Justice Department claims TikTok collected US user views on issues like abortion, gun controlGovernment lawyers wrote in a brief filed to the federal appeals court in Washington that TikTok and its Beijing-based parent company ByteD...
27 Jul, 2024, 11.37 AM IST
ByteDance’s Resso to shut in India on January 31ByteDance’s music streaming app, Resso, will shut its service in India effective January 31, after the Ministry of Electronics and Informat...
13 Jan, 2024, 03.58 PM IST
OpenAI suspends ByteDance’s account over ‘secretly using’ its AI techAccording to a report, internal ByteDance documents confirmed the "OpenAI API has been relied on to develop its foundational LLM". It was c...
16 Dec, 2023, 01.27 PM IST
Ranjan Pai in talks for stake in FirstCry; IT hardware firms may get more time for local manufacturingManipal Group chairman Ranjan Pai is likely to pick up a stake in FirstCry, as part of a secondary share sale. Pai’s Rs 250 crore investmen...
14 Aug, 2023, 07.01 AM IST
TikTok owner bets on Resso & Lark for a Byte of India marketIndia is the world’s largest internet market after China with close to 800 million users and provides a huge opportunity for apps looking t...
12 Aug, 2023, 06.00 AM IST
ByteDance launches Volcano Engine brand to offer TikTok 'secret' to businessesThe algorithm is considered the "secret sauce" behind short-video app TikTok's global success and was one of the focal points when China's ...
10 Jun, 2021, 05.03 PM IST
Online Learning: A solution to disruption in education?Even after the current lockdown is lifted, chances are that social distancing restrictions will persist, preventing congregation in classro...
28 Apr, 2020, 03.07 PM IST
ByteDance makes its remote-work app Lark free in IndiaLark is a platform for collaboration that brings together tools, including Messenger, Online Docs and Sheets, Cloud Storage, Calendar, and ...
01 Apr, 2020, 07.56 PM IST
TikTok-maker is launching Google-like work tools during coronavirus outbreakBy focusing on the local China market first and targeting individual users, ByteDance will try to capture the latent demand in the country ...
11 Mar, 2020, 09.42 AM IST
Cyber Laws Part I: How internet has become a crime sceneInnovation is inevitable, and running away from technology is definitely neither the answer to avoid harm nor is it really going to protect...
03 Nov, 2017, 04.16 PM IST
Meet this ENT surgeon and innovator from Bengaluru, who is also a standup entertainerDr Jagdish Chaturved also innovates medical devices and writes books on the subject.
09 Aug, 2017, 02.48 PM IST
Google's Doodle team head Ryan Germick talks about his love for India's hand painted signs & Satyajit RayGermick said that his team always tries different styles and celebrates topics from across the world.
11 Sep, 2016, 06.06 PM IST
Why beer is making headlinesThis is not any beer. This is beer made from sewage water.
03 May, 2015, 05.34 AM IST
Five of the weirdest Wikipedia pages we've ever seenWe'll probably never be able to find them all, but we can at least compile the strangest of the strange. Here are a few that grabbed our at...
16 Jan, 2015, 10.29 AM IST
A new VC firm announces $100 mn fund for Middle East, Asia, US"We are breaking new ground in the Middle East with the Fenox Global Fund IV," said Brent Traidman, General Partner at Fenox.
12 Apr, 2014, 02.43 AM IST
Hot startup: Airpix builds unmanned aerial vehicles for commercial useA project that began on a lark on a college campus has turned into a commercial venture for a team of three 22-year-old engineers.
28 Oct, 2013, 10.04 PM IST
- India, US troops take part in simulated military operation
Troops of Indian and US armies conducted night operations to neutralise and flush out insurgents hiding in a village in Rajasthan.
13 Mar, 2012, 04.15 PM IST