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Slack's User Growth Hurt By Competition, Shares Slump
Slack Technologies Inc posted slowing quarterly billings growth and added fewer paid customer to its workplace messaging platform, hurt by strong competition in the workfromhome market, sending its shares down 15% in afterhours trading.
Microsoft Windows 10 Update Now Breaks The Sleep Mode On Laptops, And We Are Not Surprised Anymore
Windows 10 machines are struggling with a new bug that impacts the sleep mode that is causing machines to power up without any user input. It turns out that there is a specific process that is causing this problem.
Samsung Galaxy M-Series to Contribute $3.5 Billion Gross Merchandise Value by End of 2020
Samsung is expected to launch the Galaxy M51 on September 10 with the industry-first 7,000mAh battery.
Reusable Chinese Spacecraft Lands Successfully - State Media
An experimental reusable spacecraft launched into orbit two days ago by China has successfully returned to a designated site on Sunday, marking a breakthrough that could lead to cheaper roundtrips to space, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.
Goldman Sachs Joins Syndicate For Ant IPO Of Up To $30 Billion - Sources
Goldman Sachs has joined the growing list of investment banks working on Chinese financial technology firm Ant Group's mammoth initial public offering of up to $30 billion, two people with direct knowledge of the matter said.
China's ByteDance Buys UIPay To Leverage E-payment Capabilities At Home
ByteDance, the owner of popular shortvideo app TikTok, said it has acquired a Chinese thirdparty payment service UIPay in a bid to leverage its domestic payment capability.
Facebook Election Plan Patches Some Holes, Creates Others
Facebook Inc's final policy changes in the leadup to U.S. elections in November are unlikely to stem a flood of disinformation around the vote, which could suppress turnout and sow confusion about results, election experts said on Friday.
Amazon Japan Submits Improvement Plan To Regulators - Asahi
Amazon Japan has submitted a plan to the country's fair trade regulator on how it will improve practices suspected of violating antitrust rules, the Asahi Shimbun reported on Friday.
Bolivia Says It Hired U.S. Lobbying Firm Linked By Facebook To Fake News
Bolivia's interim presidency said on Thursday it had hired a Washingtonbased lobbying firm that Facebook Inc accuses of launching fake news campaigns to skew democratic debate.
Apple To Delay Privacy Change Threatening Facebook, Mobile Ad Market
Apple Inc said on Thursday that it will delay until early next year changes to its privacy policy that could reduce ad sales by Facebook Inc and other companies targeting users on iPhones and iPads.
Facebook To Limit Last-minute Political Ads In Final U.S. Election Push
Facebook Inc said on Thursday it would stop accepting new political ads in the week before the U.S. Election Day on Nov. 3, in a series of moves the company billed as its final plan for reducing risks of misinformation and election interference.
Gamers Left Reeling As India Pulls Plug On Tencent's PUBG In China Spat
For tens of millions of Indian gamers, Tencent's PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG) videogame was a welcome distraction from the coronavirus pandemic.
PUBG Mobile Gamers Believe Call of Duty Mobile and Garena Free Fire Can Be Great Alternatives
PUBG Mobile in India is the second marquee app to be banned after TikTok, and like the latter, this ban too will impact thousands of people invested in the game.
India's Opposition Parties Quiz Facebook Over Political Bias
Opposition lawmakers from an Indian parliamentary panel accused Facebook on Wednesday of favouring the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) during a meeting to quiz the social media giant on its content regulation.
Paying Your Credit Card Bills Using CRED During IPL T20 Can Get You Some Cashback: This Is How It Works
Anyone who pays their bill payment on the CRED app during these overs in any IPL T20 match will get assured cashback and one user will win 100% cashback. CRED confirms to News18 that there is no cap on the cashback for bill payments and all payments are e...
Poco X3 With Snapdragon 732G SoC, 64MP Quad-Camera to Officially Launch on September 7
The new Poco X3 is going to be a successor for the Poco X2 that launched earlier this year as a rebranded version of the Redmi K30.