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Meta challenges Indian anti-trust body's order against WhatsApp data sharing practices
Facebook-owner Meta may "roll back or pause" some features in India due to an order by the country's competition authority barring WhatsApp
Jan 15, 20252 min read


AI Effect: Global banking industry may slash workforce by 200,000 within next 5 years: Report
The global banking industry may cut as many as 200,000 jobs in the next three to five years as AI becomes more commonplace, a survey has rev
Jan 12, 20251 min read


China halts workers' travel to India Foxconn factory; iPhone production likely to be hit
https://restofworld.org/2025/china-foxconn-factoriesfoxconn-stops-sending-chinese-workers-to-india-iphone-factories/
Jan 11, 20251 min read


OpenAI losing money, products' use more than expected: Sam Altman
OpenAI is losing money because its top tier subscribers are using its products way more than the company expected, the firm's CEO Sam Altman
Jan 6, 20252 min read


Apple to pay $95 million to settle Siri 'privacy violations' lawsuit
Apple has agreed to pay $95 million in cash to settle a proposed class action lawsuit that claimed the firm's Siri chatbot heard on users' c
Jan 3, 20251 min read


Doom-themed CAPTCHA grabs users' attention
CAPTCHAs have been used since the early days of the internet to tell humans from bots. The test is deployed
Jan 2, 20251 min read


NPCI defers UPI market share ruling by 2 years; major relief to Google Pay, PhonePe
The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) on Tuesday deferred by two years the implementation of market share cap for UPI firms.
Dec 31, 20241 min read


Russian firms accepting payments in Bitcoin: Minister Anton Siluanov
Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov on Wednesday said several companies in the country have begun using Bitcoin as international payment
Dec 26, 20241 min read


Indian-origin techie Sriram Krishnan appointed AI policy advisor by Donald Trump
US President-elect Donald Trump on Monday appointed Indian-origin Sriram Krishnan the senior policy advisor for AI at the White House Office
Dec 23, 20242 min read


YouTube launches crackdown against clickbait, starting with India
YouTube is launching a crackdown against "clickbait" videos that try to mislead the viewers into clicking on a thumbnail which does not show
Dec 21, 20241 min read


'Starlink not active in India,' says Musk after police seizure shows satellite device
"Starlink is not active in India," Elon Musk said, as he parried the charge of enabling "terror" in the Indian northeast after a Starlink de
Dec 18, 20241 min read


Apple to start making AirPods in India for first time
Foxconn will manufacture the wireless earphones at a factory near Hyderabad in Telangana in early 2025.
Dec 15, 20241 min read
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