Security experts said Telegram, a Russian app, and Signal, run by a US-based non-profit organisation run by, among others, WhatsApp cofounder, are being viewed as having more secure features and updates. On Google Play, Signal peaked at 31st position in the communications app downloads category in India on Nov 1, a jump from its 255th position a week ago.
CERT-In, the country’s nodal cybersecurity agency, picked up the threat by using internal tools deployed to screen vulnerabilities and published its first advisory to Indian users on May 17, people in the know said. It rated the severity as “high” and said the vulnerability could be exploited by making a “decoy WhatsApp voice call”.
Vikas Agarwal, general manager at OnePlus India, said the next phase of growth will be driven by the offline channel expansion, which started in the third quarter. OnePlus currently has 2,000 offline touchpoints largely through large format retail stores through its partnership with 10 retail chains and own exclusive experience store.
Ride-hailing companies Uber and Ola made presentations before the committee headed by Infosys cofounder Kris Gopalakrishnan a few weeks ago. The panel also met several health and health-tech companies. The committee has sent a list of questions to Amazon, Flipkart and other ecommerce companies, and it expects answers to these during next week’s meeting.
Huawei is approaching a critical juncture in its fight for survival, six months after Washington barred it from buying key US components and software without special licences. Those include Google’s Android operating system, semiconductor design tools from Synopsys Inc. and Cadence Design Systems Inc. and radio frequency chips made by Qorvo and Skyworks.
Indian ITES major Tech Mahindra is in final stages of negotiations to acquire Born (formerly Group FMG), a global marketing & media solutions agency operating and a deal is likely to be signed soon.
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