Thursday, June 24, 2021

Visa buys Sweden-based Tink, which offers open banking APIs used by more than 3,400 banks and financial institutions in Europe, for €1.8B (Simon Clark/Wall Street Journal)

Simon Clark / Wall Street Journal:
Visa buys Sweden-based Tink, which offers open banking APIs used by more than 3,400 banks and financial institutions in Europe, for €1.8B  —  Tink would give Visa a foothold in open banking, which connects consumers to multiple financial institutions  —  Visa Inc. agreed to pay …



Google and Jio Platforms announce JioPhone Next, an affordable phone powered by an optimized version of Android; phone will debut in India on September 10 (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
Google and Jio Platforms announce JioPhone Next, an affordable phone powered by an optimized version of Android; phone will debut in India on September 10  —  Jio Platforms, run by India's richest man (Mukesh Ambani), and Google on Thursday unveiled the JioPhone Next, an affordable Android smartphone …



How job search sites such as LinkedIn, ZipRecruiter, and CareerBuilder are working to remove gender and racial bias from their AI-powered matching algorithms (Sheridan Wall/MIT Technology Review)

Sheridan Wall / MIT Technology Review:
How job search sites such as LinkedIn, ZipRecruiter, and CareerBuilder are working to remove gender and racial bias from their AI-powered matching algorithms  —  ZipRecruiter, CareerBuilder, LinkedIn—most of the world's biggest job search sites use AI to match people with job openings.



Reliance to Invest Rs. 75,000-Crore in Clean Energy 'Giga Factories'

Reliance will invest Rs. 75,000 crores in clean energy and set up Giga factories to make solar photovoltaic cells, green hydrogen, batteries, and fuel cells over the next three years, CEO Mukesh... https://ift.tt/3jcWEdc

Jio, Google Join Hands in Cloud Partnership in Boost to 5G Plans

Reliance Jio and Google is forging a cloud partnership, helping India's biggest wireless carrier with tech solutions for its enterprise and consumer offerings as it plans to launch 5G services. https://ift.tt/3xT4ehp

Realme Narzo 30 vs Xiaomi Redmi Note 10: How the two budget phones under Rs 15,000 compare

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Alibaba releases Qwen3.6-Plus, its third proprietary, closed-source AI model launched within a three-day period, saying it "drastically enhanced" agentic coding (Luz Ding/Bloomberg)

Luz Ding / Bloomberg : Alibaba releases Qwen3.6-Plus, its third proprietary, closed-source AI model launched within a three-day period, s...