BILLION Archive

BENGALURU: In a forecast, the IT researcher Gartner on Monday said overall IT spending in India would grow 6.6% to reach $94 billion in 2020, from $88.5 billion in 2019. This growth would primarily be driven by spending in software. India’s domestic technology services market, however, is expected to delay in

The Indian software market is expected to grow at a year-on-year (YoY) rate of 13.7 percent and touch $6.1 billion by the end of 2019, a report by the International Data Corporation (IDC) said on Thursday. According to the IDC’s “Asia Pacific Semiannual Software Tracker” (excluding Japan),

The European Commission is geared up to fine Google in a second anti-trust case of abusing its dominance via Android mobile operating system, that could lead up to $11 billion in penalty, the media reported. According to a report in The Financial Times on Wednesday, EU’s Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager is set to

Xiaomi Corp. aims to seek formal Hong Kong stock exchange approval on June 7 for an initial public offering that could raise about $10 billion, people with knowledge of the matter said. The Beijing-based smartphone maker hopes to price the share sale late next month if its application is

HIGHLIGHTS Billion Capture+ comes in two variants, priced at Rs. 10,999 & Rs. 12,999 The Flipkart phone was launched last week It features dual rear cameras and comes with free cloud storage Billion Capture+, the first smartphone from Flipkart-owned brand Billion, went on sale at 12am IST

HIGHLIGHTS Fingerprint sensor is quickly becoming a common feature in smartphones Next year, the vast majority of smartphones are expected to ship with it Chinese phone makers are bringing fingerprint sensors to low-cost phones Fingerprint scanners, a feature that was introduced only four years ago, will be

HIGHLIGHTS The offer was part of an informal dialogue between the two companies An offer to the tune of $30 billion continues to be on the table Snap went public in March this year Search engine giant Google had offered $30 billion (roughly Rs. 1,91,044 crores) to buy Snap – the

HIGHLIGHTS The flaw resides in Broadcom Wi-Fi chipsets It could potentially harm 1 billion Android and iOS smartphones Google and Apple have already rolled out a fix for the bug A Broadcom chip flaw found and demoed by Exodus Intelligence’s Nitay Artenstein exposed a potential critical threat

IF YOU HAVEN’T updated your iPhone or Android device lately, do it now. Until very recent patches, a bug in a little-examined Wi-Fi chip would have allowed a hacker to invisibly hack into any one of a billion devices. Yes, billion with a b. A vulnerability that pervasive is rare,