Facebook appeals its UK fine in Cambridge Analytica scandal

The ICO said a subset of the data was later shared with other organizations, including SCL Group, the parent company of political consultancy Cambridge Analytica, which counted U.S.

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Mobile component makers to invest up to USD 2 billion by March

ICEA said that the industry has vision to increase the total number of mobile phone segment factories to 1,800 and generate 50 lakh jobs by 2025.

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WhatsApp appoints Abhijit Bose as head of WhatsApp India

Bose, who joins WhatsApp from Ezetap where he has served as co-founder and CEO will build WhatsApp's first full country team outside of California and will be based in Gurgaon.

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PC market in India grows 20.2% QoQ to 2.7 mn units in Sept quarter

IDC, in its report, noted that while shipment had grown sequentially, the sales had declined by 10.6 per cent compared to July-September 2017 quarter.

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Google News to fund new ideas for quality journalism in Asia-Pacific

The Asia-Pacific Google News Initiative (GNI) Innovation Challenge will fund selected projects up to $300,000 and finance up to 70 per cent of the total project cost

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Infosys to create 1,200 jobs in Australia, to set up 3 innovation hubs

New Delhi, Nov 21 () IT services firm Infosys Wednesday said it will set up three innovation hubs in Australia and create 1,200 jobs in the country by 2020.

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Karnataka likely to triple IT workforce by 2025

The state is looking to increase the IT contribution to domestic IT products/services revenue from the current 17% to 25% by 2025.

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