Zoom down for more than a thousand users: Downdetector

Downdetector showed there were nearly 2,000 incidents of people reporting issues with Zoom at its peak.

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ETtech Evening Briefing on Mar. 3, 2021: Adword wars

Wingreens Farms acquires Raw Pressery for a steal, Infosys bags $500 million deal from Google, India woos Tesla with tax breaks, and other top tech news of the day.

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YuWaah, UNICEF, Capgemini, UNGCNI collaborate to skill India's youth

This initiative will offer a range of opportunities like local demand-based skilling with job matching through quality internships and apprenticeships and promote entrepreneurship.

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PocketPills gets $30 million funding at $150 million valuation

PocketPills, an online pharmacy, is expected to use the funding from investors Telus Ventures and WaterBridge Capital to broaden its product offerings and accelerate its expansion plans in Canada.

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Google says won't use other web tracking tools after phasing out cookies

​Google first announced it would get rid of third-party cookies, which for decades has enabled online ads, early last year to meet growing data privacy standards in Europe and the US.

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Cashinvoice appoints Tata Capital’s Govind Sankaranarayanan to board

Govind Sankaranarayanan, who was also CFO at Tata Communications, has spent a decade establishing Tata Capital as a financial services powerhouse.

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Truecaller launches Guardians, a safety app for women

Truecaller’s Guardians app helps women share their location with family or friends at all or specific times and alert them in case of an emergency.

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