What seemed like a regular workday turned out to be the final day of employment for 900 employees of the US-based digital mortgage lender company, Better.com. At a Zoom meeting, Vish Garg, CEO of Better.com, fired 900 of his employees at once without any prior indication or warning.

Rohingya refugees sued Facebook on Monday for $150 billion over claims the social network is failing to stem hate speech on its platform, exacerbating violence against the vulnerable minority.

Xiaomi today announces the launch of its first locally made smartphone, Redmi 9A. Redmi 9A comes equipped with a 6.53″ Dot Drop display and a 5,000mAh high-capacity battery. The device also features a 12nm MediaTek Helio G25 and an octa-core gaming chipset.

Parag Agrawal was recently appointed as Twitter’s CEO, again raising the question why so many India-born techies have the corner offices of the world’s most influential Silicon Valley companies.

Dhaka University’s Innovation, Creativity and Entrepreneurship Centre to pace up mainstreaming entrepreneurial education in partnership with Korea International Cooperation Agency

According to reports from global auctioneers, the computer that Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, used when making Wikipedia 20 years ago is going to be sold. Alongside his PC, an NFT of Wales’ first ever edit on Wikipedia is up for grabs as well.

Google is reportedly planning to release its first in-house smartwatch next year, reveals a report by Insider.

Earlier today, Apple revealed the list of their most downloaded apps this year, as well as choosing 15 apps and games, the winners of the App Store Awards 2021.

After a year that made the terms WFH (work from home) and metaverse instantly recognisable for many people, there are a new set of technological trends headed this way for 2022. Here's a selection of how technology may change lives in the coming year:

Facebook owner Meta Platforms Inc (FB.O) said on Wednesday it had removed accounts used by an influence operation originating in China that promoted claims of a fake "Swiss biologist" saying the United States was interfering in the search for Covid-19's origins.

Parag Agrawal, who was recently named the CEO of Twitter, will receive an annual salary of USD 1 million along with other perks and bonuses. Agrawal, the India-born executive who succeeds Jack Dorsey in this role, had served as Twitter's Chief Technology Officer since 2017 and has been responsible for the company's technical strategy.

On November 30, just after the announcement of the new CEO Parag Agrawal, Twitter launched a brand new image-sharing policy. Users are now prohibited from sharing private images of people without their consent.

Online educational platform 10 Minute School has raised $2 million in seed funding from Surge, Sequoia Capital India’s rapid scale-up programme, to increase investment in product and technology.

Facebook owner Meta has been told by the UK competition watchdog to sell popular animated images platform Giphy in Britain's first such move against so-called Big Tech in its efforts to bolster regulation of the sector.

Parag Agrawal being appointed Twitter’s new CEO marks yet another Indian-born tech executive stepping up to be a new leader of the global tech industry. Just in January this year, we had Arvind Krishna, another Indian-American business executive, promoted to the Chairman of IBM. He had also been serving as the CEO of IBM since April 2020.

Twitter, the microblogging and short message-based social media platform is getting a new CEO. Its co-founder and the former CEO Jack Dorsey announced his retirement as CEO in a tweet yesterday. In the very same tweet, he also made public the name of the person replacing him: Parag Agrawal.

Infinix has released their latest addition to the Note series: Note 11 Pro featuring Helio G96 octa-core processor.

Shikho, the Dhaka-based EdTech startup has confirmed it has acquired Bohubrihi, one of the leading online professional course platforms in the country. The move signals an acceleration of Shikho’s broader vision to provide quality education and instruction for learners of all ages in Bangladesh.

India's government will introduce a bill to ban private cryptocurrencies and create a framework for a central bank-backed digital money, parliament said in a shock announcement late Tuesday. The proposed bill “seeks to prohibit all private cryptocurrencies in India”, the Lok Sabha said, and comes after Prime Minister Narendra Modi warned last week that Bitcoin presents a risk to younger generations and could “spoil our youths” if it ends up “in the wrong hands”.

The Pentagon is creating a new office to investigate unidentified flying objects amid concerns that after broad probes it cannot explain mysterious sightings near highly sensitive military areas. Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks, working with the US director of national intelligence, ordered the new investigatory body to be established in the US Defense Department's intelligence and security office, the Pentagon said late Tuesday.