Twitter cleared on Friday that the US antitrust waiting period for Elon Musk’s $44 billion acquisition of the social media giant had expired. Now, completion of the deal is subject to remaining customary closing conditions, including approval by Twitter stockholders and any other regulatory approvals.Read More
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An Australian court on Monday ordered Google to pay a former lawmaker A$715,000 ($515,000), saying its failure to take down a YouTuber’s “relentless, racist, vilificatory, abusive and defamatory campaign” of videos drove him out of politics.Read More
WhatsApp reactions are rolling out to all users to take on the likes of Telegram and Apple’s iMessage. WhatsApp is also bringing an expanded file size limit of 2GB as well as groups with a limit of 512 members.Read More
American law enforcement officials and experts on extremism are taking increasing notice of the sprawling online space devoted to guns and gun rights. The federal authorities have also taken notice, increasing funding for investigations into domestic terrorism.Read More
Fortnite is back on iPhone for free — thanks to Microsoft. Xbox Cloud Gaming users will now be able to play “Fortnite” for free on Android, iOS, and Windows devices.Read More
WhatsApp is said to be working on an ‘Undo’ button, which would allow users to retrieve deleted messages. This feature was supposedly spotted in the Android beta version 2.22.13.5 of the app.Read More
Facebook announced its plans to discontinue the Nearby Friends feature. The company is also dropping other location-based features like weather alerts and background locations. Users can download their location data from the platform before August 1 this year.Read More
The Information and Broadcasting Ministry on Saturday asked Twitter and YouTube to remove from their social media platforms the videos of advertisement of a perfume brand that triggered outrage for “promoting gang rape culture”Read More
World’s main central bank umbrella group, the BIS, has demanded for individuals and firms to be given more control over the data harvested on them by social media, Big Tech firms and banks. In a pa[er published on Thursday, the BIS mentioned while most countries already have some laws around data use, most individuals are…
India’s smartwatch market grew 173 percent YoY in Q1 2022, according to the most recent Counterpoint data. Noise led the market in the first quarter with a market share of 23 percent. Fire-Boltt came second for the first time with a 21 percent market share. Boat was placed in third spot with a 16 percent…