The best Hindi-language movies on Amazon Prime Video are a mix of contemporary and nostalgic fare, and hence much less dependent on Bollywood’s biggest studios of today than Netflix. Sure, the likes of Yash Raj, Dharma, Excel, Eros STX, Viacom18, and Reliance Entertainment are involved, but a chunk of the collection is thanks to legacy
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Amazon and Flipkart will run their first big festive season sales this week. Amazon Great Indian Festival 2020 sale will begin at midnight on October 16 for Prime subscribers, and from October 17 for everyone else. Flipkart’s Big Billion Days 2020 sale will kick off at 12pm (noon) on October 15 for Plus members, and
International Business Machines is splitting itself into two public companies, capping a years-long effort by the world’s first big computing firm to diversify away from its legacy businesses to focus on high-margin cloud computing. IBM will list its IT infrastructure services unit, which provides technical support for 4,600 clients in 115 countries and has a backlog
Japan has no plans now to issue central bank digital currencies but must deepen research on the possibility, the government’s top spokesman said on Friday. Major central banks across the world are studying the idea of issuing digital currencies amid the popularity of Bitcoin and other crypto-currencies. “At present, we don’t have any specific plans
Zoom has started offering the plan prices in rupees for the customers in India. With the new move, Zoom users in the country will be able to buy their preferred paid plans and add-ons for the video conferencing app in rupees. Zoom earlier supported localised pricing in regions including Australia, Canada, Europe, Japan, the UK,
Software giant Microsoft will let employees work from home permanently if they choose to, US media reported on Friday, becoming the latest employer to expand work-from-home provisions prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic. US tech news website The Verge said most Microsoft employees are still at home as the health crisis drags on, and the company
In The Boys comics, first published in 2006, the Seven — the corporatised group of superpowered individuals — were created as an analogue to DC’s Justice League. Queen Maeve (Dominique McElligott) is Wonder Woman, Black Noir (Nathan Mitchell) is Batman, A-Train (Jessie T. Usher) is The Flash, the excommunicated Deep (Chace Crawford) is Aquaman, the
Zoom has introduced an external authentication feature to make virtual classrooms more secure. Single Sign-On (SSO) will allow students to log in one time and get access to all the applications, data, and services they require. Students can be properly identified within the meeting using the name from the identity provider (IDP) and only authenticated
Sarita received some SMS messages on her phone that ended up resulting in her a loss of nearly Rs. 4,00,000. The text messages warned her that the KYC verification of her Paytm account was about to expire, and the 66-year-old, retired gynaecologist dialled the number in the message. Then, she spoke to what she thought
The United States is considering restrictions on China’s Ant Group as well as Tencent over concerns their digital payment platforms threaten national security, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday. Such a move would mark a new deterioration in relations between the world’s two largest economies, which have been stained by disputes over trade, Hong Kong’s autonomy,
Amazon India is set to host its Great Indian Festival 2020 as a month-long festive sale this year. The sale will begin from October 17 to offer a list of deals and offers ahead of the festival of Diwali. Flipkart is also hosting its annual Big Billion Days sale at around the same time, but
Google is announcing a dedicated Web Story carousel within its Discover feed, which is launching in the US, Brazil, and India to start with, and coming to more countries in the future. News publishers will be able to create their own stories using the free feature from Google, and will be able to monetise these posts
John McAfee, an antivirus software creator indicted for fraud in the United States, was in jail on Tuesday pending extradition procedures after being arrested in Barcelona airport at the weekend, sources said. The McAfee software founder was detained on Saturday when about to board a flight to Istanbul with a British passport, a Spanish police
Disney+ Hotstar has announced a list of 25 titles that will be released on its platform in October 2020. The biggest of the lot is naturally Baby Yoda. I mean, The Mandalorian, with the Star Wars series returning for season 2 towards the end of the month on October 30. It’s accompanied by the return
Alphabet’s Google plans to pay $1 billion (roughly Rs. 7,315 crores) to publishers globally for their content over the next three years, its CEO said on Thursday, a move that could help it win over a powerful group amid heightened regulatory scrutiny worldwide. News publishers have long fought the world’s most popular Internet search engine
Oil-to-telecoms conglomerate Reliance Industries said on Saturday Singapore sovereign wealth fund GIC and global private equity firm TPG Capital invested a combined Rs. 7,350 crore in its retail unit. Reliance, controlled by Asia’s richest man Mukesh Ambani, has secured more than $2 billion (roughly Rs. 14,600 crores) in investments from global investors, including KKR, Abu Dhabi state