Honor draws up an India-specific plan

Honor became China’s number one online brand in 2018, pipping Xiaomi, and now plans to replicate the success in India.

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Bracing for a quantum leap

The world is likely to face a second ‘Y2K’ problem in 10 years and the time to act on ‘quantum-safe encryption’ is now, experts say.

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Vivo to open research and development centres in India

Vivo, citing the GfK data, said that it grew 63.2% in terms of value and 60.9% in terms of volume in January 2019.

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79% Indian firms lack hacking response plan: IBM

Nearly 79 per cent of Indian firms do not have a computer security incident response plan (CSIRP) in place that is applied consistently across operations, a new IBM-Ponemon Institute study said on Thursday.

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WhatsApp updates India safety factsheet

On April 3, WhatsApp had announced that it is introducing new privacy settings that will force people to seek consent from users before adding them to chat groups.

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Indian ban on TikTok app would harm free speech, says China's Bytedance

Bytedance said users flagged only a tiny proportion of TikTok videos.

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Yahoo to pay $117.5 mn in latest settlement of massive breach

The deal revises an earlier agreement struck last October, only to be rejected by US District Court Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose, California.

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