Fake News Storm Hits Millions in India During Polls Veena Arora, a retired school principal in a small town of Uttar Pradesh, decided to use a smartphone in November last year for the first time at the cajoling of her children so that the family could stay together online even though they live in different cities. In no time, she joined WhatsApp and started getting updates from family, relatives and friends....

Google Removes Huawei Mate 20 Pro from Android Q Beta With the US-China trade war intensifying, Huawei is suffering setback after setback. A couple of days backGoogle restricted Huawei’s use of its Android licensebasically forcing Huawei into using AOSP. Earlier today,Microsoft removed Huawei’s MateBook X Profrom its official online store, and now, in another blow to the Chinese giant, Google has removed Huawei’s flagship Mate 20 Pro from the Android Q Beta program....

Huawei’s Alternative OS to Android, HongMeng, Could Roll out as Early as this Fall Under mounting pressure from the US government, andfacing restrictionsfromvariousUS-basedtech giants, it’s only logical that Huawei has been working on a contingency plan for a situation such as the one the company finds itself in now. To that end, the company had announced that it’s working on its own operating system, which,reports suggest is going to be named HongMeng....

Microsoft Removes Huawei Laptops from Its Store After Google’s restrictions on Huawei’s Android license, Microsoft is now taking steps to comply with US President Donald Trump’s crackdown on Chinese giant Huawei. The company has stopped selling Huawei laptops on its official store, and all listings for Huawei laptops, including the Huawei MateBook X Pro have been removed by the company, sometime in the last week. While that would come as a big shock to Huawei, which is already reeling from theAndroid restrictions imposed on it, if Microsoft happens to ban Huawei from using Windows in its devices, that could be apotential catastropheon the Chinese company’s hands....

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Political Ad Spend Hits Rs. 27.7 Crore on Facebook as Polls End Led by the Bharatiya Janata Party, political parties in India spent a total of Rs 27.73 crore on Facebook for posting political ads on the platform as the seven-phase general election ended on May 19. From February 19 to May 19, political parties posted 124,094 ads on Facebook to reach out to their audiences, showed the latest data on Facebook Ad Library for India....

Sony is Pulling the Plug on its India Mobile Business We can clearly see that Sony’s smartphone business has been on the back foot and we haven’t seen any new launches from the Japanese giant in India for quite some time now. The Xperia XZ2 was possibly the last smartphone from Sony to land in the country, which launched in mid-2018 at a heftier price as compared to rivals. We are closing in on a year since that flagship launch and the reason we haven’t heard anything from Sony since then was recently detailed at the company’s corporate strategy meeting....