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Debt-Led Telecom War May Blow $74 Billion Hole in India’s Budget

Aggressive price wars that pushed some calls below a penny per minute in India may be catching up with wireless carriers. Mountains of debt could hinder their bidding for airwaves in next month's auction, potentially blowing a $74 billion (roughly Rs. 4,92,140 crores) hole in...

New Challenge for Social Media: Policing Violent Live Videos

By DEEPA SEETHARAMAN Horndiplomat-in handling clips like the fatal shooting of Dallas officers highlights monitoring difficulties Two and a half hours after a Minnesota woman live-streamed the bloodied body of her boyfriend after he was fatally shot by police during a traffic stop on Wednesday, FacebookInc....

Huawei sees 85% of enterprise apps becoming cloud-based

HUAWEI PREDICTS that by 2025 all enterprise IT solutions will be “cloudified”, and more than 85 per cent of enterprise applications will be cloud-based. Every company will integrate its core business with the cloud, and will be on the look-out for cloud solutions that best...

EU Lawmakers Are About to Try Making Google Pay for Google News

It failed in Germany and Spain, so why not take the idea EU-wide? The European Commission is about to propose a law that would let news publishers across the EU try to charge companies like Google GOOG 0.24% for reproducing parts of their...

Samsung formally recalls the Note 7 in the US

After weeks of investigation, the US Consumer Product Safety Commission announced a formal recall of the Galaxy Note 7 in conjunction with Samsung today. The move outlines the problems with the phone's exploding battery and puts in place a path for consumers to return or...

Twitter denies rumors of shutting down in 2017

Twitter Inc denied on Thursday rumors that the social media messaging service will be shutting down in 2017, denouncing the claim as groundless. "There is absolutely no truth to the claims whatsoever," a spokesman for Twitter said in an emailed response to a Reuters request...

Microsoft apologises after Bing translates ‘Daesh’ into ‘Saudi Arabia

The text translator’s blunder put down to crowdsourced suggestions after anger from Saudi officials and social media called for countrywide boycott Microsoft has been forced to apologise after its Bing translation service suggested that the Arabic name for Islamic State “Daesh” meant “Saudi Arabia” in...

Twitter Is Making It Easier to Request a Verified Account

Horndiplomat-Twitter is making it easier for its users to request one of the little blue verified account checkmarks that many celebrities, musicians and other public figures have. The social media network announced Tuesday that it will soon start accepting and reviewing applications for verification. Beginning...