Acer, one of the big devices companies, has launched its sub-brand Acerpure in India. This consumer electronics brand is available in many Asian and European countries. The company has launched air purifiers, fans, water purifiers, cordless vacuum cleaners and robotic vacuum cleaners in the country. LCD panel is provided in Acerpure air purifiers. Its starting…
The central government has banned many apps including PayU’s LazyPay, while tightening restrictions on lending apps. Earlier this week, the government had banned many lending apps. There were also apps from some Indian firms. The blocked apps include Fintech Kissht, Faircent and Indiabulls Home Loans. After the notice from the Ministry of Electronics and Information…
Zomato, which provides food delivery service through the app, has stopped its service in about 225 cities last month. The company has given this information in the December quarter results. Zomato has said that this decision has been taken due to low number of orders in these cities for the last few quarters. The company…
Users of instant messaging service WhatsApp in India say that the number of spam messages and calls they receive has increased. In a survey of WhatsApp users, about 76 percent said that such messages and calls they receive have increased due to their interactions with WhatsApp business accounts and their activity on Facebook or Instagram….
During the last financial year in the country, frauds related to online payments increased by more than 400 percent to Rs 14.57 billion. Digital payments have grown rapidly with the introduction of Unified Payments Interface (UPI). With this, users can easily transfer payments from their smartphones. Data from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has…
Bajaj Auto, one of the big automobile companies, has launched 3201 special edition of electric scooter Chetak. Its price is Rs 1.29 lakh (ex-showroom, Bengaluru). It will be sold this month only on e-commerce site Amazon. Some upgrades have been made to it. The company said that this is the first such collaboration between an…
iPhone maker Apple and Alphabet, which runs Internet search engine Google, have warned Amazon over the availability of obscene photographs accessible to children on the popular Kindle app for book reading. These companies have asked Amazon to strengthen its content moderation. Reuters sent questions to spokespersons for these three companies regarding users’ ability to access…
Internet search engine Google has faced a string of controversies in India for the past few months. Shark Tank India judge and businessman Anupam Mittal has termed Google’s billing system as “illegal” and described Alphabet, which runs it, as ‘Digital East India Company’. He said that Google has violated the laws of the country. Along…
Digital payment service Unified Payments Interface (UPI) is being expanded rapidly abroad. This QR based service has been launched in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). For this, NPCI International Payments Limited (NIPL) has tied up with Network International. Through Network International’s more than two lakh point-of-sale (POS) terminals in the UAE UPI Payments can be…
Trading in cryptocurrencies has grown rapidly in the last few years. Along with this, the cases of scams related to this segment have also increased. In a similar case, a software engineer from Pune in Maharashtra lost more than Rs 58 lakh. The cryptocurrency scam happened to this person between July 15 and August 12….