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Several Indian fintechs continue to be impacted by the Reserve Bank of India’s order earlier this week asking State Bank of Mauritius (SBM) India to stop all transactions under the liberalised remittance scheme (LRS) until further orders.Big names in the fintech space bearing direct impact of the RBI move include neobanking fintechs Niyo and Zolve, which was started by former TaxiForSure cofounder Raghunandan G, US-stock investment platforms such as IndMoney and Vested Finance, multiple industry leaders, people working…

Area 120, the Google in-house incubator responsible for products such as Checks, Tables, Stack and ThreadBite, has been significantly affected by broader layoffs at Google parent company Alphabet. A spokesperson tells TechCrunch via email that the majority of the Area 120 team has been “winded down,” and that only three projects from the division will graduate later this year into core Google product areas. The spokesperson wouldn’t say which specific projects were being shuttered or graduating.…

Image: AmazonAmid a sea of mass layoffs in the tech industry, Amazon’s previously announced intent to reduce its workforce with nearly 20,000 job cuts began rolling out this week—and reports are that Comixology, the digital comics storefront Amazon purchased in 2014, is being hit hard.News of major cuts at Comixology emerged on social media yesterday afternoon, as program manager Scott McGovern confirmed his exit among “numerous” others. Anonymous staff speaking to Polygon alledged that Comixology employees—who are part…

Graphical abstract. Credit: Quaternary Science Reviews (2022). DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2022.107855 Pronounced climate fluctuations and changed conditions for agriculture coincided with the rise and fall of the Persian Empires, according to an international study led by researchers at Linköping University. The researchers have studied historical variations in precipitation and vegetation in southeastern Iran over the last…

In an effort to comply with a somewhat controversial European Union law, Apple will reportedly allow third-party app stores on the iPhone and iPad beginning in 2024. This is something of a jarring revelation, given that Apple has historically managed the App Store with an iron fist and a discerning eye. Apple, in stark contrast to Google, manually approves every app in the App Store. What’s more, Apple in the past has shown no qualms about going to court to prevent third-party app stores from infiltrating its…

As the year comes to an end, network providers are putting a stop to their 3G satellites. Here's how the closure may affect the tech that you rely on every day. As the year comes to an end, network providers are putting a stop to their 3G satellites. Here's how the closure may affect the tech that you rely on every day. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary…

Servers of Google’s widely used email product Gmail were down globally with several million users impacted in a major outage. Several users across the globe and in India reported interruptions, being unable to access the Gmail app and flagging mails that were left undelivered.  Outage monitoring website downdetector.com reported a massive spike in reports of problems with Gmail. In India, issues were reported from across cities including Delhi, Kolkata, Ahmedabad, Hyderabad, Mumbai.  Several…

Samuel Munoz, Assistant Professor in the Department of Marine & Environmental Sciences with a cross-appointment in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering. Credit: Alyssa Stone/Northeastern University The eruption of Mauna Loa for the first time in 40 years on the Big Island of Hawaii follows a summer and fall that saw record-high temperatures around the world. …

When Vijay Chattha was building a startup, his competitor was what some would call a media darling. The competition had a good story, which created investor interest. In turn, that interest helped land key customers. And so the cycle repeated. Chattha eventually sold that company in a lukewarm exit and took with him an important lesson: Earned media has the power to be a kingmaker. Chattha is now the founder and CEO of VSC, a public relations firm that has helped launch over 600 companies. The firm works with…

“TimesPro has Impacted the Lives of Over 2 Million Learners in H.Ed.Tech Space” Says Anish Srikrishna by Market Trends December 2, 2022 Ed-tech platforms are a boon in times of uncertainty like the way they proved to be during the Pandemic. It has led to mushrooming of online education portals, so much so that it has become a maze for post-pandemic online learning seekers. Particularly, after the pandemic, there is an increasing trend of people wanting to switch jobs by updating their knowledge joining an online…