Samsung starts manufacturing smartwatches in India

The South Korean company, which has its largest smartphone manufacturing facility in Noida, has also launched a new 4G-enabled smartwatch priced at Rs 28,490 that will be manufactured locally.

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Truecaller says disappointed by Indian Army's ban on app for personnel

In the recent development where the Indian Army has asked its personnel to delete 89 apps from their smartphones including Facebook, TikTok, Tinder, PUBG, Instagram and Truecaller to plug leakage of information. Truecaller spokesperson said it is an app of Swedish origin that considers India it's home.

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Planning significant investment, more hiring in India: Zoom

Popular video conferencing app Zoom is planning to make a significant investment in India over the next five years and ramp up hiring, a top company executive said as he sought to shed any links of Zoom with China ahead of competition from billionaire Mukesh Ambani's just launched JioMeet.

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Collabera brings on board Karthik Krishnamurthy as CEO

In his new role, Krishnamurthy will build upon the company’s existing position as one of the leading providers of technology and talent solutions and expand global capabilities and client reach.

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Mphasis to pay $171,300 to settle discrimination law suit

The US Department of Labor said that ‘the routine compliance evaluation alleges that – between 2015 and 2017 – Mphasis Corp. discriminated against white applicants in favor of Asian applicants for computer systems analyst positions. Mphasis has denied all of the allegations of the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP).

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Virus-tracing apps are rife with problems. Governments are rushing to fix them

In April, reporters at The New York Times found that a government virus-tracing app in India, which had been downloaded more than 77 million times, could leak users’ precise locations. The Indian government immediately fixed the problem and soon began offering financial rewards to security researchers who find vulnerabilities in the app.

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Race is on to take TikTok's vacant short-video crown

Gaana, meanwhile, has launched a new platform — HotShots — which allows users to create and share short videos and stories with its audience base of more than 150 million. Gaana’s chief executive Prashan Agarwal said it is building on the expertise gained from its vertical video feature platform announced last year, to launch HotShots.

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