Here are today’s Top 5 News & Events from Around the World. Take a look! #5 No More “Dutch Sandwich” For Google According to a report by Reuters, Google will stop using Irish tax heaven routes popularly termed as “Dutch Sandwich” from this year onwards. The lenient tax laws in Ireland for corporates allowed many global tech giants to flout tax payments back in the US. Google will stop using these loopholes from this year onwards. According to reports, Google was able to route $23 billion into Bermuda through Irland in 2017 alone. Trump has already reduced the tax rates…
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Here are today’s Top 5 News & Events from Around the World. Take a look! #5 US Navy Bans TikTok For Security Reasons TikTok, the video-sharing app will no longer work on the mobiles of the US Navy officials. The US Navy has banned the use of this popular app citing security concerns. TikTok has faced several lawsuits in the recent past and is currently being reviewed by the US Committee on Foreign Investment. Because of the current circumstances, the app got banned for official use. Now, will this ban spread across the US? Link. ___ #4 Facebook’s Entry Into…
Here are today’s Top 5 News & Events from Around the World. Take a look! #5 Twitch Sued For $2.8 B, By Russian Firm Twitch is being sued for $2.8 billion by a Russian firm over pirate broadcasts of English Premier League. Rambler group of Russia, which is the third biggest internet company in the country alleges that Twitch telecasted the league games 36000 times between August and November 2019. It is seeking a permanent ban of Twitch in Russia. Twitch’s lawyer has dismissed the charges. Russia has the third-largest user base of Twitch. The court in Moscow city will…
Here are today’s Top 5 News & Events from Around the World. Take a look! #5 A Decentralized Twitter? A Good Or Bad Idea? Jack Dorsey has announced that his company is researching decentralized social media. He said Twitter is trying to make a new decentralized social media protocol. A new team ‘Bluesky’ is working towards this goal. A decentralized social media could be a boon or a bane. It will give more control in the hands of the users to create their own small pockets of users through networking independent of the parent site. It has been difficult to…
Here are today’s Top 5 News & Events from Around the World. Take a look! #5 Emails Inside Emails In Gmail, Send Them As Attachments From now on you can attach other emails as attachments inside Gmail. You can find the feature as “Forward email as an attachment.” Gmail also allows you to attach multiple emails as attachments. It also supports drag and drop. Once you attach emails inside your emails, it will show as .eml files. The full release of the feature will take some time and you might need to wait till Jan 6th 2020. You also don’t…
Here are today’s Top 5 News & Events from Around the World. Take a look! #5 Netflix’s $420 Million India Investment, Will It Increase Subscriber Base? Netflix is going to produce more India specific content for its audience. For the world’s largest streaming service provider, India is a big market. “You’ll start to see a lot of stuff hit the screen, big investment,” Chief Executive Officer Reed Hastings said in Delhi. The CEO also said that they are trying to become more Indian with their investment. Netflix is competing hard with other streaming service providers in the Indian market where more…
Here are today’s Top 5 News & Events from Around the World. Take a look! #5 Uber’s Safety Report Is Unbelievable, Over 6000 Sexual Assualt Cases! Uber has released its long-awaited safety report for the period 2017 – 2018. And the results are shocking. There are over 6000 sexual assault cases cited in the report. These incidents include various kinds of sexual assaults. Next time be more careful with your Uber ride. Here’s the link to the full report. Link. ___ #4 Emotion-Sensing Robot Will Now Help Astronauts Beat Space Loneliness, Can It? NASA has prepared a robot that is…
Here are today’s Top 5 News & Events from Around the World. Take a look! #5 Huawei Challenges FCC, Files Legal Petition Against Latest Restrictions Huawei has decided to challenge the latest restriction from FCC that bans the use of federal funds for the purchase of equipment from it. It has challenged this FCC decision in a court filing in New Orleans. This is the third such lawsuit from Huawei against the US government in the United States. Link. ___ #4 Craigslist On iOS and Android, Finally After 11 Years If you don’t know it yet, Craigslist is as old…
Here are today’s Top 5 News & Events from Around the World. Take a look! #5 Sundar Takes Reins From Larry, Now Also Controls Google Parent Alphabet Larry Page the CEO of Google’s parent firm Alphabet has stepped down from his post and has handed over the reins to Google CEO Sundar Pichai. Sergey Brin and Larry Page no longer control any part of Alphabet in an executive position. Both announced their departure in a company blog post. The reason provided by them is that the company has matured to a level where it doesn’t need two operating CEOs. But…
Here are today’s Top 5 News & Events from Around the World. Take a look! #5 Quantum Computing From AWS, But Is It Ready? Amazon has started providing nascent quantum computing services over the internet. Google might have already announced its supremacy over the quantum tech but Amazon is preparing its service called Braket as a middleman. “Amazon Braket is a fully managed AWS service, with security & encryption baked in at each level,” according to the company blog post. Apart from this Amazon also said that it’s going to launch a physical lab for quantum computing as well, near California…
Here are today’s Top 5 News & Events from Around the World. Take a look! #5 Huawei Makes Smartphones Without US Chips Huawei has started to produce smartphones without US mobile chips, which forms the backbone of any mobile maker. From completely depending on the US tech for making smartphones to now a time when they are no longer the must-haves, Huawei has taken a huge step forward. Although the US administration has started giving licenses to US firms to start their business with the Chinese giant, it seems too late now. According to an analysis by UBS, the latest…
Here are today’s Top 5 News & Events from Around the World. Take a look! #5 Cow With VR Will Give More Milk? Virtual Fields Making A Difference In Moscow, Russia cows are experiencing the benefits of virtual reality. The farmers are using modified VR headsets for cows in an experiment to see whether this would increase milk production or not. And the good news is that it does make a difference, at least on an initial level. The farmers thought that a virtual world of green, everlasting pasture would make the cows feel happy in turn resulting in better…