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Microblogging platform Twitter was down for thousands of users on Thursday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com. Over 10,000 users reported issues with accessing the social media website in the United States as of 7:40 pm ET, according to a Reuters report. However, less than an hour later, the number of reported issues was down to just over 3,700. Some users also complained that their Twitter notifications were not working, while others got an error and the tweets were not showing up in their feed.…

Over the past few weeks the ETtech team has been chronicling all the big news events that shaped 2022. We’ve tried to make sense of all the important developments that have impacted companies, sectors and people working in the tech and startup sector. Today we are replugging our exclusive State of Startups survey, the most important CXO movements, widespread layoffs, and analysis on what 2023 holds for sectors like fintech and edtech. First up, is today’s story on the funding landscape for Indian startups.Programming…

Major U.S.-listed Chinese companies, including Pinduoduo Inc and Full Truck Alliance Co, have put discussions about a potential Hong Kong listing on hold, The Information reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter. The report comes after a U.S. accounting watchdog said it had full access to inspect and investigate firms in China for the first time ever, removing the risk that around 200 Chinese companies could be kicked off U.S. stock exchanges amid rocky relations between the world's largest economies.…

Google workers in Switzerland sent a letter this month to the company's vice president of human resources, outlining their worries that a new employee evaluation system could be used to cull the workforce. "The number and spread of reports that reached us indicates that at least some managers were aggressively pressured to apply a quota" on a process that could lead to employees getting negative ratings and potentially losing their jobs, five workers and employee representatives wrote in the letter, which was obtained by…

Twitter on Thursday suffered a major outage as signing in to its web version was difficult for a lot of users who were greeted with an error message when they tried signing in. In the early hours of Thursday, when users attempted to access the microblogging service, they were met with an error notice. Twitter on Thursday suffered a major outage as signing in to its web version was difficult for a lot of users who were greeted with an error message when they tried signing in. In the early hours of Thursday, when users…

The Competition Commission is understood to have issued demand notices to Google for its failure to pay within the stipulated time the penalties imposed on the internet major for anti-competitive practices, according to sources. Google has filed appeals before the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) against the Competition Commission of India's (CCI) two orders in October. The appeals are yet to be heard by the tribunal. The Competition Commission is understood to have issued demand notices to Google for…

The standard typeface that Apple uses across iOS and iPadOS devices is SF Pro, and while it is clean and readable, you may get sick of it after staring at your iPhone all day. Unfortunately, Apple doesn’t allow us to change the system font on the iPhone, but if you’re intent on doing so anyway, there’s an exploit in iOS 16 that makes it possible. Earlier this week, developer Zhuowei Zhang released a proof-of-concept app on GitHub that lets users overwrite fonts on iOS. As Zhang explains, the app only works on…

Honasa Consumer Ltd, the parent company of personal care brand Mamaearth, has filed its draft red herring prospectus with the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) for an initial public offering (IPO). Through the offer, there will be a fresh issuance of shares worth Rs 400 crore, in addition to an offer-for-sale (OFS) component for 46.82 million shares. If it goes through, Honasa Consumer will likely be among the first new-age direct-to-consumer companies to have an IPO in India, after audiotech brand Boat…

Twitter Inc suffered a major outage on Wednesday, leaving tens of thousands of users globally unable to access the popular social media platform or use its key features for several hours before services appeared to come back online. The incident is the social media site's first apparent widespread service disruption since billionaire Elon Musk took over Twitter as CEO in late October. Downdetector, a website that tracks outages through a range of sources including user reports, showed more than 10,000 affected users from…

India's 5G smartphone shipments will exceed that of 4G shipments by the end of next year, driven by the mass adoption of the high-speed network and the rise in sale of handsets in the lower-price bands, market research firm Counterpoint said on Thursday. Although India's overall smartphone shipments are estimated to see a yearly decline this year due to component supply issues and macroeconomic factors, 5G will continue to push smartphone demand in 2023 as well, Counterpoint added. 5G data speed in India is expected to be…