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AstraZeneca acknowledges potential link between vaccine and rare blood clots in UK court
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India: Global hotbed for phishing attacks, ranking 3rd
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Now weather forecasters shield India Inc from rainy days
According to Noida-headquartered Skymet Weather Services’ Founder and Managing Director Jatin Singh: “The business has gained traction in India as insurance, banking, agribusiness, commodity traders, retail and e-commerce, transportation and government institutions have become our clients over the years.
“We are India’s largest crop insurance settlement agency.”
In historic first, G20 weighs aging as global risk
Longer life-expectancy and sliding birth rates, particularly among wealthy nations, have resulted in a rapid expansion of the elderly population in places like Spain, Italy and South Korea, according to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development.
How Internet may be changing your brain
The research, published in the journal World Psychiatry, found the Internet can produce both acute and sustained alterations in specific areas of cognition, which may reflect changes in the brain
Draft law proposes 10-year jail term for dealing in cryptocurrency
A cryptocurrency is a digital or virtual currency that uses cryptography for security and is generally based on blockchain technology, a distributed ledger enforced by a disparate network of computers. Bitcoin is the most popular cryptocurrency in the world.
India may have 88 million 5G connections by 2025: GSMA
Global telecom industry body GSMA said that a recent survey of global mobile data pricing highlighted that India was the cheapest market among over 200 countries surveyed in the final quarter of 2018.
Google faces privacy complaints in France, Germany, 7 other EU countries
The ruling by the EU court, expected in a few months, will help clarify to what extent social media companies such as Facebook must police posts by billions of users worldwide. The Luxembourg-based court follows the advice of its advocates general in a majority of cases.
Not Amazon, Instagram is likely to dominate the future of online retail
Retailers need to be where their customers are, and increasingly, that’s Instagram, which has 1 billion monthly users. Its fashion following also makes it a place to show off the hottest styles and in-season merchandise. That’s better for margins than selling on a platform where price is the main driver — another knock to Amazon.
ET Cards and Payment Summit to deliberate on “Indian payments sector transformation”
The Economic Times Cards & Payments Summit, to be held on June 6 at Sahara Star ,will unfurl a world of innovation that will transform how everybody transacts.
Artificial Intelligence will double innovations, productivity in India by 2021: Microsoft study
As much as twenty four per cent of respondents chose higher competitiveness as number one driver for implementing AI initiatives.Accelerated innovation (21 per cent), better customer engagement (15 per cent), higher margins (14 per cent) as well as more productive employees (nine per cent) were some of the other drivers.
US engages World’s Regulators on Grounded Boeing 737
Chicago-based Boeing has developed a software fix that won’t allow MCAS to push down a plane’s nose more than once and it will rely on data from two sensors instead of one in an attempt to lower the chances that a single malfunction can trigger it.