Amazon on Monday announced it has created more than 22,000 seasonal employment positions across its India network this festive season. The e-commerce giant said the employment positions have been created at its fulfilment centres, sortation centres, delivery stations and customer service sites. These positions have been created in Mumbai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Chennai, Bengaluru, Ahmedabad and many other cities across the country, it said in a statement in Mumbai. “In our effort to provide a seamless shopping experience, we are excited to announce that we are enhancing our teams significantly with two times the number of associates working in the Amazon fulfilment…
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Following the launch of add-ins for Outlook on iOS, Microsoft is rolling them out for Android customers with Outlook.com and Office 365 commercial email accounts. The launch will bring several add-ins from iOS to Android including Evernote, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Microsoft Translator, Nimble, OnePlaceMail, Outlook Customer Manager, Smartsheet and Trello, Engadget reported on Monday. The company will also launch new add-ins for Outlook such as Wrike, JIRA, MeisterTask, Gfycat and MojiLala across web, Windows, Mac, iOS and Android platforms. “Wrike, JIRA and MeisterTask are software made for teams which make responding to work emails faster and easier on the go,” the report added. Gfycat and MojiLala will…
Facebook would really like you to upload videos on its social network. So much so that instead of taking down videos that have unauthorised content from artists, the company is reportedly paying music labels and other right holders a lot of money to turn a blind eye to it. Under the law, right holders of videos must ask Facebook to take down copyright infringing material. But why take it to court, when you can settle it outside, or so is the thinking of right holders and Facebook, according to Bloomberg. The publication claims that Facebook is paying hundreds of millions of dollars to avoid…
Figures Facebook gives advertisers about its potential reach differ from US census data, an investment analyst said on Tuesday, renewing questions about how tech companies verify the value of their digital marketing space. Facebook, Alphabet Inc’s Google and other Internet companies have faced persistent scrutiny from advertisers about how many people watch ads online and how to measure their views. Facebook’s ad-buying website tells advertisers that the world’s largest social network has a potential reach of 41 million 18 to 24 year olds in the United States, whereas US census data shows that last year there were 31 million people living in the country…
Samsung said on Tuesday it will be bringing Bixby, its virtual assistant, to India later this month, as the company announced the availability of the Galaxy Note 8smartphone. The arrival of Bixby in India further intensifies the battle for AI-powered digital assistants Google’s Assistant, Apple’s Siri, Microsoft’s Cortana, and Amazon’s Alexa, which is also set to be launched in the country later this year. The South Korean electronics company, which assumes the tentpole position among smartphone makers by both volume and brand value, said it had put months of rigorous efforts at its Research and Development centres in Bengaluru to understand and adapt to Indian dialects and contexts. Samsung…
Children cannot be expected to walk three or more kilometres to attend school, the Supreme Court has said. It said to make the right of education meaningful, efforts should be made to have upper primary schools in such a manner that no children has to walk such a distance only to attend schools. The court was dealing with a matter in which permission granted to a school to upgrade itself was opposed by a nearby school in Kerala, which has the highest literacy rate in the country. A bench of Justices Madan B Lokur and Deepak Gupta noted that students…
S. Anitha, who has reportedly committed suicide recently, had failed to make it through NEET (National Entrance-cum-Eligibility Test), an exam now taken nationally to decide who can study medicine and who can’t. NEET is conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE). Anitha who had scored exceptionally well in her Class XII exam of Tamil Nadu (TN) Board, failed to perform well in NEET. The state government had tried to resist NEET, and for a year it succeeded in providing TN students an exemption from NEET. Following Anitha’s death, protests against NEET have been held in Chennai. Anitha, a daily-wage…
The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) on Monday declared the final results of Indian engineering service (IES) examination 2017 on its official website. Candidates can check their results by clicking here. The final list, in order of merit, of candidates recommended by the commission for appointment to various services/posts in the ministries/departments concerned has been made on the basis of results of the mains exam held in May and the interviews for personality test held in July-September 2017. The number of candidates recommended for appointment under different disciplines is 500. The appointments will be made in accordance with the extant rules…
Finnish mobile games and animation studio Rovio Entertainment Ltd said on Tuesday that it was planning an initial public offering (IPO) and listing of its shares in Helsinki in a long-awaited move aimed to boost growth. The maker of the Angry Birds hit games and 3D movie said the IPO would consist of share sales by its biggest shareholders and a share issue of about EUR 30 million ($35.71 million). “We are very pleased with the company’s strong performance in recent years… The contemplated IPO and listing will offer new shareholders an opportunity to participate in Rovio’s success,” Chairman Mika Ihamuotila said…
Destiny 2 was launched on Wednesday for the PS4 and Xbox One. The sequel to 2014’s original online-only sci-fi shooter game brings back some of the characters including Tess Everis and her Eververse Trading Company. This means that Destiny 2 brings back the microtransaction store where players can purchase Bright Engrams for rare items. Fans of the original Destiny will know how the Eververse works. Players will find Tess’ business set up under a tent at The Farm after the game’s third mission, Spark. The store lets players purchase Silver from their console’s store. Bright Engrams, which contain special loot, can be…