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Three Indian mathematicians gave the world Algebra

How three Indian mathematicians gave the world Algebra One thousand five hundred years ago three Indian mathematicians developed Algebra to give meaning to the meaningless. Bhaskara, originated the radical signs, Brahmagupta created the symbols and Aryabhata, worked out the first equations. As original thinkers, they expanded man’s horizon in his unending search for knowledge.…

Google’s essential .app domain

Are you an app developer and the incredible importance of mobile apps in all areas of our life, even to communicate and measure our running or workout. With the new top-level domain app developers, cam professionally promote their app via an associated website. With a website featuring a .app domain, you create a central point…

Microsoft once saved Apple from Bankruptcy by investing $150m

Microsoft founded on April 1975, once invested $150 million to save Apple from Bankruptcy in 1997, when Microsoft’s market capitalisation was $146.68 billion. A deal was struck after Microsoft promised to support Microsoft Office for the Mac in return Apple agreed to make Internet Explorer its default web browser.

Samsung’s operating profit shoots up

Samsung Electronics has projected record first quarter operating profit, as strong demand for smartphones and memory chips which offset slowing down on the display panels and its premium Organic light emtting diode (OLED) . The groups operating profit for the first three months of 2018 at Won 15.6tn (£10.44bn) ( US$14.4bn) up 58 per cent…

Spotify defies market trend

Spotify, a music, podcast and video streaming freemium services with basic features free with advertisements or limitations, launched on 7th October 2008, which provides DRM-protected content from record labels and media companies. Play songs, sync music, discover music and free albums with Spotify your go-to music downloader, listed its existing shares directly on the NYSE…

Google’s Tez app rolled out for mobile payments

Google is preparing to expand Tez , the mobile payments platform that it successfully launched in India in September 2017. Tez, the mobile payment app giving a unified payments interface developed by the National Payments Corporation of India launched on September 19, 2017 for Android and iOS and Microsoft Windows. It is popular because you…

Mercury-like planet K2-229b about the size of Earth orbits 100 times closer to its star, than Earth does the Sun

K2-229b, Mercury-like exo-planet discovered

K2-229b, Mercury-like exo-planet discovered An International team of astronomers has detected a metallic exo-planet with a density similar to Mercury. Earth, Venus and Mars and some extra solar terrestrial planets have a mass and radius that is consistent with a mass fraction of about 30 per cent metallic core and 70 per cent…

Facebook loses Tesla and SpaceX

Now Elon Musk, the billionaire boss of Tesla and SpaceX, has deleted his companies’ Facebook pages with over 5 million followers, in protest at the data leak scandal during a Tweetstorm. Musk was answering a flurry of tweets when he responded to Brian Acton, co-founder of Facebook-owned WhatsApp that contained the hashtag#deletefacebook. Despite the anti-facebook…

Academic from Cambridge university and Facebook data mining

The Cambridge University sought the help of external arbitration to intervene in a dispute between Aleksandr Kogan, the academic and colleagues concerned by how he was planning to use data in work with Cambridge Analytics. Over the last years members of the Cambridge Psychometrics Centre, worked on tools that can analyse anonymised Facebook data for…

$50bn wiped out of Facebook shares

Facebook shares plummeted, their worst fall in more than five years yesterday, dropping 7 per cent and wiping out $50 billion, EU enforcement agencies joined UK and US counterparts sought a warrant for Cambridge Analytica, who mined the data of 50m users to create profiles to target them in the elections, as footage emerges appearing…