Clubhouse, the Invite-Only Social Media App, Booms in Japan

Clubhouse, a private social audio app, is gaining a lot of traction in Japan. It is now the number 1 free app on Apple's App Store. The latest round of funding valued the company at $1 billion.

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WhatsApp Using Status Messages to Reassure Users of Its ‘Commitment to Privacy’

WhatsApp is now posting status messages to reassure users of its “commitment to privacy” in the latest attempt to keep them from switching to alternate messaging apps. A recent privacy policy update from WhatsApp that mentioned about sharing data with other Facebook products and services has sparked privacy concerns among users.

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Government proposal of Rs 7,000 crore PLI for IT hardware insignificant; at least Rs 20,000 crore needed: MAIT

The Manufacturers' Association of Information Technology (MAIT), whose members include Apple, Dell, HP and Lenovo, wants the government to address various disabilities that the sector faces including improvement in export infrastructure to support growth under the PLI scheme.

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Apple's iCloud passwords Chrome extension released

Apple has rolled out a new Chrome extension for Windows and Mac users that will allow them to store their passwords in iCloud Keychain. The extension, called iCloud Passwords, is available now in the Chrome Web Store.

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Poco M3 to come with 6GB RAM, company announces ahead of February 2 launch

Poco M3 will succeed the Poco M2. Similar to its successor, Poco M3 is likely to be a budget-category phone. The company has confirmed that Poco M3 will come in a single RAM model. As announced by the company in a Twitter post, the handset will pack 6GB RAM.

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LG Wing smartphone gets a price cut of Rs 10,000

Last year in October LG launched its first smartphone with a rotatable screen -- LG Wing in India. The company launched the smartphone at Rs 69,990 and it has now received a price cut of Rs 10,000. You can now buy the LG Wing at Rs 59,990 from Amazon.in and LG.in.

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Union Budget 2021 tech highlights

Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman is presenting Union Budget 2021. Here are all the key highlights for the technology sector

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LG Velvet starts receiving Android 11 update

LG has started rolling out Android 11 update for its last year launched mid-range smartphone -- LG Velvet 5G. The company released the beta build for the update last month and now it has rolled out the stable update of Android 11.

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Micron's Gurtej has more patents than Thomas Edison

Meet Gurtej Sandhu. He’s one of the most prolific inventors in the world. He holds over 1,335 US patents, more than the inventor of the electric bulb, Thomas Alva Edison (1,093 patents). And he was awarded IEEE’s prestigious Andrew S Grove award in 2018 for his contributions to the technology that is used to produce integrated circuits.

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Qualcomm India engineers are behind many foundational wireless tech

Qualcomm has built a lot of the foundational technology that our wireless, digital world is based on. This dominance has been made possible partly by the extraordinary amount of R&D the company does in India. Its 10,000 employees across centres in Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Chennai and Noida account for about a quarter of the total Qualcomm workforce.

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How cloud and SaaS are changing TV, OTT

The Australian Open is on right now. In the pre-quarter stage, there could be as many as 16 matches happening simultaneously. What television viewers get are highlights of each match. If an Indian is playing in one of those matches and you want to watch the full match live, you can’t.

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Xiaomi sues U.S. to overturn Chinese military designation and share investment ban

The U.S. designated Xiaomi as one of several "Communist Chinese military companies" which restricts Americans from buying shares in the smartphone firm.

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How to enable offline support for Google Calendar on web from your computer

Google rolled out a new feature that will allow users to use Google Calendar on Google Chrome from your computer even without internet connectivity.

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Amazon app quiz February 1, 2021: Get answers to these five question to win Rs 5,000 in Amazon Pay balance

There is usually one winner of the quiz whose name will be announced on February 2.

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Flipkart quiz February 1, 2021: Get answers to these five questions to win gifts, discount coupons and Flipkart Super coins

Only the first 50,000 participants will be eligible for the quiz prize.

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Read Kishore Biyani's letter to the company's employees on 'Amazon fight'

As reported first by TOI, Biyani has called Amazon a dog in the manger, who is going all out to create a ruckus through a concerted and coordinated media campaign. While thanking employees for their strong support, he wrote about the necessity of the deal with Reliance to tide of the crisis that the retail industry was facing due to the pandemic

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