Google tells U.S. lawmakers it is mulling options on China services

Google said it was "unclear" if it would move forward with a search engine in China, and that it was "not in a position to be able to answer detailed questions."

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Facebook purges 800-plus spam accounts, pages

The banned accounts and Facebook sites exhibited “coordinated inauthentic behaviour” such as working together to make the pages appear more popular than they actually are.

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No internet shutdown in India: Cyber Security official

This has been necessitated to counter the rising incidents of cyber attacks, Russia Today cited ICANN as saying. However, ICANN later clarified that the report had a "clickbait" headline and that the impact on users would be minimal.

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Facebook says attackers stole details from 29 million users

Facebook Inc said in late September that hackers stole digital login codes allowing them to take over nearly 50 million user accounts in its worst security breach ever.

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Kerala to increase IT park space to 2.3 crore square feet

“As a priority sector, the government is giving emphasis on creating a necessary social milieu and basic infrastructure in the IT sector, aiming at increasing software export and attract investors,” Vijayan said.

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US firm Ametek opens India tech centre in Bengaluru

Pennsylvania-headquartered global maker is expanding its capabilities to meet a strong growth in the Indian market, in which it forayed a decade ago.

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Negligible impact seen on internet service due to upgradation of keys at servers: ICANN

ICANN has asked all internet service providers to upgrade their software that resolves the website name in to digital code and directs the traffic to right server.

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