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Amazon continues to be the most popular starting point for online shoppers with one exception – Gen Z, according to a new survey. Why we care. Nearly all consumers research purchases online and rely heavily on ratings and reviews. So it remains absolutely critical to be visible on any relevant platforms at moments when shoppers are researching and purchasing products. By the numbers. Here’s where respondents said they start searching when shopping online: Amazon: 50% Google: 31.5% Retail or brands…

GoogleGoogle is providing a potential lifeline to those who may be contemplating suicide. On Monday, the company said it will soon display messages that people searching about suicide could use to ask for help. Based on specific templates, the prewritten messages will contain different requests to speak or chat with a friend, family member, or other trusted contact.If you need help, visit: The International Association for Suicide Prevention The idea behind Google's initiative is that a person thinking of suicide…

We have all been through a situation where we have searched for something really private, silly or even embarrassing online that we would never want anyone else to find out. On a larger view, this is not only a question of keeping your searches accessible only to you, but also of privacy, data security and even freedom from cybercrimes. This is why there is a need to know about how to keep your privacy intact while searching online, whether it is on Google, Google Maps or YouTube. And if you are looking for the same,…

Initial investigations after recent searches by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) at Byju’s have so far found no Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA) violations by the edtech firm, according to sources.Sources indicated that searches on the premises of Byju’s in Bengaluru by ED and the material collected are yet to establish any FEMA violations.The investigations are still at an early stage and according to sources, Byju’s had cooperated and provided ED with all necessary documents.When contacted, a top ED official told…

Singer Katy Perry was spotted looking confused as she wandered around Westminster Abbey in London in search of her seat for King Charles III`s coronation Saturday. The videos went viral in no time adding much to the amusement of the Twitterati. "Me as a kid going aisle to aisle after getting lost in the grocery store," joked one royal watcher. "This is a new reaction vid if I`ve ever seen one," tweeted another. "the way she`s trying to look for her seat with that hat, it`s adorable and funny at the same time," wrote a…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeGo back to your roots, we’re always told, and you’ll find your heart’s true home. But in Davy Chou’s daring and mesmeric Return to Seoul, an adoptee’s search for her birth parents tears open wounds and unearths neither meaning nor resolution. Freddie (Park Ji-Min) is in her mid-twenties, a French woman adopted from South Korea at birth. She finds herself in Seoul after a trip to Tokyo…

India's anti-money laundering investigation agency conducted searches at offices of Byju's, the country's most valuable startup, as part of a probe and has seized documents. The Enforcement Directorate officials, mandated to investigate money laundering and forex violation cases, searched the Bengaluru-based startup's offices and seized documents and digital data, the agency said in a Twitter post. The probe is happening under Foreign Exchange Management Act, it said. The investigations come at a time when the company,…

The Directorate of Enforcement (ED) on Saturday said that it had conducted searches on premises linked to edtech startup Byju’s over alleged foreign exchange violations.In all, three premises - two official and one residential - linked to the founder Byju Raveendran, and his company ‘Think & Learn Private Limited’ were searched under the provisions of the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA).The company runs online education platform Byju’s, India’s most-valued startup at $22 billion, and counts several marquee…

The world’s largest crypto exchange is on the hunt for a user it says publicly posted the keys to its crypto kingdom. In court documents first filed April 7, Binance asked the court to grant a subpoena against GitHub, trying to find any information about a user whom the company said had leaked excerpts of the Binance source code online. Matthew Keys at The Desk first reported on the apparent code leak. According to an email chain provided in the court docs, the crypto exchange originally sent Microsoft-owned GitHub a…

Online searches for cryptocurrency `Dogecoin` on Google skyrocketed by a whopping 1,992 per cent worldwide after Elon Musk changed Twitter`s bird logo to Dogecoin`s shiba inu on April 3, a new report showed on Tuesday.The finding by Japanese online casino guide 6Takarakuji revealed that this is an increase of over 20 times the search interest compared to average levels over the last seven days.`Buy Doge` and `buy Dogecoin` searches also soared 1,044 and 253 per cent respectively, and Shiba Inu coin also saw a 132 per…