Good evening, The controversy over WhatsApp’s updated privacy policy in India is coming to a head. The government has once again told the firm to withdraw the new policy and has given it a week to respond or face legal action. Also in this letter: ⚡️ PhonePe in talks to buy Indus OS 📱…
The speculation linking Amazon to a major movie studio, a planned French digital media merger, and Rakuten’s global Open RAN ambitions top today’s news bill. Just as a number of major telcos realize that investing in entertainment content production maybe wasn’t the right thing to do with their money, after all, one of the…
Kings Infra Ventures Limited and NEC Corporation Japan achieved a remarkable landmark in Precision Aquaculture when the Proof of Concept (PoC) project using Recirculated Aquaculture System (RAS) based shrimp Aquaculture along with Artificial Intelligence and IOT was launched on 3rd May 2021. The POC is a joint initiative by NEC Corporation and Kings Infra…
SoftBank has decided it has a good chance of making more profit by persuading women to apply dragon’s blood onto their faces. Dragons blood is an ingredient for makeup which is produced from the sap of the croton lechleri plant, which grows in South America. In traditional medicine, it is said that this liquid…
Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.’s PlayStation 5 gaming console is enjoying a boom among Chinese consumers following its release in China in mid-May. In Shanghai, a new product exhibition of Sony Corp. is under way, and a large number of Chinese people packed the space and indulged in gaming experience on the next-generation console. People…
Manufacturers and tech players are itching to be untangled from a web of challenges fomenting a global chip shortage that have derailed their production, but those looking to be set free are in for a bit of a wait. In fact, some automakers fear they may have to live with the problem for years…
Japanese dating app operator Net Marketing Co. said Friday personal data of 1.71 million users, including names and face photos, was likely leaked due to unauthorized access to its server. The operator of the Omiai dating app said customer information provided to the company between January 2018 and last month might have been stolen,…
Toyota Motor Corp. said Wednesday it expects net profit to grow 2.4 percent to 2.3 trillion yen ($21 billion) in the current business year, building further on its stronger-than-expected recovery from the initial fallout from the coronavirus pandemic. The growth outlook for the year through next March follows an unexpected 10.3 percent rise in…
The fastest train the world had ever seen was launched in Japan in 1964. The first Shinkansen, or bullet train, ran between Tokyo and Osaka and had a top speed of 210km per hour. Isao Makibayashi, one of the train’s first drivers, spoke to Witness History about his excitement at working on the bullet…
Panasonic Corp. said Monday it expects net profit to rise 27.2 percent to 210 billion yen ($1.9 billion) in the current business year through next March, helped by growth in its automotive segment that supplies electric vehicle batteries to U.S. giant Tesla Inc. The expected recovery would follow a year in which the coronavirus…
