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In an attempt to combat digital terrorism, Twitter has suspended 360,000 accounts linked to terror activities since middle of 2015. The company is its official blog postsaid that it has suspended an additional 235,000 accounts for violating company’s policies related to promotion of terrorism in the six months since February 2016. Twitter said that earlier this year, it has suspended more than 125,000 accounts since mid-2015 for “violating longtime prohibition on violent threats and the promotion of terrorism and shared a number of steps to combat such content. Since then, the...

The consumer internet search platform AskMe has reportedly suspended its operations, laying off nearly 4000 employees. The company said t have taken the decision because of severe cash crunch. According to some media reports, its primary investor, Astro Holdings defaulted on payments to sellers, own employees and other dues. The bills had amounted up to $15 Million from January 2016, and since Astro has 98.5 percent stake in AskMe, the company had to rely on just one source of income, Track.in reported. The Gurugram-based company’s e-commerce website is still live but is...

Intel, the world’s biggest semiconductor maker is reportedly planning to manufacture ARM based smartphone chips. The company has entered into a new licensing agreement with competitor ARM to produce ARM-based chips in Intel factories. The deal was announced at the Intel Developer Forum recently and will let Intel offer third-party semiconductor companies its most advanced 10-nanometer production lines for manufacturing the complex chips usually used in smartphones. Intel, which gets the majority of its revenue from making personal-computer processors, has missed the boat to larger and faster-growing phone market. Now Intel is...

Huawei, world’s third largest smartphone seller will commence its local manufacturing unit in India soon. The company hinted that it would roll out manufacturing plans in the country within a month. “Now we already have licences for manufacturing in place. In short term we will announce our local manufacturing plan…in one month,” PTI report quoted Peter Zhai, President for Huawei India Consumer Business Group as saying. “As international brand, we are interested in developing our India business at right time. It is going to be second largest mobile devices market after China....

India’s internet user base will touch 730 million by 2020, the latest report by Nasscom and Akamai Technologies has revealed. According to ‘The Future of Internet in India’ report, India, whose Internet user base is second largest after China, will remain the fastest growing market. Globally, the number of Internet users is expected to touch 4170 million by 2020. The growth of the Internet has successfully created a strong ecosystem for new businesses to tap into growing markets and create solutions to address their demands. Speaking at the launch, R...

Astrum Holdings, an IT periphery company, has revamped its brand by adding newer product segments giving wider basket of offerings to its partners and customers. The new additions to the Astrum range of products are Mobile accessories, Smart lifestyle products, IT Peripherals, cables for IT, Audio, Video, Mobile segment and LED lights. According to the company this brand revamping represents its future direction and celebrates its journey of the last four years in IT peripherals segment. “It’s been a fantastic journey, started off as just a peripherals company and revamping...

HostGator India has announced its support for ‘Make In India’ with the launch of ‘Host In India,’ an initiative for Indian businesses. Indian brands that are looking to establish their online presence can enhance their overall marketability through deploying Indian web hosting services powered by geo-based hosting from GPX- India’s leading tier IV datacentre for faster website loading time and 99.99 percent uptime guarantee. Through this initiative, HostGator India aims to drive adoption of local hosting solutions amongst web designers, developers, bloggers, startups, enterprise businesses, application hosts and ecommerce sites...

Firewall solution providers, Cisco and Fortinet have issued security advisories confirming that vulnerabilities exposed by the mysterious Shadow Brokers do exist and affect their products. Both companies have issued fixes addressing the exploits that were recently made public. According to the report published in ZD Net, a group calling itself the Shadow Brokers, claims to have stolen a set of hacking tools from a group dubbed the Equation Group, which researchers believe is an elite unit of the US intelligence agency. The Shadow Brokers described the tools as “cyber weapons” used...

Chinese E Commerce giant Alibaba is reportedly planning to acquire online marketplace ShopClues.com. The move is considered to be an attempt to overtake the established OLS players in the country such as Amazon and Flipkart. According to the TOIreport, Alibaba wants to merge the marketplace of Paytm, in which it has a stake, with the much bigger rival ShopClues. According to the report, the Gurgaon-based ShopClues numbers GIC of Singapore, Tiger Global, Nexus Venture Partners and Helion among its investors and has raised about $250 million till date. ShopClues is positioned...