financial results that were set to be revealed on Wednesday, the edtech major has registered nearly Rs 9,991 crore in revenues in its FY22 financial results and its core K12 education business is growing very fast, top sources have revealed.
Google warns users to quickly update Chrome to avoid hacking risk
The tech giant said it is aware of reports that an exploit for 'CVE-2022-3075' exists in the wild, mentioning the vulnerability as "Insufficient data validation in Mojo" reported by an anonymous security researcher.
Irish regulator fines Instagram $402 mn over kids' privacy violation
Meta-owned photo and video-sharing platform Instagram has been fined 405 million euros ($402 million) by the Irish Data Protection Commission for violations of the General Data Protection Regulation.
Biggest regret is that Twitter has become a company: Jack Dorsey
Meanwhile, Twitter's former head of security, Peiter "Mudge" Zatko, has claimed that the Agrawal-led platform lied about the actual number of bots on its platform and misled federal regulators about users' safety, creating a storm.
Twitter tells Tharoor-led parliamentary panel it follows strict data privacy
The committee will hear the views of individual/stakeholder/experts on issues related to digital platforms, technology and Gig economy relating to the subject of citizens' data security and privacy.
Big Tech to testify on anti-competitive practices before govt panel on Tue
Representatives of Big Tech like Amazon, Google, Netflix and Microsoft, among others, have been summoned by the Parliamentary Standing Committee of Finance on Tuesday to depose on the subject of anti-competitive practices by tech entities.
Google blocks world's largest web DDoS cyber attack ever
"To give a sense of the scale of the attack, that is like receiving all the daily requests to Wikipedia (one of the top 10 trafficked websites in the world) in just 10 seconds," Satya Konduru, Technical Lead, Google Cloud, said in a statement late on Friday.
Cloud communication firm Twilio hacked, customers' data exposed
According to Bleeping Computer, the SMS phishing messages "baited Twilio's employees into clicking the embedded links by warning them that their passwords had expired or were scheduled to be changed".
Sundar Pichai wishes India on I-Day with Google Doodle
"Happy Independence Day, India! We're commemorating 75 years with a special #GoogleDoodle celebrating family, community and the colourful kites that float in the skies every August 15," the Indian-American CEO wrote on Twitter.
India-based social media accounts linked to anti-Pak army campaign: Islamabad
A joint inquiry team formed by the Pakistan government has detected a total of 774 social media accounts responsible for a bulk of the misleading claims and smear campaign against the military, with many of them found to be operating from India as well as from within the country.