Poco Head and Xiaomi’s Global Spokesperson Leave Company Xiaomi is going through some changes, as a couple of top level executives are leaving the Chinese smartphone maker. Donovan Sung, Xiaomi’s global spokesperson, and a pretty popular face at Xiaomi, has announced that he is leaving Xiaomi to join Googleand help Google Pay expand more into developing countries. Donovan was one of the key executives at Xiaomi and helped the company expand into a lot of countries....

Redmi-branded 10,000mAh and 20,000mAh Power Banks Launched in China Xiaomi’s budget-centric Redmi brand is already known enough that the company is now steadily expanding its portfolio of products under the same. It started off this endeavor with smartphones, launchingRedmi AirDotsand suitcases later down the road. And now, Redmi has added one of the most Xiaomi products, i.e power banks, to its kitty. Redmi-branded 10,000mAh and 20,000mAh battery packs have been launched in China today, offering users access to new affordable means to juice up their devices on the go....

Reliance Jio Overtakes Airtel to Become Second Largest Telecom Operator in India In a development that was a long time coming,Reliance Jiohas finally edged past Bharti Airtel to become the second largest telecom service provider in the country by subscriber count. According to data released by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, the Mukesh Ambani-led company overtook the nation’s erstwhile number one carrier last May by adding 8.2 million users, while both Airtel and Vodafone Idea both saw a decline in their subscriber count....

TouchPal Developer CooTek Banned for Malicious Ad Practices Malwares have become the biggest problem plaguing the Google Play Store and there’s beennumerous reportingsof how numerous adware or spyware have sneaked past its defenses to affect users. They’ve been found to be buried in popular apps, with a huge number of downloads, and Google is known to suspend apps found guilty of the same. Well, the latest developer to be ‘temporarily’ banned by Google from the Play Store and their AdMob ad network is the popular TouchPal Keyboard creator CooTek....

Black Shark 2 Pro Launch Confirmed for July 30; May Ship With Snapdragon 855 Plus SoC Afterlaunching the Black Shark 2in Chinaand Indiaearlier this year, Xiaomi has just confirmed that it will launch a‘Pro’version of the device on July 30. While the company didn’t officially specify any of the differences between the standard version and the new one, online chatter suggests that the single biggest upgrade in the new model will be the all-new Snapdragon 855 Plus SoC that Qualcomm announced earlier this week....

Chennai Techie Wins $30,000 For Finding Critical Instagram Bug Chennai-based security researcher, Laxman Muthiyah, has won $30,000 as a part of a bug bounty program after he spotted a flaw in Facebook-owned photo-sharing app, Instagram. Muthiyah said the vulnerability allowed him to to“hack any Instagram account without consent permission”. He discovered it was possible to take over someone’s Instagram account by triggering a password reset, requesting a recovery code, or quickly trying out possible recovery codes against the account....

EMUI 9.1 Update For Huawei Devices to Roll Out Starting This Week Huawei has announced a definitive timeline for the roll-out of its next major software update in India. In a press release on Thursday, the company said that the incoming update will hit eight of its smartphones in the country. The update will start rolling out to the Huawei P20 Lite this week, followed by the Mate 20 Pro, Nova 3, Nova 3i and the Y9 (2019) from July 24....