December 3, 2023
Gaming is a serious business; everyone wants a share of the growing pie. 2023 saw some old stalwarts trying to make inroads with gamers whereas a few new faces popped up on the block. The battle of screen time is just getting fiercer than ever. Netflix, Apple and YouTube have recently levelled up their game
READ MOREWomen are the main targets of online hate, including abusive language, harassment and incitement to sexual violence, a European Union report said on Wednesday. This should encourage the EU and social media platforms to pay close attention to protected characteristics such as gender and ethnicity when moderating content, the EU’s Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA)
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As happens every year, the festive season threw up a lot of online shopping deals and led to a significant rise in online shopping and online transactions. Bengaluru-based consultancy RedSeer had predicted early in October that virtual shoppers would spend a record $11 billion during the month to mid-November, nearly 20% more than last year.
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Deep discounts on everything from beauty products and toys to electronics during the Thanksgiving weekend enticed U.S. shoppers to splurge about $38 billion online, signaling a strong holiday shopping season even as economic uncertainty swirled. Online consumer spending jumped 7.8% during Cyber Week, or the five days from Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday, according to data
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Consumers are scouring the internet for online deals as they begin to coff the five-day post-Thanksgiving shopping bonanza with Cyber Monday. Even though e-commerce is now part and parcel of our everyday lives and much of the holiday shopping season, Cyber Monday — a term coined back in 2005 by the National Retail Federation —
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Jess Baker, a UK business psychologist and author, says that anyone considering a job share with someone they do not previously know should really find out if they have compatible personalities. “I’d strongly recommend you each complete a personality profiling tool, to increase your level of self-awareness of psychological characteristics, like how you each cope
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Electronics mogul Dick Smith has taken aim at Facebook for failing to stop deepfake videos using his identity in scam advertisements. One video, which appears to be a segment from Nine’s ‘A Current Affair’, features interviews with Smith, Treasurer Jim Chalmers and billionaires Andrew Forrest and Gina Rinehart. The entrepreneur has been trying for two
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Black Friday generated a record $9.8 billion in US online sales, up 7.5% from a year ago. According to Adobe Analytics, mobile shopping accounted for $5.3 billion in online sales.The best-selling categories on Black Friday were electronics such as smartwatches and televisions, as well as toys and gaming, reports CNBC. Elevate Your Tech Prowess with
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Online news aggregator InShorts saw its losses balloon by over a third during the year ended March 2023 to Rs 309.75 crore, from Rs 231.87 crore in FY22, as it spent significantly more during the period. The company saw its operating revenue rise 8.7% year-on-year during FY23. The Noida-based company’s revenue from operations rose to
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The group of ministers (GoM) formed to deliberate on issues related to regulating online gaming is likely to hold its first meeting on December 15, said people with knowledge of the matter. While the GoM has conducted “a couple of informal meetings” so far, the first official meeting is likely to set the tone for
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