San Francisco | Sharpening the attack on Facebook, a group of US Democrats has asked Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to end his digital wallet and cryptocurrency project, adding that the social network can’t be trusted to manage cryptocurrency. In a letter, Senators Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) and others said that Facebook […]
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Facebook ‘chooses profit over safety’ of its users: Whistleblower
San Francisco | A whistleblower, who leaked a selection of internal documents from Facebook, has claimed that “Facebook over and over again, has shown it chooses profit over safety”. A cache of documents from within Facebook were leaked to the Wall Street Journal by a whistleblower, prompting an exhaustive probe into the social network. Following the […]
Why WhatsApp Payments failed to click in India
New Delhi | Facebook-owned WhatsApp, which kicked off its ambitious peer-to-peer (P2P) digital payments pilot project in India in 2018 with nearly 10 lakh users, has failed to make it a success ever after more than three years of its inception, as the transaction value of Unified Payments Interface (UPI) payments continues to break all records […]
WhatsApp Payments testing ‘cashback’ feature in India
New Delhi | After enabling a new payment chat shortcut, to quickly send payments from the chat bar, Facebook-owned WhatsApp is working on another feature for payments called “Cashback” for Indian users. As the name suggests, users can receive cashback from using WhatsApp Payments after 48 hours, according to WABetaInfo. The company is introducing cashback to […]
Apple hits record pre-orders in India with iPhone 13
New Delhi | The newly-launched Apple iPhone 13 series for which pre-orders were thrown open in India on September 17 have received a similar record response like last year from fans across the country, reliable retail trade sources said on Tuesday. According to industry experts, Apple is set to see a similar run rate for its […]
𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐬 𝐩𝐫𝐞-𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐢𝐏𝐡𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝟏𝟑 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐚 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐲
New Delhi | Apple’s latest flagship smartphones, the iPhone 13, iPhone 13 mini, iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max, will go out on pre-orders in India starting from Friday. The new iPhones will be open for pre-order at 5.30 p.m. through the Apple online store, e-commerce sites, and offline channels. All the four new iPhones […]
𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐢𝐏𝐡𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐗𝐑, 𝐢𝐏𝐡𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝟏𝟐 𝐏𝐫𝐨 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐞𝐝: 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭
San Francisco | With the launch of the new iPhone series, tech giant Apple has discontinued the iPhone XR and the iPhone 12 Pro. According to MacRumors, iPhone XR and iPhone 12 Pro have been discontinued but the iPhone 12, iPhone 11, and iPhone SE are still around as lower-cost options, with all models getting a […]
‘Dum Maro Dum’ inspired tune features in iPhone 13 launch video
New Delhi | Apple CEO Tim Cook announced four new models in the iPhone 13 lineup at the company’s much-anticipated “California streaming” product launch event and what caught the attention of Bollywood fans was the “Dum Maro Dum” tune played at the very start of the promotion video during the event. Netizens were quick to point […]
Apple iPhone 13 India price, sale date announced
New Delhi | Apple has announced India price and availability details of iPhone 13 lineup. Customers can get iPhone 13 Pro for Rs 1,19,900 and iPhone 13 Pro Max for Rs 1,29,900 from apple.com/in/store. Users in Australia, Canada, China, Germany, India, Japan, the UK, the US, and more than 30 other countries and regions will be […]
Apple unveils iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max
San Francisco | Apple has introduced iPhone 13 Pro as well as iPhone 13 Pro Max with an all-new Super Retina XDR display with ProMotion featuring an adaptive refresh rate up to 120Hz and comes in the same size as last year — 6.1 and 6.7 inches. iPhone 13 Pro has been launched at a starting […]