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Bengaluru software firms seek flexi working hours

Currently, engineers are not allowed to work beyond stipulated nine hours; overtime is a breach

A dozen tech stories that rocked India in 2016

Here's a rundown of some of India's tech movers and shakers of 2016, reports Tech In Asia

Facebook users beware! Even your offline data is no longer secure

Facebook uses algorithms to categorise its users in micro-targetable groups for advertisers

Apple's iPhone, iPad a big hit this holiday season, beat Samsung

During the period between Dec 19 to 25, iPhone and iPad accounted for 44% of all mobile activations

A good year for gadgets, Samsung Note 7 the only hiccup

ASPs were Rs 8,400 in 2015. In 2016, it crossed Rs 9,000 while the volumes stagnated

Google Doodle pays tribute to Charles Macintosh on 250th birthday

Macintosh is known as the father of raincoat

I launched 5 startups in 2016. Here's why, how, and what I learned

Asim raised $7 million without telling investors what they were investing in, reports Tech In Aisa

Cash-strapped LeEco in talks on $1.4 billion support, starts e-car plant

Chinese technology conglomerate LeEco did not disclose the identity of the investor

A new shopping experience via technology

AI and chatbots have already been available and everyone is already piloting some aspect of bots

Qualcomm fined $854 mn by S Korean regulators

The regulator ruled firm abused its dominant market position

Here are Alibaba's biggest investments in 2016

Alibaba's biggest acquisition was South-east Asian e-commerce giant Lazada, reports Tech in Asia

Coolpad to enhance play in premium smartphone segment

The smartphone will be available for purchase from January 5 exclusively on Amazon.In via open sales

First impression: Nubia's Z11 and N1 are elegant, eye-catching

Priced at Rs 29,999 and Rs 11,999, Nubia Z11 & N1 will be available exclusively on Amazon from Dec16

New tech to make credit cards, mobile transactions hack proof!

To protect communications between tags and readers, researchers are designing new RFID protocols

South Korean antitrust regulator fines Qualcomm $865 mn

Qualcomm rejected the ruling, saying it plans to appeal it in court

Connecting all the world's robots may drive 2017's top technology trends

Virtual reality in particular has dominated the news throughout the year

98.8% school children in urban areas have access to the internet: Report

Over 35% children have experienced their account being hacked

Online learning grows 50% in 2016; tech, English take lead

Coursera has seen a 50% jump in registered users, especially among technology learners

Apple publishes its first paper on artificial intelligence

The company has developed a method for S+U learning that uses an adversarial network similar to GANs

Forget Pokemon Go, this Chinese mobile game lets you literally grab money

This is all happening inside Alipay, China's most popular mobile payments app, reports Tech in Asia