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Veetla Vishesham is set to premiere July 15 on Zee5, nearly a month after it opened in cinemas on June 17. It is the Tamil remake of the Ayushmann Khurrana-led Hindi comedy drama Badhaai Ho. The streaming platform made the official announcement with a tweet that read: “#VeetlaVishesham is premiering on #Zee5 Premium this July

For years they tiptoed around each other but now the groups led by billionaires Mukesh Ambani and Gautam Adani will for the first time be in direct competition when they later this month participate in the auction of airwaves capable of providing fifth generation or 5G telecom services. But the rivalry between the two politically

The information technology services sector will see a sharp fall in revenue growth to 12-13 percent in FY23 from 19 percent in FY22, ratings agency Crisil said on Thursday. However, the current depreciation in the rupee, strong demand for new age technologies like artificial intelligence, cloud computing and Internet of Things will help the over

Not only big companies such as Samsung, LG and Kia, but some newly-born South Korean start-ups like PUBG maker Krafton will be eager to invest in India and cooperate with Indian companies, Ambassador of South Korea to India Chang Jae-bok said on Thursday. The Ambassador, who is in the city, today led a high-level delegation

Echo has reportedly added Charlie Cox and Vincent D’Onofrio, who reprise their respective Marvel roles as Daredevil and Kingpin, on the Alaqua Cox-led series about the titular superhero/ Maya Lopez, who first appeared on Hawkeye. There’s no word on what they will be doing on the show, nor is anything known about how long we’ll

India’s largest IT services firm Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) on Friday reported a 5.2 percent year-on-year rise in consolidated net profit to Rs. 9,478 crore for the first quarter ended June 30. The consolidated revenue from operations increased 16.2 percent year-on-year to Rs. 52,758 crore in the first quarter of FY23. TCS has declared an

The most important concern for any individual or a huge datacentre holding thousands of gigabytes of data is security. With the advancement of technology, many security tools are used by companies to keep their data secure. But one security expert has found a unique “leak” in one of the datacentres, which allowed him to gain

EU antitrust regulators are investigating the video licensing policy of the Alliance for Open Media (AOM), whose members include Alphabet unit Google, Amazon, Apple and Meta, the European Commission said on Thursday. The investigation is the latest to hit the tech industry, which will be subject to tough new rules in Europe next year that

Comicstaan season 3 trailer is out. On Thursday, Amazon Prime Video shared a nearly two-and-a-half-minute long trailer for the third season of its comedy reality show Comicstaan. The Comicstaan season 3 trailer introduces us to the eight contestants, as they try their level best to be funny. Some of the gags are genuinely enjoyable. In

A former Facebook content screener says he was fired for raising alarms about a new company protocol allowing employees to resurrect data that users deleted. Brennan Lawson sued Meta, Facebook’s parent, Tuesday in California claiming he was informed about the new protocol during a staff meeting in late 2018 and immediately questioned its legality. Soon

Capital markets regulator SEBI has asked the KYC Registration Agencies (KRAs) to report all cyber attacks, threats and breaches experienced by them within six hours of detecting such incidents. The incident will also be reported to the Indian Computer Emergency Response team (CERT-In) in accordance with the guidelines issued by CERT-In from time to time,

The US Senate Intelligence Committee chair and top Republican have called on the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate social media app TikTok and Chinese parent ByteDance due to “repeated misrepresentations” over its handling of US data. The request on Tuesday from Senator Mark Warner, a Democrat, and Republican Marco Rubio followed a Buzzfeed report

EU lawmakers gave the thumbs up on Tuesday to landmark rules to rein in the power of tech giants such as Google, Amazon, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft, but enforcing them could be an issue due to regulators’ limited resources. In addition to the rules known as the Digital Markets Act (DMA), lawmakers also approved the

Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched multiple digital portals at the ongoing Digital India Week 2022 including a single sign-in portal Meri Pehchaan, a website IndiaStack.Global, MyScheme, on Monday.The launch came during the ongoing Digital India Week 2022 in Gandhinagar. He highlighted that the masses had to hustle from pin to pole for basic registrations and

Edtech firm Byju’s said on Monday that it has completed payment that was due for the acquisition of Aakash Educational Service and received majority of $800 million (roughly Rs. 6,300 crores) fund which it announced in March. The company is estimated to have acquired Aakash Educational Services Limited for around $950 million (roughly Rs. 7,500

US online retail giant Amazon has made it easier for users to cancel their subscriptions to its fast shipping club Prime with just two clicks, following complaints from consumer groups, the European Commission said on Friday. European Consumer Organisation (BEUC), the Norwegian Consumer Council and the Transatlantic Consumer Dialogue took their grievances to the EU

Cybersecurity experts say the California Department of Justice apparently failed to follow basic security procedures on its website, exposing the personal information of potentially hundreds of thousands of gun owners. The website was designed to only show general data about the number and location of concealed carry gun permits, broken down by year and county.

A Dutch university that fell victim to a massive ransomware attack has partly received back its stolen money… which in the meantime more than doubled in value, a news report said on Saturday. The southern Maastricht University in 2019 was hit by a large cyberattack in which criminals used ransomware, a type of malicious software

The Delhi government plans to engage with various e-commerce firms and food delivery platforms, including Zomato, Swiggy, Amazon and Flipkart, for effective implementation of the ban on single-use plastic (SUP) items in the capital, officials said on Saturday. These firms have a huge business in Delhi and it has only increased after the Covid pandemic, they

Disney+ Hotstar has announced a list of 34 titles that will be released on its platform in July 2022. In big names, we have Karan Johar returning with the seventh season of his long-running talk show Koffee with Karan, now dubbed as “Hotstar Specials”. Koffee with Karan season 7 starts July 7 on Disney+ Hotstar.

The government has warned ed-tech companies against unfair trade practices in India. In a meeting with industry body India Edtech Consortium (IEC), Consumer Affairs Secretary said that stringent guidelines would need to be worked out for ensuring transparency if self regulation does not curb the unfair trade practices in the sector. The meeting was attended