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Twitter suffers outage for web users in India amid new CEO buzz
According to Downdetector, a website that monitors app outages, users in Twitter started facing the problem around 6 p.m. especially on the web version. Nearly 81 per cent users faced problems with the Twitter website, 10 per cent with the feed and 9 per cent on the mobile app at that time. Twitter was yet to report the cause of the outage. It is one of those platforms.
Unwise for India to place bans on private crypto assets: Report
The Indian crypto asset industry has witnessed exponential growth over the last five years. Analysts suggest that more than 15 million Indians now hold digital currencies. As a result, cryptocurrencies, like any other financial asset, need to be regulated in order to ensure consumer welfare as well as promote innovation. This is the key finding of Regulating Crypto Assets in India.
Tesla Cybertruck will have yoke steering wheel: Musk
According to Electrek, Musk also said that the electric pickup truck will be a "technology bandwagon". It could mean that it will have a better version of the new steering wheel, the report said. The CEO mentioned that the Cybertruck will bring a lot of new technology. "Cybertruck will reach far into a post-apocalyptic future and bring that technology to now," Musk said.
India to see 500 mn 5G mobile subscriptions by 2027: Report
The number of smartphone subscriptions is expected to be 810 million at the end of 2021 and is projected to grow at a CAGR of 7 per cent, reaching over 1.2 billion by 2027 in the country, according to the mobility report by Swedish telecommunication giant Ericsson. The average traffic per smartphone in the India region is the second-highest globally and is projected to grow to around 50GB per month in 2027.
Netizens slam new Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal over old tweet on racism
In 2010, when he was not even an employee of Twitter, Agrawal quoted a comedian mocking racism and Islamophobia in America. "If they are not gonna make a distinction between Muslims and extremists, then why should I distinguish between white people and racists," Agrawal said in the tweet posted on October 26, 2010. Questioning this, Republican Ken Buck, who represents Colorado's Fourth Congressional District, asked how users could trust Twitter's new CEO to treat everyone equally.
Noise unveils new earbuds at Rs 2,499
The earbuds will be available on offline and online channels in three colour options -- black, white and blue. "With a long-lasting playtime and ANC mode, Noise Air Buds Pro offers the best-in-class features and experiences," Gaurav Khatri, Co-founder, Noise, said in a statement. "Our newly launched set of TWS earbuds are carefully designed keeping in mind the needs for extended calls, fitness enthusiasts, music fanatics and binge-watchers. We are aggressively expanding its portfolio of TWS earbuds to be ahead in the market," Khatri added.
UK competition regulatory board likely to block Meta's Giphy deal: Report
Tech giant Meta which was previously known as Facebook had moved to buy Gift in May 2020, however, the UK competition regulator has raised concerns in regard to the deal and provisionally ruled in August that Meta should be forced to sell Giphy, as per financial times report. The regulators will be making their final call regarding this matter by December 1, it added.
Parag Agarwal joins elite club of Indian-origin CEOs
Agarwal joins Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Adobe President and CEO Santanu Narayan and IBM Group CEO Arvind Krishna, who are currently leading global corporations. Besides, the elite club has other honchos like Mastercard's CEO Ajay Banga, Arista Networks' CEO and President Jayshree V. Ullal, Micron Technology's CEO Sanjay Mehrotra and Reckitt Benckiser's CEO Laxman Narasimhan.
As IIT, central school boy Parag Agrawal breaks into born-in-India US CEOs XI, a listing of alma maters
Satya Nadella, Chairman and CEO of Microsoft, attended Hyderabad Public School, Begumpet, and did electrical engineering at Manipal Institute of Technology in Karnataka. Nadella then shifted to the US for an M.S. degree in computer science at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
Jack Dorsey quits as Twitter CEO, announces IIT man Parag Agarwal as successor
Confirming long-standing speculation that he would, @Jack, Dorsey's handle for 18 years, enigmatically said: "not sure anyone has heard but," and attached a one-page version of why and who. Indian-American Parag Agarwal, Twitter @paraga, is the new CEO, with immediate effect, Dorsey announced. Agarwal attended Kendriya Vidyalaya (Central School) and IIT Mumbai and followed it with a Stanford PhD and ten years at Twitter.
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