Microsoft Outage Fixed, Teams and Office 365 Accessible Now

Microsoft said it was rolling out a fix worldwide to enable its services to recover after an update caused access issues for thousands of users, including those on workplace messaging app Teams. https://ift.tt/3czpZJT

Facebook Signs Content Supply Deal With News Corp in Australia

Rupert Murdoch's News Corp reached a content-supply deal with Facebook in Australia, the companies said, a step toward settling a dispute that saw the social media giant briefly shut down thousands of... https://ift.tt/2NkAt7k

Elon Musk Gets New Official Title 'Technoking of Tesla'

Tesla added "Technoking of Tesla" to billionaire CEO Elon Musk's list of official titles in a regulatory filing that also named finance chief Zach Kirkhorn "Master of Coin." https://ift.tt/3rRwK0j

Sources: Google will lower its commission on all in-app purchases from 30% to 15% in South Korea for developers with less than $1M annual sales, starting July 1 (Yonhap News Agency)

Yonhap News Agency:
Sources: Google will lower its commission on all in-app purchases from 30% to 15% in South Korea for developers with less than $1M annual sales, starting July 1  —  Global tech giant Google pushs to lower its planned commission rate for app developers, parliamentary and industry sources said Monday …

Signal app and website are unavailable in China but the app is still available in the App Store; Greatfire says Signal's website was banned on March 15 (Rita Liao/TechCrunch)

Rita Liao / TechCrunch:
Signal app and website are unavailable in China but the app is still available in the App Store; Greatfire says Signal's website was banned on March 15  —  Chinese users of the instant messenger Signal knew that the good times wouldn't last long.  The app, which is used for encrypted conversations …

Government sees faster redressal of complaints after e-commerce rules notified

The Centre said it is seeing faster redressal of complaints after new rules for e-commerce companies with penal action were notified in July 2020. https://ift.tt/2OBqDP9

Redmi Note 10 to go on its first sale today at 12 pm via Amazon

Redmi Note 10 is offered in three colour options of Aqua Green, Frost White and Shadow Black. The smartphone has two RAM models — 4GB and 6GB paired with 64GB and 128GB storage capacity. Both these models are priced at Rs 11,999 and Rs 13,999, respectively. https://ift.tt/3eGYdhp

Flipkart daily trivia quiz March 16, 2021: Get answers to these five questions to win gifts, discount coupons and Flipkart Super coins

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Researchers found that on Amazon, COVID-19 conspiracy books have appeared on the first page of search results for terms like "covid", "covid-19", and "vaccine" (BuzzFeed News)

BuzzFeed News:
Researchers found that on Amazon, COVID-19 conspiracy books have appeared on the first page of search results for terms like “covid”, “covid-19”, and “vaccine”  —  Conspiracy theorist David Icke's lies about COVID-19 caused Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Spotify to ban him.

Sources: Tencent and ByteDance are a testing a new tool called CAID, developed by the China Advertising Association, to bypass Apple's IDFA ad privacy changes (Financial Times)

Financial Times:
Sources: Tencent and ByteDance are a testing a new tool called CAID, developed by the China Advertising Association, to bypass Apple's IDFA ad privacy changes  —  ByteDance and Tencent see if they can keep tracking iPhone users with solution created by state-backed group

Amazon app quiz March 16, 2021: Get answers to these five questions and win Marshall speaker for free

Result of today’s quiz will be announced on March 17. https://ift.tt/3s48aJm

Apple sells more smartwatches and headphones than anyone in the world

According to the latest report by Counterpoint, Apple was the market leader in wearables and hearables in Q4 2020 with a 36.2% market share. The Watch numbers increased by 45.6% and Counterpoint says that it is “thanks to the appeal of three models with different price points (Series 6, Watch SE, Series 3).” https://ift.tt/3vsQIR8

8 smartphones with 108MP primary camera that are available in India

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Redmi Note 10 to Go on First Sale Today at Noon via Amazon, Mi.com

Redmi Note 10 will go on sale for the first time in India today, March 16, at 12pm (noon). The phone starts at Rs. 11,999 and goes up to Rs. 13,999. https://ift.tt/3bO20aD

California approves new regulations under CCPA to prohibit the use of "dark patterns", tricks deployed by websites and apps to frustrate or mislead users (Brianna Provenzano/Gizmodo)

Brianna Provenzano / Gizmodo:
California approves new regulations under CCPA to prohibit the use of “dark patterns”, tricks deployed by websites and apps to frustrate or mislead users  —  New regulations were approved under California's Consumer Privacy Act on Monday that will prohibit the use of so-called dark patterns …