The Taliban’s content will remain banned on Facebook, the company confirmed to Sky News on Tuesday, as the group is considered a dangerous terrorist organization under the site’s policies. The Taliban seized power over Afghanistan nearly 20 years after the U.S. war with the country ended. However, the organization is listed under a Specially Designated […]
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If you are someone who enjoys “unlimited” data plans for your home internet, then you may be familiar with the phenomena of bandwidth throttling. Yes, it has a name, and that’s because it is deliberate and perfectly legal. You may not have known that, but what you also might not have known is that it […]
Indian telecom operator Vodafone Idea (Vi) 2G subscribers would be the most affected if the company’s financial state remains unsolved, a source close to the matter told ET Telecom. In this case, Vi’s local rivals Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel will have to facilitate alternative options for Vi’s 2G customers. Experts highlighted that these solutions include providing low-end 4G smartphones or 4G feature phones to Vodafone Idea’s low-end 2G customers. […]
Softbank dropped $5 billion worth of publicly listed shares through its SB NorthStar trading unit of four tech giants during its first quarter, the Japanese conglomerate revealed in a financial report released on Tuesday. Back in 2020, the Tokyo-based multinational company vastly invested in social networking platform Facebook, Google’s parent company Alphabet, popular streaming service […]
Indian telecom operator Vodafone Idea (Vi), a subsidiary of Aditya Birla Group (ABG), is not looking to file for voluntary bankruptcy despite its financial struggles, ABG senior executives told ET Telecom. Vi’s financial criticality was revealed on June 7 when Kumar Mangalam Birla, chairman of the telco, wrote to the government offering to hand over the group’s stake in Vi to any public sector or local financial entity who could save the company. In his letter, Birla asserted that without immediate government support, […]
Uber shares tumbled on Wednesday with more than 4.5 percent in extended trading, following a report stating that SoftBank is selling around $2 billion worth of shares, in a definitive attempt to recover from lost bets on Didi and other investments. Japanese telecommunications and technology multinational conglomerate Softbank is selling a whopping 44 million shares […]
Tencent, the Chinese tech-company labeled as the biggest around the globe, has officially launched facial recognition technology that will be utilized to scan many Chinese kids’ faces every single night. The system will operate for the purpose of catching minors breaking the gaming curfew set by the Chinese government. This may seem like one intense episode of […]
The pandemic has placed a spotlight on all things seamless; from restaurant menus, hotel check-ins, and even trickling down to FinTech and digital banking services. This focus has accelerated coming of a digital economy that looks to harness the technological advancements that the world has witnessed since the start of the COVID-19 health crisis, which […]
The UAE’s Central Bank announced on Monday plans to rollout a new digital currency in accordance with its monetary 2023-2026 strategy, according to the state-run WAM news agency. However, while the report surfaced for a short period of time, the state-run news agency had pulled it from its platform for unknown reasons. In preparation for the digital […]
Facing extreme pressure from Myanmar’s Junta, Norwegian operator Telenor has sold it’s operations within the country to Lebanese investment firm M1 Group for $105 million, the company said in a statement on Thursday. “Telenor Group has entered into an agreement to sell 100 percent of its mobile operations in Myanmar to M1 Group for a total consideration of $105 million, of which $55 […]