Google fined  £2.13bn (€2.4bn) by Brussels, as search dominance is abused

  Brussels has hit Google with a £2.13bn (€2.4bn)  antitrust fine fro abusing its dominance in search. The European Commission ended its seventh-year competition investigation concluding that the company had abused its near-monopoly in online search to “give illegal advantage” to its own shopping service. Margrethe Vestager, the EU’s competition commissioner, said Google  “denied other…

Cartosat launched by India

India has successfully put into orbit its own earth observation satellite Cartosat weighing 712kg, nano satellite NIUSAT and 29 foreign satellites weighing 243 kg from Austria, Belgium, UK, Chile, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovakia and the US. The entire mission was completed in 23 minutes. According to ISRO, the images…

Superwoman super YouTube blogger

Canadian YouTube Vlogger, Comedian Writer and actress, Lilly Singh 28, 75th most popular star and ranked 20th YouTube star, from Scarborough, Toronto of Indian heritage, nicknamed as “Superwoman” when speaking to her social media following of over 12 million people, appeared on Forbes “highest paid YouTube Star of 2015” list.  She earned an estimated $2.5m…

Flipkart gets $1.4bn funding to face upto Amazon

Global technology groups  Tencent, eBay and Microsoft have injected $14bn into Indian e-commerce group Flipkart to face a battle with Amazon. The fundraising comes ahead of proposed deal for Flipkart to take over its biggest domestic rival Snapdeal, a plan backed by Japan’s Softbank, Snapdeal’s biggest investor. Forrester Research, which predicted that Indian e-commerce sales…

Saturn closet to Earth

Jupiter is coming to its closet point to Earth today, and the point in its orbite where its directly opposite the Sun in our sky, just 416 million miles (670 million kilometres) away and as it is the furthest, it can be upwards of 620 million miles (1 billion kilometres) away. NASA’s Hubble telescope was…

WhatsApp to launch digital payments in India

WhatsApp is entering India’s booming digital payments industry, after the demonetization in India and setting up a clash between the Facebook-owned mobile messaging app and Pay TM, the payment startup by Alibaba. WhatsApp’s website under the heading ” Digital transactions lead, India” announces the forthcoming digital payment service, collaborating with the banks and developing global support.…

Detection of Atmosphere around planet GJ1132b

Scientists say they have discovered an atmosphere 39 light years away, around an Earth-like planet GJ 1132b, 1.4 times the size of our planet for the first time. In their hunt for life beyond our solar system, the study published in the Astronomical Journal suggest that the super-Earth is surrounded by a thick layer of…

Black Swan moment for Imagination

Shares in Imagination Technology, a British Tech firm, plunged by 62 per cent, 103p, and its market capitalisation fell from £745m to £290m, after their largest customer Apple said it will no longer use its products. This is what we call a black swan movement for the company and investors in Imagination as there were…

Google’s UK tax bill

Google was charged £36.4m in UK corporation tax last year. The Search engine giant recorded sales of £1.03bn and a pre-tax profit of £149, in the UK for the 12 months to the end of June 2016 according to its latest accounts. Google also revealed that they have hired an extra 600 workers to take…

Apple launches Clips

Apple has launched Clips, a new free app for adding filters and special effects to photos and videos in iPhones and iPads and could become a major player in the emerging augmented reality (AR). Clips is a simple editing tool like Snapchat’s selfie lenses and Instagram’s Prisma, which can manipulate photos and videos incorporating music from…