Thursday, 2 July 2020

Bigo takes down short-video app Likee

In compliance with the directives issued by the government, Likee has suspended its service in the country, it said in a statement. The company, however, said that it would work closely with all government authorities concerned on the issue within the framework of local laws.

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TikTok stars get lakhs of new followers on Instagram

Instagram seems to be the most obvious migration platform for the followers of these TikTok stars as they already had existing accounts on the app. Popular young stars like Jannat Zubair Rahmani and Sayyed Arishfa Khan added around 2 lakh new followers each.

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Samsung set to gain amid Chinese handset brands' pain

Samsung may displace Vivo and regain its No. 2 position by September end, if not the end of the June quarter, benefitting from the anti-China sentiment in India and the unavailability of fresh stocks of Chinese smartphones, experts said.

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Wednesday, 1 July 2020

DuckDuckGo goes offline in India; privacy focused search engine in talks with ISPs to resolve issue

DuckDuckGo has emerged as the second most used search engine in the world after Google, due to its focus on privacy. The search engine says it doesn't collect any personal information on those who use it. It also doesn't throw up the IP address of the user.

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Ease of doing business, AI should be focus of digital India: Nilekani

Nilekani, the former chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), was speaking at an event on the fifth anniversary of Digital India. “We have completed one part of the journey, but we have to continue applying technology to governance,” he said.

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TikTok may mount a legal challenge against ban

The platform, owned by China-based ByteDance, was one of 59 Chinese mobile applications that the government banned on Monday, accusing them of causing a threat to national security by stealing and transferring the data of Indian users to locations outside the country.

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For TikTok-ers, reach doesn’t equal moolah

The government on Monday banned 59 Chinese apps, including the most popular TikTok, citing national security concerns. The move has, however, hit hundreds of content creators on the ByteDance-owned app, some of whom used to earn a few lakh rupees promoting branded content.

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