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Amid global tech churning, Salesforce announces expansion plans in India

As tech companies go through churning at a global level, enterprise software major Salesforce on Thursday announced to spread its India footprint by expanding the Centre of Excellence (CoE)

Tech execs race to save startups from 'extinction' after SVB collapse

Altman, who runs one of Silicon Valley's hottest companies, bailed out some entrepreneurs from his own pocket, according to a Twitter message by his brother and one beneficiary

Meta surprises analysts with good results, $40 billion stock buyback

The company reported a revenue of $32.17 billion for the fourth quarter (down four per cent Y-o-Y) and $116.61 billion for the full year

US sues Google to break up ad-technology unit in heated antitrust fight

Google said in blog post that the lawsuit "attempts to pick winners and losers in the highly competitive advertising technology sector

Needed to streamline our costs: Amazon CEO Andy Jassy again defends layoffs

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy has again defended massive layoffs at the company, saying, "we just felt like we needed to streamline our costs"

Elon Musk blames 'activists' for his Twitter moderation council lie

After reinstating accounts back onto Twitter even after promising that decisions would be taken by a content moderation council, CEO Elon Musk blamed "activists" for his moderation council lie

Twitter pauses 'official' labels on accounts, impersonation still underway

A tweet from the 'Twitter Support' account read, "We're not currently putting an "Official" label on accounts but we are aggressively going after impersonation and deception."

Google, Microsoft, TI announce disappointing results; tech stocks tumble

Google parent Alphabet Inc. fell as much as 7.4% after third-quarter revenue came in below expectations, while software giant Microsoft Corp. lost 8.1% following a disappointing revenue forecast

We will be hosting five creator days this year in India: Meta's Ajit Mohan

For Meta ramping up short-video is important because of the competition from players like Google's YouTube Shorts, and home grown video platforms like Moj, ShareChat and Josh.

Made in India iPhones to be 5-7% of Apple's global supply this year

As Apple gears up for the launch of iPhone 14 on September 7, its plants in India are also gearing up to manufacture more of these phones to contribute more to Apple's global supply

Apple Inc targets Sept 7 for iPhone 14 launch in flurry of devices

The new iPhones will kick off a busy fall product season, which will also include multiple new Macs, low-end and high-end iPads, and three Apple Watch models

Microsoft planning to release Windows 11's next big update in Sept: Report

The company is also adding a new Live Captions accessibility feature with 22H2, which is ideal for people who are deaf, hard of hearing, or anyone who wants to caption audio automatically

Apple lays off recruiters in a push to rein in hiring and spending

About 100 contract workers were let go in a rare move for Apple, the world's most valuable company

Google again sues Sonos for copying smart speaker, voice control tech

The tech giant filed two lawsuits in US District Court for the Northern District of California, and plans to file similar lawsuits with the US International Trade Commission soon, reports The Verge

Google starts Street View in India with local partners after policy change

Tech Mahindra and mapping firm Genesys will work with US technology giant to 360-degree view of streets, landmarks

Megacap tech earnings in Q2 have investors looking past the Fed decision

And two titans of the tech industry are giving investors cause for optimism

Snapchat's parent company onboards US Secret Service chief James Murray

In his new role, Murray will help protect the safety and security of the company's employees and will also work with law enforcement when necessary

Apple corporate attorney pleads guilty to insider trading for over 5 years

From February 2011 to April 2016, Gene Levoff misappropriated material, non-public information about Apple's financial results and then executed trades involving the company's stock

Proposed privacy code promises tough rules, $10 mn fines for tech giants

This week the federal government announced proposed legislation to develop an online privacy code

Russian SolarWinds hackers step up attacks on US tech companies

Microsoft says group targeted over 150 American and foreign organisations using USAid account