Samsung Will Disrupt Mid-range Smartphone Segment in India This Diwali, Says DJ Koh Hellbent on preparing India to“make for the world”, DJ Koh, President and CEO of IT and Mobile Communications Division, Samsung Electronics, said here on Wednesday that the company is once again refreshing its mid-price segment smartphones with flagship premium features for the upcoming festive quarter. According to Koh, the fourth quarter (October-December) in India, which is a key market for the company, will see some exciting launches that will completely alter the course of the mid-segment market — a space that is currently flooded with Chinese variants....

This Algorithm Outsmarts Humans at Detecting Fake News Researchers have demonstrated an algorithm-based automated solution that is comparable to and sometimes better than humans at correctly identifying fake news stories. The system that identifies telltale linguistic cues in fake news stories could provide news aggregator and social media sites likeGoogle Newswith a new weapon in the fight against misinformation. An automated solution could be an important tool for sites that are struggling to deal with an onslaught of fake news stories, often created to generate clicks or to manipulate public opinion, Rada Mihalcea, the University of Michigan professor behind the project, said in a statement....

Tinder Wants to Help You Score a Date on Campus with Tinder U Tinderhasannouncedthe launch of a new service called Tinder U that’s aimed only at college and University students (the ‘U’ stands for University). It will be available as part of the regular app, but will only be available for students at“4-year, accredited, not-for-profit schools in the U.S. that deliver courses in a traditional face-to-face learning format”, says the company....

Wondershare Video Converter Ultimate Review: A Great Tool for Swift Video Conversion Videos are all around us, and most of us like to create our own videos. But the issue that persists with videos is compatibility. With over 1000 formats out there, each device only supports a certain amount of formats, and as such, there exists a need for video converters. But with so many options to choose from, which one’s right for you?...

Xiaomi Revenue Surges 68% in Q2 2018 Thanks To Strong Sales in India, IoT Success Driven by strong smartphones sales inprice-sensitive markets such as India, Chinese handset maker Xiaomi Corp today reported a revenue of approximately $6.6 billion, representing an increase of 68.3 percent year-on-year. The results for the quarter ending June 30 marked the first set of quarterly earnings report for Xiaomi since its $4.7 billioninitial public offeringin Hong Kong in July....

‘Make In India’ Push For Mobile Manufacturing Saved India Rs 3 Lakh Crore: Industry Report Driven by the government’s‘Make in India’initiative, the mobile handset manufacturing eco-system in India has helped the country save a whopping Rs 3 lakh crore by replacing imports of completely-built units (CBU) with locally manufactured and assembled handsets during the past four years, said a new report today. In 2017-18, over 225 million handsets were assembled/ manufactured in India which was approximately 80 per cent of the total market requirements, according to the India Cellular and Electronics Association (ICEA) report....

‘Paytm AI Cloud’ Launched for Developers, Startups in India, in Partnership with Alibaba In collaboration with Chinese tech giantAlibaba, digital payments majorPaytmon Tuesday launched its AI Cloud computing platform for developers, start-ups and enterprises in India. This platform offers a suite of business-centric apps for organisations that need high-quality solutions for cloud computing, ready-to-use services to automate their workflow, easy to integrate payments, messaging and customer engagement without the hassle of managing hardware and software, Paytm parent One97 Communications said in a statement....