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29 Dec 2020
OnePlus 9 appears in live images; design and specifications confirmed
OnePlus is expected to launch its flagship 9 series of smartphones in March 2021. In the latest development, a prototype of the vanilla model has been spotted on eBay, revealing its design aspects and key specifications.
29 Sep 2020
NewsBytes Briefing: Microsoft 365 suffered an outage, and more
Last night, Microsoft 365 suffered a major outage due to an internal change and left essential web services down for hours, including Microsoft Office 365, Teams, and Outlook.
08 Apr 2020
#CoronavirusOutbreak: Buttler's 2019 World Cup shirt raises £65,000
England wicket-keeper batsman Jos Buttler has raised more than £65,000 to help fight the coronavirus by auctioning off his ICC World Cup 2019 final shirt.
15 Jan 2020
Amazon boss Jeff Bezos visits India as traders plan protest
The world's richest man and Amazon Inc. boss, Jeff Bezos is in India for a three-day visit.
23 Nov 2019
2019 Black Friday sales: Here's how to shop from India
As we all know it, Black Friday is the biggest shopping day of the year in the US. The mega sale event is celebrated one day after Thanksgiving and for 2019, it will take place on November 29.
01 Nov 2019
A Singaporean company bought (unicorn) ShopClues for peanuts
ShopClues, a once-popular marketplace in India's online shopping space, has been acquired by Singapore-based e-commerce platform Qoo10 in an all-stock deal.
12 Oct 2019
Why eBay, Mastercard, Visa ditched Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency project
When Facebook announced Libra in June, it had promised a digital token for personal and store payments.
27 Sep 2019
A humongous 15-ton battle robot is on sale on eBay
Are you up for buying a humongous battle robot?
21 Aug 2019
Couple takes sand from Italy beach, faces jail for 'stealing'
If you've ever been to a beach, you might have felt the impulse to pick up seashells, or fill up a bottle with sand to take home.
04 Jul 2019
This man is building a 3D-printed Lamborghini Aventador at home
A physicist is building a full-scale model of Lamborghini Aventador using 3D-printing.
03 Jun 2019
Wanna have lunch with Warren Buffett? It costs Rs. 31cr
It's a no-brainer that getting lunch with Warren Buffet is not easy-peasy. After all, he's the third-richest person in the world.
18 May 2019
Most cyber-attack vulnerable Indian cities: Is yours on the list?
Two years ago, the world witnessed WannaCry, one of the most devastating cyberattacks that compromised hundreds of thousands of computers in a few hours.
20 Apr 2019
68-million-year-old baby T-rex listed on eBay, scientists infuriated
Fossils are the gift of nature, an opportunity to imagine living creatures as they were before the evolution of the human kind.
19 Apr 2019
29-year-old man in relationship with robot, plans to marry it
Love for machines is real, but sometimes it could go up to a point where things may seem hard to believe.
08 Mar 2019
Authorities seize family's dog over unpaid taxes, sell it online
Heard of "legal" dog tax? If not, this is news for you.
05 Feb 2019
14-year-old boy builds online toy empire, earns Rs. 14L/year
E-commerce websites have given rise to many success stories of entrepreneurs, irrespective of their age and gender.
30 Nov 2018
Vibrator free with boots? Woman's re-selling plan goes horribly wrong
Don't we all love unintentional surprise gifts? A Rs. 100 note from your jeans' backpocket, or free dessert from a restaurant.
22 Nov 2018
I-T Dept issues notices to Sachin, Binny Bansal over Flipkart-Walmart-deal
Flipkart founders Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal have been issued notices by the Income Tax Department, asking them to disclose their total earnings arising out of Walmart-Flipkart deal.
09 Oct 2018
Man puts girlfriend on sale, bid reaches Rs. 68 lakh
What do you do when you're angry with your partner? You ignore them, don't talk to them or worse, dump them. But not Dale Leeks.
05 Oct 2018
Stolen Facebook logins selling on dark web for just $3
A number of Facebook accounts compromised in the recent data breach have been spotted on the dark web, selling for just $3 (Rs. 220).
31 Aug 2018
5 weirdest things ever sold on eBay
While eBay was primarily an e-commerce platform in India, the company's global reputation stems from it being one of the best auction sites in the world.
30 Aug 2018
Here's your chance to own iPhone's 1st Generation Prototype
If you're an Apple fan and want to own a piece of Apple history, there's news for you.
08 Aug 2018
Workplace messaging service Slack is raising $400mn in new round
On the back of acquiring its rivals just a couple of weeks back, workplace messaging service Slack is reportedly raising more funding, this time around $400mn.
24 Jul 2018
#EndOfAnEra: Flipkart to shutdown eBay.in in August
According to ToI, Flipkart is all set to shutdown one of India's oldest e-commerce sites, eBay.in, marking the end of an era.
11 Jul 2018
Football: US hedge fund Elliott takes over AC Milan
7-time European champions AC Milan have new owners as US hedge fund Elliott Management made an announcement of taking over the Italian club.
01 Mar 2018
Celebrating Justin Bieber on his 24th birthday
With 105.29 million followers, Justin Bieber is the second most-followed person on Twitter worldwide, after Katy Perry's 108.37 million.
28 Jan 2018
Paytm to become a $10bn start-up after secondary share sale
The valuation of home-grown digital payments giant Paytm, owned by Noida-based One97 Communications, is likely to jump to $10bn after some existing and former employees sell a part of their shares to new investors, including Canada-based Discovery Capital. Information about other investors isn't available yet.
05 Dec 2017
UK: Vladimir Putin calendars sold out, but who's buying them?
Russian media outlets have claimed that calendars featuring President Vladimir Putin's photographs in various poses have reportedly been selling like hot cakes in the UK.
28 Oct 2017
iPhone X sold out within minutes: A redemption for Apple?
Amid dwindling sales and falling stocks, Apple might have hit gold with its latest offering: the new iPhone X, costing around Rs. 1L, was sold out within minutes of opening pre-orders.
16 Oct 2017
Flipkart in talks to pick up stake in BookMyShow
E-commerce giant Flipkart is reportedly in talks to pick up a significant stake in online ticketing platform BookMyShow to build out its services and transaction offering.
11 Oct 2017
A court order can't stop Delhi from celebrating Diwali
Despite the ban on firecrackers in Delhi, you can still procure some legally. It won't be easy though: you will have to undertake a six-eight hour journey costing few thousands.
03 Oct 2017
Flipkart: $100mn ESOP repurchase plan; Diwali bonanza for employees
As many as 6,000 current/former employees of India's homegrown e-commerce giant Flipkart are in for a Diwali bonanza.
18 Sep 2017
Amazon, Flipkart, Paytm Mall festival sales may cross Rs. 10,000cr
Indian e-commerce firms are ready to battle it out this festive season with big discounts.
12 Sep 2017
iPhone, a concept that was supposed to fail
When the iPhone first came out, several tech pundits vehemently brushed it aside saying that it will never work. Well, to put it across bluntly, it did.
30 Aug 2017
The rise of Iranian-Americans in the tech industry
The appointment of long time Expedia CEO Dara Khosrowshahi as the new Uber CEO underscores a larger phenomena happening in America for some time now - the rise of Iranian-Americans in the tech industry.
10 Aug 2017
SoftBank buys stake in Flipkart, becomes its largest shareholder
Flipkart just announced that it has received a mix of primary and secondary capital from the SoftBank Vision Fund.
01 Aug 2017
eBay closes sale of India arm to Flipkart
Four months after announcement of the sale, Flipkart has closed the acquisition of eBay's India arm.
18 Jul 2017
Google Glass is back, in a new overhauled avatar
Proving us all wrong, Google Glass is alive and well. Although it didn't live up to the earlier hype of being the portable computer that the company marketed it to be, it's doing fabulously in its new role.
04 Jul 2017
Apple, Google, Microsoft stocks fell prey to a data glitch
Prices of several big-wig stocks like Apple, Google and Microsoft listed on NASDAQ appeared to have gone through an unprecedented spike or plummet after the market closed on Monday.
29 Jun 2017
iPhone turns 10, let's take out the time machine
When the iPhone first came out, several tech pundits vehemently brushed it aside saying that it will never work. Well, to put it across bluntly, it did.
