Mobile Premier League (MPL), one of the fastest growing mobile eSports platform in India Wednesday, announced a Series A investment of USD 35.5 million, led by Sequoia India, Times Internet, and GoVentures with participation from other investors including RTP Global, BeeNext, Base Growth, and Venture Highway. The funds will enable the newly launched mobile gaming […]
Voters standing in a queue at a polling station during the second phase of Lok Sabha Election in Coimbatore on April 18, 2019. (Prakash Chellamuthu / BCCL, Coimbatore) Voting for Phase 3 of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections will commence tomorrow across 15 states and union territories for 116 constituencies. All seats in Gujarat, Goa, […]
Popular voice assistants such as Siri and Alexa have become the go-to search tool for consumer queries. Top companies such as Microsoft, Google and Amazon are offering Voice technology feature on various handheld devices through services such as Google Home and Amazon Echo. With voice recognition becoming a standard in products, tech companies are showing […]
Prison staff are using technology to find and seize phones used illegally by inmates in England and Wales. New detection kits can narrow a phone’s location down to a single jail cell, the Ministry of Justice said. Staff get an alert when a phone is detected, which helps them track inmates organising drug smuggling or […]
Black hat SEO refers to unethical practices to help a website rank higher in Google. Often times, a website doesn’t even know it’s suffering from black hat search engine optimization — and being penalized for it. Though black hat can temporarily help a website rank higher in Google, search engines will ultimately demote it for […]
Photocredit: Oliver Berg/dpa Photo by Oliver Berg/picture alliance via GETTY To: Dara Khosrowshahi, CEO Uber From: Bob Zukis, CEO DDN and Professor, USC Marshall School of Business Dear Dara, Congratulations on your upcoming IPO. The data in your S-1 is very informative and speaking as an Uber customer, so is your technology. Your innovations in on-demand […]
Anyone who works in marketing knows: unless your website reaches the first page of the search results for your desired keywords, it’s highly unlikely you’ll get the traction you need to reach the customers you want. And in a marketplace as vast and competitive as, well, the entire internet, it can feel like a pretty […]
Social media posts from parents can hurt their childrenPHOTO: ISTOCK If you’re on social media, you’re most likely bombarded every single day with an onslaught of social media updates about people’s daily lives. Many of these are from parents who may be potentially well-meaning but are engaged in extreme over-sharing about their children’s every move. […]
‘For individual countries, the news is mostly bad, and Australia is not immune. The IMF has cut the projection for Australia’s GDP growth this year from the 3.1% it made a year ago to just 2.1%’ Photograph: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images The IMF has downgraded forecasts for economic growth across the world in its latest world economic […]
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