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US House speaker says lawmakers to move forward with TikTok bill

US House speaker says lawmakers to move forward with TikTok bill

In the United States, there are growing calls to ban TikTok, owned by China-based company ByteDance, or to pass bipartisan legislation to give President Joe Biden's administration legal authority to seek a ban. Devices owned by the U.S. government were recent…

Paytm gets extension for Payment Aggregator licence application

Paytm gets extension for Payment Aggregator licence application

Paytm Payments Services, in the meantime, can continue with the online payment aggregation business for its existing partners, without taking on any new merchants, the company said in a notification to stock exchanges on Sunday.

Gap grows between TikTok users, lawmakers on potential ban

Gap grows between TikTok users, lawmakers on potential ban

The disconnect illustrates the uphill battle that lawmakers from both sides of the aisle face in trying to convince the public that China could use TikTok as a weapon against the American people.

WE Hub ties up with Australia's Cyber West Sign to back women entrepreneurs

WE Hub ties up with Australia's Cyber West Sign to back women entrepreneurs

​​The collaboration aims to help Australian startups break into the rapidly expanding Indian market and vice versa, by utilising the expertise of WE Hub and Cyber West Sign in their respective markets, a press release from WE Hub said.

Hardware maker Tenstorrent to partner with Indian startups for building open source RISC-V based microprocessors

Hardware maker Tenstorrent to partner with Indian startups for building open source RISC-V based microprocessors

Tenstorrent CEO Jim Keller said that he is looking forward to real India projects to come out of the country's startups like building an entire data centre using RISC V services designed by local companies.

DeFi 2.0: New era of decentralized finance emerges with enhanced security, scalability, and interoperability

DeFi 2.0: New era of decentralized finance emerges with enhanced security, scalability, and interoperability

DeFi 2.0 is ushering in the next wave of innovation, leveraging new technologies, security, cross-chain protocols, and NFTs to build more powerful and scalable financial applications. Get ready for the billion lives it will touch over the next 3-5 years.

Avalon Technologies' Rs 865 crore-IPO to open for subscription on April 3

Avalon Technologies' Rs 865 crore-IPO to open for subscription on April 3

The company has cut the size of its IPO to Rs 865 crore from Rs 1,025 crore planned earlier. The reduction in the IPO size was a result of the pre-IPO placement carried out by the company, which amounted to Rs 160 crore.

Academic text produced by ChatGPT formulaic, would be picked up by AI-detection tools: study

Academic text produced by ChatGPT formulaic, would be picked up by AI-detection tools: study

The findings should serve as a wake-up call to university staff to think about ways to explain to students and minimise academic dishonesty, researchers from Plymouth Marjon University and the University of Plymouth, UK, said.

India's digital public infra a story worth showcasing: Cisco India President

India's digital public infra a story worth showcasing: Cisco India President

The Cisco India top honcho also pointed to CoWIN (the digital backbone of COVID-19 vaccination programme) and India's digital health ID mission to highlight how the country had successfully engineered and scaled digital solutions.