Flipkart Looking For Video Partners to Challenge Amazon Prime Flipkart and Amazon are the two dominant forces in the Indian e-commerce industry, but Amazon’s diverse portfolio of services, especially the Prime Video platform, gives Amazon a slight edge over Flipkart. Flipkart is now planning to invest in videos in order to challenge Amazon on yet another front after e-commerce. In an interview with theEconomicTimes, Flipkart CEO Kalyan Krishnamurthy revealed that the company will launch a video platform and collaborate with other companies to produce video content such as movies....

GIPHY Updates Its iOS App to Add ‘Sticker Maker’ and Keyboard Extension Like it or not, GIFs are now an essential part of digital communication. You can now send GIF images on almost all the messaging platforms out there, that too with just a tap of a button. This is also why GIF-making platforms likeGIPHYare on the rise, bringing new features to the table. On the same lines, GIPHY has now added a new sticker making feature to its iOS app....

Google Not Ruling Out Plans to Build China Search Engine, Pichai Reveals Google’s plans, if any, to launch a search platform in China complying to the country’s internet censorship rules, was seemingly stalled by aopposition from users,employees, andpoliticiansalike. And yesterday, whiletestifying in front of the US Congress, CEO Sundar Pichai assured the interrogators thatthe tech giant has no plans of entering China anytime soon, but he didn’t rule it out completely either....

Google Search in India: Here Are The Most Popular Personalities, Songs and Movies of 2018 Malayalam actress Priya Prakash Varrier, who shot to fame following her ‘wink song’ ‘Manikya Malaraya Poovi’ from the film ‘Oru Addar Love’ has become the most searched personality of the year, Google India said today in its annual recap. Varrier was followed by Priyanka Chopra’s spouse Nick Jonas in the list of most searched personalities. Chopra herself was the fourth most searched personality on Google....

Here’s Why Google Shows You Donald Trump When You Search For ‘Idiot’ The internet despisesDonald Trumpand Google is not able to do much about it. Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai was summoned for around of grilling by a committeecomprising of US Senators, yesterday. While the session was primarily around the tech giant’s role in maintaining a fair and indiscriminate platform for searching anything on the internet, some lawmakers were more curious about how Google manages to goof up results....

Indian Security Engineer Wins Bounty For Microsoft Office 365, Outlook Bugs A Kerala-based application security engineer has won bug bounty from Microsoft for discovering a series of vulnerabilities that left over 400 million Microsoft users’ accounts — from Office 365 to Outlook emails — open to hacking. Sahad NK, who works as a security researcher with cybersecurity portal Safetydetective.com, came across multiple vulnerabilities that, when chained together, allow an attacker to take over any Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Store, or Microsoft Sway account simply via the victim clicking on a link....

Instagram Testing ‘Creator Accounts’ for Celebs, Influencers With over 1 billion monthly users,Instagramhas become the go-to platform for marketers to reach their target audience. Now, in order to woo the influencers and celebrities on its platform, the company has decided to rollout ‘creator accounts’ with features like analytics and direct messaging filters. According toThe Hollywood Reporter, Instagram is currently testing these creator-specific accounts with a small group of people. Reportedly, these creator-specific accounts are meant for digital influencers and artists with rapid growth on the platform....