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The directive shows just how much attention Facebook is paying to the emerging markets, crucial as they are for the social networking giant’s further expansion.
A large number of Facebook employees are shunning their iPhones and switching to Android devices. And they are doing it – not necessarily willingly – under strict instructions from chief product officer Chris Cox!
“I am mandating a switch of a whole bunch of my team over to Android, just because people, when left

Uber is withdrawing its services from 3 German cities. citing tough regulations.
Taxi-hailing service Uber Technologies is making a retreat in Germany to the cities of Berlin and Munich as it grapples with a ban from using unlicensed cab drivers.
Uber will for now suspend services in Hamburg, Frankfurt and Duesseldorf, it said in a statement on Friday, citing a difficult regulatory environment.
A German court in March banned Uber from running services using unlicensed cab drivers and set stiff

Indians are now looking to apps in their phones to fulfil all kinds of transactions.
India is finally realising the potential of mobile wallets. From paying bills to recharging your pre-paid mobile number, Indians are now looking to apps in their phones to  fulfil the transaction.
Apps like PayTM, MobiKwik and Freecharge are seeing a surge in downloads thanks to their ability to let customers pay for anything from their DTH bills to taxi tabs and online shopping bills. It helps that there

Facebook is finally killing off this ‘Others folder’, where strangers thought it was okay to send messages to anyone
“Hi, will you be frands with me.” If you’re a woman on Facebook, it’s likely you’ve gotten random messages like this or far worse from strangers in your ‘Others’ folder on Messenger.  But there’s good news in store. Facebook is finally killing off this ‘Others folder,’ where messages from strangers

This image of asteroid 2015 TB145, a dead comet, was generated using radar data collected by the National Science Foundation’s 1,000-foot (305-meter) Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. The radar image was taken on Oct. 30, 2015, and the image resolution is 25 feet (7.5 meters) per pixel. Image credit: NAIC-Arecibo/NSF
A large asteroid that scientists only discovered this month will make a relatively close approach to Earth on Saturday, astronomers say, providing one of the best opportuni

Lenovo has launched its new YOGA 700 with Windows 10.
Lenovo has launched two new convertible laptops as part of its Yoga 700 series, one with an 11-inch screen and the second with a 14-inch screen. While the 11-inch YOGA 700 starts at $649, 14-inch YOGA 700 starts at $799. Both computers run Windows 10.
The screen for the Yoga 700 is a responsive 10-point multitouch one with Full HD (1920 x 1080) IPS display resolution. The laptops come with Dolby DS1.0 Home Theater certified stereo speak

Bharti Airtel has commercially launched 4G service in 296 cities with 35,000 base-stations and 4G tariffs at 3G prices.
India is expected to have 9 crore 4G subscribers and 18 crore 4G smartphones by 2018 and Bharti Airtel, Vodafone and Idea Cellular will gain from this growth if Reliance Jio Infocomm delays the launch of its 4G services, says a report by Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BofA ML).
“We expect 4G smartphone base to jump from 5 million in FY 2015 to 180 million (18 crore) by F

Google has told Symantec to comply with the transparency guidelines on issuing web security certificates to websites.
After Symantec’s report that it had issued fake security certificates to websites without their knowledge including Google, the search giant has now issued a warning to the security firm saying that the former needs to come clean on the whole fiasco.
In a blogpost published by the Google Security team, the company says that after June 1, 2016, any certificate issued by Sym

The contract includes an agreement to roll out a fourth generation wireless network as well as provide infrastructure.
Finnish telecoms group Nokia on Friday announced it had inked a slew of deals worth a billion dollars to sell equipment and services to China Mobile.
The Finnish firm’s contract with the world’s largest mobile operator includes an agreement to roll out a fourth generation wireless network as well as provide infrastructure, maintenance, network planning and software

Flipkart, which competes with Snapdeal and Amazon besides other smaller players, on Friday opened its largest warehouse in Telangana.
Online marketplace Flipkart will invest a “couple of billion dollars” in the next few years on beefing up its logistics network as part of efforts to strengthen its position in the booming e-commerce industry.
Flipkart, which competes with Snapdeal and Amazon besides other smaller players, on Friday opened its largest warehouse in Telangana. It plans

The Apple iPhone 6s Plus (128GB) is clearly the most expensive smartphone in the Indian market if you take Vertu and other such luxury brands out of the picture. You don’t really need to spend Rs 92,000 on a smartphone now, as even Rs 20,000 phones give good features and user experience. But that does not mean no one will buy an expensive phone these days. There is a reasonably large market for expensive phones, driven by people who want a top-end device for its performance, dependability

Apple, meanwhile, continued to lead the tablet market even as iPad shipments slipped 20 per cent
The tablet market is pretty much packing up. Soon after the IDC report that showed a 12.6 per cent year over year decline a Canalys report puts the figure at 20 per cent. In fact, Canalys says the worldwide PC market experienced its fourth consecutive quarter of negative growth, with shipments declining 14% to 114.2 million units. Canalys counts tablets in the PC segment.“The market struggled