Tea4Tech - Episode. 04

Here are the headlines for this episode: 1. Microsoft buys stake in London Stock Exchange Group in a twist on digital transformation deals Microsoft has announced a 10-year strategic partnership with the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) to put the financial markets providers’ infrastructure and data analytics onto the Microsoft cloud – and has acquired a 4% stake in the group in the process. 2. Meta Takes Down Indian Firm CyberRoot Risk Advisory's Accounts Along With 900 Chinese Fake Accounts Social media giant Meta has taken down over 40 accounts operated by an Indian firm CyberRoot Risk Advisory, allegedly involved in hacking-for-hire services. 3. Twitter bans some journalists who cover Elon Musk Twitter accounts belonging to several prominent journalists covering the company's owner, Elon Musk, have had their accounts abruptly suspended. 4. Instagram's new tool will help people regain access to their hacked accounts Instagram has announced Instagram.com/hacked, a new platform that will allow users to report and try to get access to their accounts back. "To support accounts that are experiencing access issues or may have been hacked 5. WhatsApp confirms this 'new mode' for video calls on iPhones Picture-in-picture (PiP) mode shrinks a video into a small player, allowing users to keep watching it while using other smartphone apps. It is a floating window which means you can move the player around your device’s screen and position it as per convenience.

Tea4Tech - Episode. 03

Here are the headlines for this episode: 1. AIIMS Delhi Cyberattack Highlights Security Risks, Online Operations Resume After Two Weeks. The attack on November 23 was followed by a series of failed attempts to hack the country's top medical research organization, the Indian Council of Medical Research. 2. Twitter Blue Pricing to Be Lowered for Web Users, Twitter plans to change the pricing of its Twitter Blue subscription product to $7 if users pay for it through the website, and $11 if they do so through its iPhone app 3. Reliance Jio has introduced a new Rs. 222 data add-on packs exclusively for the ongoing FIFA World Cup 2022 in Qatar. The plan comes with a validity of 30 days with high-speed data consumption of up to 50GB. This plan can only be used with an existing base plan and users can use the data to stream the FIFA World Cup. 4. Vaultree raises $12.8M to let companies more easily work with encrypted data. Vaultree is a Google Cloud partner, delivering what it claims is one of the first fully managed, functional data-in-use encryption schemes. And for on-premises setups, Vaultree provides a software development kit that lets customers slot its tech into their existing software environments.

Tea4Tech - Episode. 02

Here are the headlines for this episode: 1. Twitter alternative Hive shuts down its app to fix critical security issues The team at the newly popular Twitter alternative Hive is in over its head. The company has now taken the radical step of fully shutting down its servers for a couple of days in response to concerns raised by security researchers who discovered several critical vulnerabilities in Hive 2. Smartphone re-commerce startup Badili raises $2.1M pre-seed funding Badili, a Kenya-based smartphone re-commerce startup, has raised $2.1 million in pre-seed funding to scale its operations within Africa, one of the fastest-growing mobile phone markets in the world. It plans to explore new growth opportunities in West Africa, where it hopes to tap an increasing demand for affordable second-hand smartphones 3. Dropbox acquires Boxcryptor assets to bring zero-knowledge encryption to file storage Dropbox has announced plans to bring end-to-end encryption to its business users, and it’s doing so through acquiring “key assets” from Germany-based cloud security company Boxcryptor. 4. AWS launches Application Composer, a low-code tool for building serverless apps The service provides developers with a visual canvas and a simple drag-and-drop interface to create the application architecture, connect their resources and design their functions.

Tea4Tech - Episode. 01

Here are the headlines for this episode: 1. India’s Twitter rival – microblogging site Koo – became the top app in Brazil, 48 hours after it launched in the South American country, the company said in a press release Monday. 2. Amazon has set up its second AWS region in India and says the cloud unit will invest more than $4.4 billion in the South Asian market by 2030, part of the company’s attempts to widen its growing cloud tentacles across the globe 3. HP Inc said on Tuesday it expects to cut up to 6,000 jobs by the end of fiscal 2025, or about 12% of its global workforce, at a time when sales of personal com ters and laptops are sliding as shoppers tighten budgets.-Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) 4. India is set to be the second-fastest growing economy in theG20 in FY 2022-23 behind Saudi Arabia, despite decelerating global demand and the tightening of monetary policy to manage inflationary pressures. 5. Big boost to IT sector as Australia clears landmark trade deal with India-Google is bringing a new augmented reality Live View feature to its Maps app, allowing smartphone users to visually search for restaurants, coffee shops, and other businesses that are located nearby. 6. Zomato is asking employees across departments to leave the company. It is said that the company is letting go of around 3 per cent of the workforce in the latest episode of layoffs.