Cook Thanks Employees, Remembers Jobs Following Trillion-Dollar Valuation; Forgets Wozniak Applebecame the first publicly traded US company to bevalued at $1 trillionafter its stock gained 2.5 percent on Thursday, closing at $207.39. Followingthe development, the company’s CEO, Tim Cook, send out a memo to more than 120,000 employees, thanking them for their contribution towards the company’s success. He was also quick to point out that the valuation was just a mere‘milestone’and not an end in itself....

Cupertino Hoping Apple Might Pay to Bring Hyperloop to the City With the traditional transportation infrastructure in most countries becoming woefully inadequate in the face of rapid urbanization, SpaceX CEO and celebrated tech entrepreneur, Elon Musk, is investing heavily in a high-speed, pollution-free, solar power-driven transport system called‘Hyperloop’that, when implemented, in expected to fix many of the problems faced by conventional modes of transport. One of the many cities that is in negotiations to bring Hyperloop to their backyard is Cupertino, California, which is best-known for housing the headquarters of tech giant Apple....

Exclusive: How MX Player is Revamping Itself To Take On Netflix, Hotstar and Amazon Prime in India MX Player is easily among the most popular apps among all categories with 500 million+ downloads vouching for its quality. And yes, for years it’s been the go-to video player on Android. But with its recent acquisition byTimes Internet,MX Player will soon be evolving intoa video-on-demand applicationwhich will bringonline English and regional content with personalized recommendations to users in India....

FIFA eWorld Cup Grand Final 2018 Finals To Be Held This Weekend in London TheFIFA World Cup 2018is done with and France took home the crown on the field. But there is another FIFA-sponsored world cup underway in the digital world. Sponsored by EA Sports, theFIFA eWorld Cup Grand Final 2018tournament is underway in London and the top 32 players from all across the world are competing to prove their mettle....

Google Maps Will Soon Show Public Toilets, Real-Time Bus Transit Info in India Back in December last year, Google introduced a new feature in Google Maps exclusively for Indian users calledmotorcycleortwo-wheeler mode, and laterexpandedits availability to a host of other Asian countries such as Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar among others. A Google executive has now revealed that the company will soon introduce more India-specific features in Google Maps, and also shared some details about a few projects which are in development and currently under the testing phase....

Govt Withdraws Plan To Setup Social Media Monitoring Hubs Across India Putting an end to mass surveillance fears, the central government has now withdrawn its controversial plan to establish‘social media monitoring hubs’across the country. The centre informed the Supreme Court of this decision, which means we won’t see any such hubs pop up around the country. The government had put forth aproposal to set up ‘social media communication hubs’ (SMCH) across the countryto monitor online activity, but the Supreme Court was afraid that it’lllead to the creation of a surveillance stateand said it would impede the right of privacy of their citizens....

Huawei Aims to Top Global Smartphone Market Share by next Year Already the second-largest smartphone company globally aftergoing past Applelast month, China’s Huawei has now declared ambitions of knocking leader Samsung off its perch. Richard Yu, head of Huawei’s consumer device business, told reporters on Friday that he believes the company could be No. 1 with a market share of more than 20 percent before the end of 2019. The company, as mentioned already, is currently the second-largest smartphone vendor in the world behind Samsung, having gone past Apple during the second quarter of this year....