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Merchants hit by revision in payment norms form an alliance

The alliance is open for memberships to merchants that use digital payments

Sonos Move portable speaker review: Expensive, but premium sound quality

Those who had nothing but Bose to look at can consider this speaker as well--in my view its sound output matches that of Bose, though some of the other features set them apart

Apple adds new feature to let users directly report app scams

Apple has added a new-and-improved version of its "Report a Problem" button which will now let users directly report a scammy app from its listing in the App Store.

Facebook employees were unable to log on to work amid outage

Facebook employees and contractors complained that they were unable to log on to their work accounts during the company's worst service outage since 2008.

Millions of users flock to Signal and Telegram after Facebook outage

Millions of new users joined the Edward Snowden-endorsed Signal on Monday, it said on Twitter

Here's what Facebook says triggered the massive outage on its apps

"This disruption to network traffic had a cascading effect on the way our data centers communicate, bringing our services to a halt," the company's engineering team wrote in a blog post Monday night

Facebook blames 'faulty configuration change' for nearly six-hour outage

The company in a late Monday blog post did not specify who executed the configuration change and whether it was planned.

Facebook apologises for outage, says services 'back up and running'

All of Facebook's services, including WhatsApp and Instagram, were down for users globally beginning Monday night.

Address this: Facebook's 6-hour outage likely caused by simple tech problem

Not only did Facebook's primary platforms go down, but so too did some of its internal applications, including the company's own email system

Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp partly reconnecting after six-hour outage

Facebook's engineering team apologised as the apps started to come back online

Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram face global outage: Check details here

"WhatsApp", and "#facebookdown", "#whatsappdown" and "#instagramdown" were trending on Twitter on Monday evening in India

Apple to release new watch on October 15 following production snags

The company plans to begin taking orders for the product -- called the Apple Watch Series 7 this Friday

Realme GT Master Edition review: Not a masterful smartphone with right mix

The phone has a bit of everything; the screen is great and battery life is excellent. But sound quality and camera do not come up to the expectations

Indian SaaS industry is gearing up to move onto global platforms

With digital transformation boosting enterprise tech intensity, Indian software-as-a-service players have gained immensely

Clothing & accessories to home appliances, a digital festive season's here

An on-device survey of 2,500 Indian mobile users over Inmobi Pulse

Online gaming firms are building sophisticated fraud detection mechanisms

By 2023, the Indian online gaming sector is expected to reach a value of $2 billion in terms of fees earned, up from $543 million in 2016

A Quad alliance for emerging technology

While fear of Chinese tech domination brings together the large democracies, India has announced collaborations in defence security systems driven by emerging tech, including drone manufacturing

Cybercrime pendency rose in two-thirds of states in 2020: NCRB data

Chargesheeting, which indicates the rate of disposal of crime cases by the police, declined in nearly half the states when compared to 2019

Facebook 'actioned' about 31.7 mn content pieces in Aug '21, shows report

Facebook "actioned" about 31.7 million content pieces across 10 violation categories proactively during August in the country, the social media giant said in its compliance report on Friday

'Consumers aren't stupid': Google lawyer rejects EU market abuse ruling

European Commission hit Alphabet's Google with a 4.34 billion euro fine in 2018 for using its Android mobile operating system to thwart rivals and cement its dominance in general internet searching