Kiev-born, Jan Koum, a Ukrainian-American internet inventor, computer programmer and WhatsApp co-founder revealed he got the WhatsApp’s idea purely by accident after missing calls at Gym, he conceived the idea of creating the messaging app after being annoyed. He wanted to create an app that could communicate to people whether he was free or not.…
Alphabet’s Google acquired Redux, in August 2017, a firm that uses vibrations to turn displays into speaker. Redux which raised $5 million in March 2017, a funding backed by Arie Capital. Redux creates products and bespoke systems that enable high-resolution haptic feedback and speaker less surround audio as it eliminates the need for small speakers…
Consumers Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week is a showcase for several new Chinese exhibitors and they increasingly winning with their own products. Shenzhen-based DJI, a leading global producer of Drones. The Value in Tech with Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon have a combined market value of $2.8tn compared to the Chinese internet…
Shantou the Southern China city born, Pony Ma, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Tencent, the world’s sixth-biggest tech company which is Facebook, Apple Pay, Spotify, gaming and reading rolled into one, which last year generated $23bn revenue and has world’s biggest chunk of data, in China despite government surveillance. Ma’s Tencent Holdings ranks among China’s largest…
India will launch 31 satellites, on 10th January 2018, which includes an earth observation spacecraft Cartosat from Sriharikota spaceport in Andhra Pradesh, South India. The rocket is schedule to be launched at 9:30am IST 4:00GMT. The 28 satellites from the US and the five other countries and one nano and micro satellite from India besides…
Sophia, a social humanoid robot developed by Hong Kong –based Hanson Robotics in October 2017, who had already became a Saudi Arabian and Indian citizen, made its first appearance in India at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT-B) on 30th December 2017. Draped in Indian traditional sari, Sophia had a 15-minute conversation with a…
There is a conspiracy, according to the users of old iPhones they are convinced that Apple was deliberately slowing down old iPhones to force customers to upgrade to new models. In Cupertino based Apple’s website, their latest blog the group acknowledged that aging batteries and a software update designed to prevent sudden, unexpected shutdowns had…
WhatsApp owned by Facebook, will stop working on several platforms from December 31, 2017, including BlackBerry OS, BlackBerry 10, Windows Phone 8.0 and older platforms according the spokesperson. “We will no longer actively develop for these platforms, and some features may stop functioning at any time”, as these platforms don’t offer the kind of capabilities…
Apple pounced on to buy Shazam, the UK–based music recognition app, in its biggest acquisition since their $3bn deal to buy Beats Electronics in 2014, according to Recode. However, the terms of the deal were not disclosed, but there is a valuation of $400m – less than half Shazam’s valuation after a private financing in…
Mobile phones were merely used for making calls on the go before Steve Jobs introduced us to “the One device” iPhone. How did the iPhone transform our world and turn Apple into the most valuable company ever? This is a first hand look at how the cutting-edge tech that makes the world work- touch screens,…