CAIT: E-commerce companies creating confusion over new MHA rules

The Centre on Friday made it mandatory for government and private sector employees to use Arogya Setu mobile application to bolster the efforts to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, and entrusted the organisational heads with ensuring its 100 per cent coverage. https://ift.tt/3f4neRg

Telefonica seeks to merge Britain's O2 and Virgin Media

Spain's Telefonica SA is in talks with billionaire John Malone's Liberty Global Plc to explore a merger of its British mobile operator O2 with Liberty's Virgin Media cable network company, two sources familiar with the matter said. https://ift.tt/3d8wWAu

Google's Messages app, which isn't part of Google's apps package often pre-installed on phones by 3rd-party Android OEMs, passes 1B+ installs on the Play Store (Hagop Kavafian/Android Police)

Hagop Kavafian / Android Police:
Google's Messages app, which isn't part of Google's apps package often pre-installed on phones by 3rd-party Android OEMs, passes 1B+ installs on the Play Store  —  Google's Messages app is packed with features, including a built-in markup tool, reminders, context-aware recommendations, a dark mode, RCS support, and a web interface.

Bitfinex's parent firm has applied for subpoenas in three US states asking federal courts to aid in recovering $800M+ in user funds seized by legal authorities (George Chidi/CoinDesk)

George Chidi / CoinDesk:
Bitfinex's parent firm has applied for subpoenas in three US states asking federal courts to aid in recovering $800M+ in user funds seized by legal authorities  —  The Bitfinex crypto exchange is making a new push to find and potentially recover more than $800 million in user funds seized …

India's government has mandated all private sector employees to download its COVID-19 contact tracing app, following its mandate for all the public sector staff (The Economic Times)

The Economic Times:
India's government has mandated all private sector employees to download its COVID-19 contact tracing app, following its mandate for all the public sector staff  —  Privacy activists said a diverse group of organisations and individuals had endorsed a representation to the Prime Minister's Office …

Apple has missed an opportunity by not introducing a product like Facebook Portal by combining different aspects of the Apple TV and HomePod with FaceTime (M.G. Siegler/500ish)

M.G. Siegler / 500ish:
Apple has missed an opportunity by not introducing a product like Facebook Portal by combining different aspects of the Apple TV and HomePod with FaceTime  —  Apple TV should own the living room with FaceTime.  And the Facebook Portal market with HomePod.  And yet...

COVID-19 vaccine: What Bill Gates wants you to know

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Bihar STET Answer Key 2020 – Re Exam Answer Key & Objections Released

Bihar School Examination Board (BSEB) released Re Exam answer key & objections for Bihar STET Dec 2019.

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UPI transactions see biggest monthly plunge

Transactions fall by more than a fourth in April to Rs 1.5 lakh crore; Fastag worst hit https://ift.tt/3dac0J4 https://ift.tt/eA8V8J

Aarogya Setu app must for private sector workers

Privacy activists said a diverse group of organisations and individuals had endorsed a representation to the Prime Minister's Office and various central government ministries opposing the mandatory use of Aarogya Setu. https://ift.tt/3bWXpAO https://ift.tt/eA8V8J

Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, cloud infrastructure spending grew 37% YoY to $29B in Q1, with Amazon at 32% market share followed by Microsoft at 18% (Synergy Research Group)

Synergy Research Group:
Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, cloud infrastructure spending grew 37% YoY to $29B in Q1, with Amazon at 32% market share followed by Microsoft at 18%  —  New data from Synergy Research Group shows that Q1 spend on cloud infrastructure services reached $29 billion, up 37% from the first quarter of 2019.

Indians bet on online gaming to kill boredom

Gaming firms have noted a sharp increase in customers looking to ward off boredom by indulging in games such as poker, rummy and bingo https://ift.tt/2zHEjQL https://ift.tt/eA8V8J

Sources: Bangalore-based education app Byju's is in talks to raise up to $400M at $10B valuation, up from a valuation of $8B in February (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
Sources: Bangalore-based education app Byju's is in talks to raise up to $400M at $10B valuation, up from a valuation of $8B in February  —  Byju's, an education learning startup in India that has seen a surge in its popularity in recent weeks amid the coronavirus outbreak …

UK launches the Cyber Discovery Virtual Cyber School, an online initiative aimed at teaching teenagers cybersecurity concepts (Danny Palmer/ZDNet)

Danny Palmer / ZDNet:
UK launches the Cyber Discovery Virtual Cyber School, an online initiative aimed at teaching teenagers cybersecurity concepts  —  Online initiative looks to inspire a new generation of cybersecurity talent to bring out their ‘digital Sherlock Holmes’ while schools remain closed.

Chinese e-commerce company Club Factory starts grocery delivery

Club Factory has been accused of shipping cheap products to India directly from China after labelling them as gifts to evade customs duty. https://ift.tt/2Yql48T https://ift.tt/eA8V8J