Technology

As people geared up to celebrate New Year's Eve, food delivery platforms Zomato and Swiggy said they had recorded a massive surge in orders on December 31. Zomato chief executive Deepinder Goyal urged customers to order in early to avoid the year-end rush and cautioned against a potential crash in its servers. “We have touched last year's OPM already! Folks, please order now to avoid last minute rush, and potential server FUs,” he tweeted. In a separate tweet about the order volumes on New Year's Eve, he said, “45% up…

Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter - the world’s largest microblogging platform - was not your standard corporate acquisition, to say the least. Filled with twists and turns, the story was in the headlines for most of the year. ETtech looks back at how the saga unfolded. The beginning: On April 5, Musk revealed he had become the largest single shareholder in Twitter - a move he started putting into effect three months ago in January - with a 9.2% shareholding (valued at nearly $3 billion at the time). The next day,…

If you have hundreds or thousands of unread messages in your inbox, you might be a digital hoarder.Americans lead messy digital lives. About half of U.S. adults delete email regularly and we only open a bit more than half of the messages we receive, according to a report on cyber-hoarding from HighSpeedInternet.com, which offers comparison shopping for internet service. Email is only part of the digital clutter taking up space on our devices and in our heads. The mess accumulates as families grow and amass medical…

It has been a tumultuous year for the crypto world, which saw huge erosion in value, the Ethereum Merge, scrutiny from regulators, the crash of one of the world’s biggest exchanges, and more. Like stocks, the value of several cryptocurrencies rose quickly during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2021. But the excitement waned this year, causing crypto prices to return to Earth. A series of collapses, culminating in the failure of FTX in November, did little to calm jittery investors. The market value of Bitcoin, the most popular…

Happy New Year 2023 stickers on WhatsApp: Know how to download, send New Year wishes to loved onesAfter the Covid-19 pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine war being triggered in 2022, many of us can’t wait to ring in the New Year 2023 with positive vibes and a fresh start. Everyone is out celebrating the New Year with friends and family, starting the new year with the people that they love. As the entire country is gearing up to ring in the New Year 2023, many find themselves scrambling for New Year wishes and…

FP StaffDec 31, 2022 19:59:18 ISTThe rate at which tech as a whole has been growing annually has been phenomenal. 2022, however, was in a league of its own. There have been some magnificent pieces of tech that have gone mainstream this year. From Generative AI bots like ChatGPT and DALL-E to an all-screen laptop that can actually be folded or flattened out like a tablet, consumer tech saw a lot of things. We take a look at some of the best pieces of tech that the tech industry had to offer this year. Clearly, these…

New Delhi, Union Minister of State for Electronics and IT, Rajeev Chandrasekhar, on Saturday told Meta-owned WhatsApp to immediately fix an incorrect map of India in its New Year celebration live-streaming link. The minister reiterated that all social media platforms that do business in India must use correct maps. "Dear @WhatsApp Rqst that u pls fix the India map error asap. All platforms that do business in India and/or want to continue to do business in India, must use correct maps," said Chandrasekhar. Earlier this…

The government has invited applications from Indian citizens holding at least a bachelor’s degree to serve as whole-time members of the Grievance Appellate Committee (GAC) as proposed under the revised Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code, better known as the Information Technology Rules, 2021. Applicants must have worked at a position not lower than two levels below the director of a company or member of a corporate governing body of either a listed entity or a company which has paid up capital of Rs 100…

Sam Bankman-Fried is expected on Tuesday to enter a plea of not guilty to criminal charges that he cheated investors and looted billions of dollars at his now-bankrupt FTX cryptocurrency exchange, according to a source familiar with the matter. Bankman-Fried is accused of illegally using FTX customer deposits to support his Alameda Research hedge fund, buy real estate and make millions of dollars in political contributions. He is scheduled to appear at 2 p.m. EST (1900 GMT) on Tuesday before US District Judge Lewis Kaplan…

The global cybersecurity market grew 15.9 per cent year on year to $17.8 billion in the third quarter this year, despite deteriorating economic conditions, a report has shown. Palo Alto Networks was the number one vendor in the quarter, growing 24.9 per cent and increasing its market share to 8.4 per cent, up from 7.8 per cent in Q3 2021. Cisco was the second-largest cybersecurity vendor, with growth of 16.7 per cent and a flat market share of 6.9 per cent. Fortinet placed third, achieving growth of 29.9 per cent to…