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• Veeam Appoints Alistair MacIntyre-Currie as Vice President of Field Marketing for Asia Pacific and Japan

  2 hours ago TECHNOLOGY The Economic Time 30

  MacIntyre-Currie will be responsible for leading Veeam’s marketing team across APJ.

• Xiaomi may discontinue Poco brand, says analysts

  6 hours ago TECHNOLOGY The Economic Time 28

  Manu Jain, Xiaomi’s India head and international vice president, was non-committal on Poco's future.

• China's ByteDance to store Indian data locally after MPs raise concerns on privacy, national security

  22 hours ago TECHNOLOGY The Economic Time 31

  Several Parliamentarians, including Congress' Shashi Tharoor, BJD's Pinaki Misra and TDP’s Jayadev Galla, have accused short-video app TikTok of...

• Is Fitbit next best wearable player after Apple in India?

  1 day ago TECHNOLOGY The Economic Time 31

  Fitbit's share in smartwatch shipments grew in 2018, owing to the huge success of its "Versa" smartwatch.

• Will consumers react to Xiaomi's aggressive push in $300 plus segment in India?

  2 days ago TECHNOLOGY The Economic Time 32

  With powerful specs and flagship design, the market leader is going aggressively in the $300 to $500 segment, competing with One Plus 7, Vivo,...

• Chrome, Firefox browser extensions leaked millions of users' data

  2 days ago TECHNOLOGY The Economic Time 39

  The data could be purchased for as little as $10 to $50, said cyber security researcher Sam Jadali whose report was first described in Ars...

• Shot in arm for BPOs: No GST on select services

  2 days ago TECHNOLOGY The Economic Time 29

  Business to be treated as 'intermediary' only when there is clear facilitation of services.

• Google, Facebook secretly track as you watch porn

  2 days ago TECHNOLOGY The Economic Time 25

  Porn-specific trackers in the top 10 are exoClick (40 per cent), JuicyAds (11 per cent), and EroAdvertising (9 per cent).

• A Dale Carnegie study shows what people think of bots doing appraisals

  2 days ago TECHNOLOGY The Economic Time 33

  While more than 60% of respondents were at least somewhat likely to accept appraisal by AI if they knew the criteria completely, the number...

• India down 3 places in mobile, broadband speed: Report

  2 days ago TECHNOLOGY The Economic Time 29

  Doug Suttles, Co-Founder and General Manager at Ookla, said: "An ever-evolving focus on sophisticated network infrastructure will always be...