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AWS veteran Bikram Singh Bedi to lead Google Cloud’s India biz
Google Cloud on Thursday announced that Bikram Singh Bedi, who set up the Amazon Web Services (AWS) operations in India, will succeed Karan Bajwa as its new Managing Director for the country.Bajwa has already been elevated to become the new…
YouTube growing fast, Shorts gets 3.5B daily views: Sundar Pichai
Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai has revealed that videos in the new YouTube Shorts player are receiving 3.5 billion daily views, and the company will bring it to more countries in 2021.Shorts is a video-making app like TikTok where…
Twitter suspends several high-profile accounts in India
Twitter on Monday suspended several accounts of high-profile celebrities and organisations, including actor Sushant Singh, Caravan magazine, Kisan Ekta Morcha, Tractor2twitr and several other politicians, farmer leaders, writers and…
Google’s coding competition ‘Hash Code 2021’ goes virtual
Hash Code 2021, Googles flagship team programming competition, is back in a virtual avatar owing to the ongoing pandemic.'Hash Code 2021' will kick off with the Online Qualifications on February 25 and wrap up with the 'Virtual World…
Twitter permanently suspends Donald Trump handle
Social media giant Twitter announced that it is banning US President Donald Trump from its platform, citing "risk of further incitement of violence".On Twitter, Donald Trump's handle is now an empty white page, frozen with 51 followed…
Google testing feature to show videos from Instagram, TikTok
In a bid to retain users on its platform, Google is testing a new feature where Instagram and TikTok videos will appear in their own dedicated carousel in the Google app for mobile devices, the media reported on Wednesday.According to a…
Google to let users turn off YouTube ads for alcohol, gambling
In a respite for millions of users globally, Google has introduced a new control in Ad Settings that will enable people to see fewer alcohol and gambling ads on both Google and YouTube platforms.The feature will roll out in Ad Settings…
Google Fi offering $100 to non-VoLTE customers for an upgrade
Google Fi, a service by Google that provides telephone calls, SMS, and mobile broadband using cellular networks, Wi-Fi will stop activating non-VoLTE phones from January and it is offering a $100 credit to help customers upgrade their…
Twitter allows hardware security keys for iPhones, Android
Twitter has rolled out hardware security key support for Android and iPhone devices, to help users keep their accounts more secure.Now anyone with a security key set up on their Twitter account can use that same key to log in from their…
Twitter kills threaded replies, shuts down beta app twttr
Twitter has turned off its threaded replies experiment as it made conversations hard to read and shut down its beta app called twttr, designed for experiments like threaded replies.The threaded replies experiment was meant to make replies…