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Indian financial technology company Paytm Payments Services Ltd has received an extension from the country’s banking regulator to apply for a payment aggregator licence and aims to reapply in about 15 days, the company said. Paytm Payments Services, in the meantime, can continue with the online payment aggregation business for its existing partners, without taking […]

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said that he was happy his recent ban on the use of Chinese-owned social media app TikTok from government-issued devices meant his children could no longer access the platform. Speaking at a joint news conference with US President Joe Biden in Ottawa, Trudeau said: “Our concerns around TikTok are around

Cryptocurrency exchange Binance has suspended deposits and withdrawals on its platform due to technical issues affecting its spot trading, Chief Executive Changpeng Zhao said in a tweet on Friday. “Initial analysis indicates matching engine encountered a bug on a trailing stop order,” he said in a tweet, adding that the pause in deposits and withdrawals

Amazon.com Inc on Wednesday raised the minimum starting pay for its employees at the UK operations to between 11 pounds ($13.50) and 12 pounds per hour. The move comes after workers at an Amazon warehouse in Coventry, central England, had struck work for several days in a dispute over pay earlier this year. The increase

Twitter CEO Elon Musk on Saturday said that the micro-blogging platform will open source all code used for recommending tweets on March 31. Musk tweeted: “Twitter will open source all code used to recommend tweets on March 31.” “Our ‘algorithm’ is overly complex and not fully understood internally. People will discover many silly things, but

Bengaluru, The Centre has submitted to the Karnataka High Court that American microblogging platform Twitter cannot take protection under Article 19 of the Constitution which ensures freedom of speech and expression. The Article 19 of the Constitution guarantees freedom of speech and expression to Indian citizens and not to foreigners and foreign entities, the Additional

Indian space agency said it had successfully completed the tests to check Chandrayaan-3 — moon spacecraft — to withstand the harsh vibration and acoustic environment that the spacecraft would face during its launch. According to the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), the tests were conducted during the first week of March 2023 at the test

Tesla Inc Chief Executive Elon Musk and Chinese electric vehicle and battery maker BYD Co Ltd denied a media report that said the US company was ending cooperation with BYD on battery supplies. The Korean Economic Daily on Sunday cited industry sources as saying Tesla had not asked BYD for an additional supply of batteries

Electric-vehicle maker Rivian Automotive Inc and its largest shareholder Amazon.com Inc are in talks to end the exclusivity part of their electric van deal, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday citing people familiar with the matter. Online retailer Amazon had placed an order for 100,000 electric delivery vans (EDVs) from the Irvine, California-based EV

Tech giant Samsung has claimed that reports of a new internal CPU development team are not true. “A recent media report that Samsung has established an internal team dedicated to CPU core development is not true,” the tech giant told SamMobile. “Contrary to the news, we have long had multiple internal teams responsible for CPU