SAN FRANCISCO: Micro-blogging site Twitter is likely testing a new label "Liked by Author" that appears when the creator of a tweet likes your reply.

NEW DELHI: In a stunning post, Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Friday said that he has put the $44 billion Twitter deal temporarily on hold till he gets to know how many fake or spam accounts are present on the micro-blogging platform.

NEW DELHI: Hit by multiple factors such as rising fuel costs and global component shortages, Indian AC manufacturers said on Friday that they have no alternative but to pass off the burden to the consumers who will have to pay at least three to four per cent more on ACs next month.

BENGALURU: Japanese consumer-to-consumer (C2C) marketplace Mercari Inc on Friday said it is establishing a Centre of Excellence here that will develop IT service solutions for its domestic business in Japan and the US.

BENGALURU: Online food delivery platform Swiggy on Friday announced it has acquired Dineout, a dining out and restaurant tech platform, for an undisclosed sum.

NEW DELHI: Leading crypto exchange Coinbase suffered a major outage amid crypto mayhem especially with the cryptocurrency Terra Luna, heightening fears among the investors.

SAN FRANCISCO: Parag Agrawal has shaken up Twitter, including firing consumer product leader Kayvon Beykpour and head of revenue product Bruce Falck, as the micro-blogging platform gets ready for Elon Musk's $44 billion acquisition to close later this fall.

HYDERABAD: There is no stopping EV fires in India and now, an electric two-wheeler belonging to Gurugram-based Benling India has exploded while being charged in Telangana.

NEW DELHI: Tech company Motorola on Thursday launched a new smartphone 'Motorola Edge 30' with Snapdragon 778G+ 5G processor and 144Hz billion colour pOLED display in the Indian market.

NEW DELHI: As Indian brands dominated the true wireless earbuds (TWS) market once again, local production of these devices reached 14% in the January-March quarter (Q1) with 113 per cent (on-quarter) growth, a new report showed on Thursday.

BEIJING: China's Zhurong rover has found that Mars may have had liquid water hundreds of millions of years more recently than previously thought.

CHENNAI: Russia's integrated nuclear power player Rosatom on Thursday said critical components for the upcoming atomic power plant number 5 at Kudankulam in Tamil Nadu have been made by its group company.

NEW DELHI: Right from the day a Low Pressure Area had formed near Andaman and Nicobar Islands last week, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) had been predicting its track towards northwestwards and also intensity, which included its possible skirting the Andhra Pradesh-Odisha coast and then re-curving towards north-northeast.

NEW DELHI: Google has introduced new pre-paid app subscription capabilities and other changes for Android app developers in emerging markets, including India, to help them generate more revenue.

NEW DELHI: Google has released the second Beta of its Android 13 operating system that offers a slew of new features and user controls, along with updates to privacy and security.

BEIJING: Two years after infection with Covid-19, half of patients who were admitted to hospital still have at least one symptom, according to the study published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine.

GUWAHATI: Tata Technologies Ltd and the Assam government on Wednesday signed an agreement to transform 34 state polytechnics and 43 Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs) into futuristic Centres of Excellence (CoEs) at an investment of about Rs 2,756 crore.

RABAT: Africa has become the main target of the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group by suffering 41 per cent of all its attacks worldwide, Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita told a ministerial conference of the Global Coalition against the IS.

NEW DELHI: Jack Dorsey has categorically said that he will never be the CEO of Twitter again, as reports of him rejoining the micro-blogging platform surfaced after the $44 billion takeover by Tesla CEO Elon Musk.

NEW DELHI: Google has finally announced a Pixel Watch that will arrive along with Pixel 7 smartphone later this fall. The company also showcased its first Android tablet.

NEW DELHI: Apple has announced to discontinue the iPod that was introduced over 20 years ago and captivated users all over the world with music on the go.

NEW DELHI: Tech giant Google announced that it now requires personal loan apps in India to complete the additional proof of eligibility requirements and the deadline for this was set to end on Wednesday.

SAN FRANCISCO: Due to "low usage", Facebook is reportedly discontinuing several services that tracked your real-time location, including Nearby Friends, location history and background location.

SAN FRANCISCO: With an aim to meet the range of today's security demands, Microsoft has announced a new service category called 'Microsoft Security Experts'.

BEIJING: Chinese regulators have moved to ban minors from live-streaming on various social media platforms to protect their physical and mental health, the media reported on Monday.

NEW DELHI: Global investment banking firm Morgan Stanley has said that Reliance Industries is on a path toward a $20 billion+ EBITDA run rate inflection, which could be supported by five major factors. Besides the firm's new energy business could add $50 billion in market cap in 2022.

NEW DELHI: Airtel broadband services that suffered a major nationwide outage which left millions of users without internet on both mobile and desktop for more than two hours were later fixed.

NEW DELHI: The market share of Chromebooks has hit its lowest point in five years, as the demand fell by 67 per cent (year-on-year) in the January-March quarter (Q1), a new report has shown.

WASHINGTON: Three NASA astronauts and one from the ESA (European Space Agency) landed safely on Earth from the International Space Station on Friday.

SAN FRANCISCO: Micro-blogging site Twitter has announced that Spaces hosts and co-hosts can now have access to analytics on both iOS and Android platforms.

LONDON: GPS satellites orbiting the Earth may be more effective in detecting tsunamis, and much faster than the seismic sensors, finds a study.

SAN FRANCISCO: Meta-owned WhatsApp is now rolling out the ability to react to messages to people that use the most recent versions of WhatsApp for Android, iOS, Web and Desktop.

NEW DELHI: Leading omnichannel diagnostics platform Redcliffe Lifetech on Friday said it has raised $61 million led by LeapFrog Investments, and will expand its reach into tier 2, 3 and 4 cities across the country.

LONDON: Substituting 20 per cent of beef with microbial protein -- a meat alternative produced in fermentation tanks -- could halve deforestation by 2050, suggests a study.

LOS ANGELSES: Streaming giant Netflix misled investors about declining subscriber growth over the course of six months leading to a massive drop in its stock price, according to a shareholder lawsuit.