International

08 Sep

Japan launches rocket carrying moon lander SLIM

Priyanka BhowmickInternational, internationalInternational, Japan

Japan on Thursday (September 7) launched a rocket that plans to become the country's first successful moon lander, as seen in live footage shared by the country's space agency. The H2-A rocket, carrying the precision "Moon Sniper" lander, blasted off at 8:42 a.m. (2342 GMT Wednesday) and is expected to land on the lunar surface in four to six months The rocket was launched from Tanegashima in southern Japan after being postponed three times due to bad weather and gathering nearly 35,000 online viewers. The rocket is also carrying a research satellite developed by NASA, the European Space Agency and…

19 Aug

Elon Musk will no longer allow users to block accounts on X

Priyanka BhowmickBusiness, InternationalBusiness, International

Elon Musk, the owner of X (formerly known as Twitter), has announced that the platform will remove the blocking feature for its users, saying it "doesn't make sense." However, users will still have the ability to block others from sending direct messages. Musk's move is just one of many changes since the site was acquired in a $44 billion deal last year. Currently, when a user blocks an account, it prevents that account's posts from appearing in the blocker's timeline, and vice versa. In addition, a blocked account loses the ability to send messages to the blocker and view their…

04 Aug

Japan asks X to take down fake account

Priyanka BhowmickBusiness, InternationalBusiness, india

Japan's Finance Ministry (MOF) on Thursday warned of a fake account for its top currency diplomat Masato Kanda on Social Media X, formerly known as Twitter, as markets fear currency interference within a month low of the yen. In a rare English-language post on X, the ministry said "Please do not follow impersonated accounts and/or comment on posts", saying such an X account did not allegedly belong to Kanda or his staff. "The MOF is currently requesting that X (formerly Twitter) suspend the impersonated account. Thank you for your cooperation", it said on its official account. The account, named "Masato…

24 Jun

Singapore’s Grab slashes 1,000 jobs in biggest round of job cuts since pandemic

Priyanka BhowmickBusiness, InternationalBusiness, Entertainment

Singapore's ride-hailing company Grab is cutting about 1,000 jobs, or about 11 percent of its workforce. This is the biggest round of job layoffs by the Southeast Asian tech giant since the pandemic, when it laid off about 360 employees in 2020. Grab CEO Anthony Tan said the layoffs were not a "shortcut to profits" but part of a fundamental shift in the company's operating model and cost structure. He described the decision to lay off around 1,000 employees as a 'painful but necessary step'. In a letter to Grab staff, Tan wrote, “I want to be clear that we…

23 Jun

OLX Group fires 800 employees after shutting down OLX Autos in several regions

Priyanka BhowmickAccident, India, InternationalBusiness, india

In the last few years, many big and small companies around the world have retrenched employees. In this series, the online marketplace OLX Group has announced plans to reduce its workforce globally and has laid off a large number of employees. The group has laid off around 800 employees worldwide. Let us tell you that OLX Group has business in 30 countries, including India, and its headquarters are in Amsterdam. According to a report in TechCrunch, after searching for potential buyers and investors, the company has started winding down operations of its automotive unit, OLX Auto, in the market. A…

23 Jun

All 5 on Titanic Submarine are dead, US Coast Guard says

Priyanka BhowmickAccident, Internationalindia

All the fears came true and the submarine Titan was destroyed. The fate of submarines is similar to that of visiting the wreck of the famous ship Titanic. According to the sources of the USA Cost Guard, the submarine collapsed shortly after diving under the water. Five people in the submarine died. The wreckage of the submarine was found around noon on Thursday US time. Incidentally, the submarine Titan was missing since last Sunday. In a press conference on Thursday, the US Navy said that the submarine Titan had broken down very close to the wreckage of the Titanic. The…

15 Jun

Google Doodle reminds Pakistan about its general elections

Priyanka BhowmickInternationalInternational

Google's new Doodle reminds the people of Pakistan that the country is going to hold elections this year. Pakistan's last elections were held in 2018 where former cricketer Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party secured a comfortable victory by winning 149 of the 342 seats in the National Assembly with a vote share of 31.82 percent. However, the Imran Khan government was ousted from the government last year and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif took over. Khan blamed the then army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa and the US for plotting his ouster. Pakistan's next general election is scheduled to be held…

13 Jun

EU regulators may demand Google sell part of Ad-tech Business

Priyanka BhowmickInternationalWorld

European Union antitrust regulators may order Alphabet Inc Google to sell part of its ad-tech business, a source with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters on Monday. The European Union's top antitrust watchdog, the European Commission, is expected to issue a formal complaint against Google as early as Wednesday, the source said, intensifying trans-Atlantic efforts to reduce the tech giant's dominance in digital advertising. In 2022, the Commission opened an investigation into Google's pervasive presence at nearly all levels of the supply chain for online display advertising, raising concerns about its dominant position. Break-up orders from EU competition enforcers…

05 Jun

Elon Musk’s Twitter hires NBCUniversal’s Joe Benarroch in operations role

Priyanka BhowmickBusiness, InternationalBusiness

Elon Musk's Twitter is hiring NBCUniversal senior executive Joe Benarch to focus on business operations.At NBCUniversal, Benark was executive vice president of communications, global advertising and partnerships. In a memo to colleagues on Sunday, Benarch said he was taking a business operations position at Twitter. "I look forward to bringing my experience to Twitter and working with the entire team to build Twitter 2.0," he wrote. “Welcome to the flock, @benarroch_joe! From one bird to the next," tweeted Incoming Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino

16 May

Mark Zuckerberg move towards AI to create new products

editorBusiness, International

This isn't the first time Zuckerberg has shifted his focus from one new technology to another. Earlier, Zuckerberg had taken the same stance on crypto and metaverse. (File photo). After various experiments on crypto and the metaverse, Mark Zuckerberg has now turned to AI in his quest to define the future of meta. Facebook becoming Meta on October 28, 2021, was a sign of how quickly Mark Zuckerberg wanted to change the social network he created. Facebook was founded in 2004 and has so far maintained its relevance primarily through acquisitions. It seems the challenge Zuckerberg is facing is moving…