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Amazon.com’s top media executive Jeff Blackburn plans to retire at the start of 2023, the e-commerce giant said on Friday. The company said that the media and entertainment businesses, led by Blackburn since May last year, will be overseen by two current executives, Mike Hopkins and Steve Boom, who will report directly to Chief Executive

Netflix, one of the most used OTT platforms, has recently been used to dupe an elderly man in Maharashtra. A resident of Mumbai recently lost Rs. 1.22 lakh in an incident of fraud while he was trying to renew his Netflix subscription. The incident was reported by the 73-year-old victim at Mumbai’s Juhu police station.

The Indian government has launched DigiYatra facility at three airports across the country. With the new facility, the passengers will now be able to access a seamless entry for their travel at the airports using facial recognition technology. Starting December 1, the DigiYatra facility will be available on IGI airport in the national capital, Kempegowda

If you witness a drop in your follower count on Twitter, then fret not. Twitter’s new boss Elon Musk is working on “purging a lot” of spam/scam accounts. On Thursday, Musk took to his Twitter account and shared the particular update with everyone. He tweeted, “Twitter is purging a lot of spam/scam accounts right now,

Wednesday is celebrating a new record at Netflix, racking up a whopping 341.23 million hours watched during its debut week. The streamer rankings for the period November 21–27 saw the supernatural show topping the TV chart for an English-language series. With these numbers, the Jenna Ortega-led series has surpassed Stranger Things 4’s record — 335

For the eighth day running, the server at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Delhi remained out of order, and according to the sources after the suspension of two analysts from Delhi more are on the radar for suspension for breaching cybersecurity. According to the sources, “The sanitising process started, earlier it was 15

From fake entry permits and betting sites to fake cryptocurrency, cybercriminals have spun all the tricks to lure football fans in the name of the FIFA World Cup, IT security intelligence firm CloudSEK warned on Monday. While India is not part of the FIFA World Cup, the Indian community is reportedly estimated to be the

Twitter could expand its character limit from 280, according to a tweet by new owner Elon Musk. The world’s richest man and Twitter’s new CEO responded to a user on the microblogging platform requesting the higher character limit, stating that it was part of the company’s plan. Twitter is also working on adding encrypted direct

WhatsApp mobile number database of around 487 million users has reportedly been put up for sale on a hacking community forum. These numbers are said to belong to WhatsApp users from 84 countries, from a recent database. The hacker is said to have used a technique called scraping to collect the personal information of these

Vir Das’ latest comedy special is headed to Netflix on December 26. First discovered on the platform’s international listings and confirmed by Gadgets 360 via the Netflix website, his upcoming stand-up special, “Vir Das: Landing,” sees the titular comedian delving deep into his childhood in India, “the perils of outrage, and finding his feet in

Black Friday 2022 has given various e-commerce platforms another reason to attract customers with a wide range of deals and offers. Black Friday sales have been a craze in the US and have started to grow in popularity in India in recent years. We recently covered a list of the best deals on consumer electronics

Amazon, one of the biggest e-commerce websites in India, is reportedly shutting down its food delivery business in December in the country. While Amazon’s food delivery business has not been as successful as Swiggy or Zomato, the announcement comes as a surprise has the company has recently decided to put an end to its edtech

US online retail giant Amazon may be able to end two EU antitrust investigations by the end of the year after tweaking concessions to address concerns over its use of sellers’ data, two people familiar with the matter said on Friday. Settling the EU investigations means the company will avoid a fine of as much

Bollywood legend and veteran actor Amitabh Bachchan filed a suit in Delhi High Court seeking protection of his personality rights, image, voice or any of his characteristics without his consent, following which the court passed an interim ex-parte injunction in his favour. Eminent lawyer Harish Salve along with Ameet Naik and Pravin Anand, instructed by Anand and Naik,

Under a planned amendment to the UK’s new Online Safety Bill, people who share so-called “deepfakes” — explicit images or videos which have been manipulated to look like someone without their consent — will be among those to be specifically criminalised for the first time and face potential time behind bars. The UK government said it

Telecom major Jio has rolled out 5G service across all 33 district headquarters of Gujarat under its trial phase, the company said on Friday.This makes Gujarat the first state to get 5G service across all district headquarters and it is also the biggest roll-out of the next generation service till date on trial basis. Jio has

A group of Indian telecom gear makers have received a mandate from Indian Railways to set up a 5G-based mobile communication network on a trial basis between Palwal and Mathura stations, a senior official of industry body VoICE said on Thursday. The Voice of Indian Communication Technology Enterprises (VoICE) Director General R K Bhatnagar told

Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2022 are just around the corner. These sales usually take place in the US after Thanksgiving and are arguably the biggest annual tech shopping events in the country. Several companies have already started their global promotions, which are also available in other countries. Such deals have begun to catch on

Black Friday 2022 is only a couple of away, but storefronts in the US have already started listing products on sale. The annual event marks the beginning of the holiday shopping season, offering steep discounts across electronics, home appliances, clothing, and more. While Black Friday sales usually weren’t common in India, several e-commerce sites have

Amidst layoffs and a slowing down of the hiring process being seen by large companies as an avenue to strengthen their revenues, global tech major Google has introduced a new performance management system, which could push out thousands of underperforming employees, according to reports. As per a report by The Information, a new performance management