Category: NEWS

LG Electronics will offer free repair of TV power boards in South Korea due to a possible heating risk, Yonhap News reports. The South Korean tech firm said it will replace power board components for 18 OLED TV models, including the OLED 65G8 and the OLED...

Brazil’s central bank will authorize a payments system involving Facebook Inc’s (FB.O) WhatsApp messaging service, to send money and make payments via chats, as long as all rules are respected, director Joao Manoel Pinho de Mello said on Monday, Reuters Reported. “We view the entry...

IBM published second quarter financial results on Monday, reporting its second straight quarter of revenue declines despite beating expectations.  The business technology giant delivered non-GAAP EPS of $2.18 on revenue of $18.1 billion, down 5.4% year-over-year. Analysts were expecting earnings of $2.07 per share on revenue of...

Cloudflare is having an outage that is affecting many sites including Discord, BleepingComputer, and other. The issues started at around 5PM ET, and lasted nearly an hour. Patreon, Deliveroo, GitLab, Zendesk, Medium, and many other sites were also down, and Cloudflare acknowledged issues with its network affected...

The tech giant company Google will ban publishers from using its ad platform to show advertisements next to content that promotes conspiracy theories about Covid-19, CNBC reported. It will also ban ads that promote those theories. In cases where a particular site publishes a certain threshold...

TikTok says it has deleted about 29,000 coronavirus-related videos that broke its rules in Europe alone since the beginning of 2020. The video-sharing app says it does not allow misinformation that could harm an individual’s health or public safety. It said about 3,000 of them...

The streaming giant Netflix on Thursday announced that Ted Sarandos will serve as co-CEO alongside co-founder and CEO Reed Hastings. Sarandos, a 20-year Netflix veteran, will also hold onto his title of Chief Content Officer and is joining the Netflix board of directors.  “Ted has been my...

Video sharing platform TikTok has been fined by a South Korea regulator for mishandling child data.  The Korea Communications Commission (KCC) has fined the company for 186 million won or roughly 155,000 US Dollars. The fine it has imposed on TikTok is due to the...

The tech giant company Google is investing INR 75,000 crores (approximately US$10 billion) to advance India’s digitisation over the coming 5-7 years. Announced in a blog post, Google outlined a $10 billion investment in India’s digitization over the next five to seven years with its...

Samsung has confirmed that it will host a launch event on August 5, which will see the debut of the Galaxy Note 20, and, as expected, it will be online-only. The event will take place on Wednesday, August 5th, at 10AM ET. The company is...

When using an iPad, you’re now able to multitask with Gmail and other iOS applications. You can use Gmail and Google Calendar at the same time with Split View to check your schedule before replying to an email to confirm a meeting time. Or, you...

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has tested positive for COVID-19, he announced today. Bolsonaro himself announced the result, speaking on Brazilian TV channels Tuesday. “Everyone knew that it would reach a considerable part of the population sooner or later. It was positive for me,” he said,...

LG Electronics has posted operating profit of 493 billion won and revenue of 12.8 trillion won in the second quarter of 2020, the company said in its earning guidance on Tuesday, Zdnet reported It is a decline of 24.4% and 18%, respectively, from the same...

Microsoft will hold its Xbox Series X games event on July 23rd at 9AM PT / 12PM ET. If you’re an Xbox fan, this is the event that you won’t want to miss, because as was promised back in May, this is the one where...

Fujitsu has announced it will reduce its office space in Japan by 50% and switch completely to a hot desk system by the end of the fiscal year 2022. Fujitsu said the new plans are part of what the company has dubbed as its “work...

Reliance Joi has launched JioMeet, its video-conference service that looks uncannily like Zoom. On Thursday evening, the firm — backed by Mukesh Ambani, India’s richest man — formally launched, and its apps are already available on Google Play and the App Store. Like Zoom and Google Meet, JioMeet...

Intel said on Friday it will invest $253.5 million in Jio Platforms, joining a roster of high-profile investors including Facebook, General Atlantic, and Silver Lake that have backed India’s top telecom operator in recent months, TechCrunch reported The American chipmaker’s investment arm said it is acquiring...