INDIAN MINISTRY TO ESTABLISH A QUANTUM COMPUTING APPLICATIONS LAB

HIGHLIGHTS

• MeitY has plans to set up a quantum computing applications lab in India.
• The quantum computing applications lab will be powered by AWS.

Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) in India is planning to est...

TWITTER SUSPENDS 70,000 QAnon ACCOUNTS AFTER JAN 6. US CAPITOL VIOLENCE

Highlights

• Twitter said that this action has been taken in the wake of violent events that took place last week in Washington, where Trump supporters stormed the Capitol Hill

• Earlier on Monday, Amazon had also said that it was taking down some QAnon products from...

AMAZON WILL TAKE DOWN FEW QANON PRODUCTS FROM ITS WEBSITE

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• Amazon said it was taking efforts to take down some QAnon products from its online marketplace, citing policies that restrict offensive items or other inappropriate content

• Similarly tech company Apple dropped Parler from its App Store, while the cloud...

CHINA’S BAIDU AND GEELY’S MERGER TO ROLLOUT WITH SMART CARS

• Baidu will hone in with smart driving dynamics while Geely will offer design and manufacturing saliency.
• Geely is a pioneer in china’s automobile industry, and also is proprietor of Volvo and owns a stake in Mercedes-Benz owner Daimler.

The two companies...

AFTER GOOGLE, APPLE & AMAZON TOO TAKE DOWN PARLER FROM THEIR SERVICES

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• Parker was removed from their stores as the social media network was among those used to organize riots at the US Capitol

• While tech company Apple dropped Parler from its App Store, the cloud unit of Amazon decided to stop hosting it from Sunday night<...

NOT JEFF BEZOS, BUT ELON MUSK IS NOW THE RICHEST MAN ON PLANET

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• Report states thanks to the surge in Tesla shares on Thursday, Musk's net worth went up to over $188.5 billion, which is $1.5 billion more than Bezos

• In last one year, Musk's networth skyrocketed from $27 billion to $188.5 billion, courtesy of ...

AMAZON PRIME VIDEO TO DONATE 1 MILLION EUROS TO ITALIAN COVID-19 FUND FOR SUPPORTING ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY

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• The Amazon Prime Video and Amazon Studios have announced that it will be donating 1 million euros to the covid-19 fund Italy
• The fund is also open for the donations from the other companies and was produced for aiding those who have been s...

EVERYTHING ABOUT AMAZON PHARMACY, THE NEWEST MEDICATIONS ORDERING SERVICE IN THE MARKET

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• With the help of a secure pharmacy profile, the customers will be able to manage prescriptions, add their insurance information and select their favorite payment options in this newly launched Amazon Pharmacy

• Amazon had acquired the prescription medici...

APPLE ONE: NEWEST STREAMING PLATFORM ON THE BLOCK

Highlights

• With Apple One, Apple directly aims to take on Amazon Prime along with Netflix, Disney Plus and other streaming platforms

• Apple arrives with three plans, individual, family and premier, and each plan offers some subset or combination of Apple Music, Ap...

US AMAZON USERS WILL BE PAID FOR SHARING PURCHASE RECEIPTS FROM NON-AMAZON STORES

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• Amazon has announced a new programme that will pay participants for sharing their purchase receipts from non-Amazon stores and for taking short surveys

• Amazon has said that it will immediately delete any sensitive information, such as prescription info...

OVER 3,000 AMAZON US EMPLOYEES DEMAND ELECTION DAY HOLIDAY

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• According to Amazon Employees for Climate Justice, over 3,000 Amazon U.S. employees have signed a petition in order to get a holiday for voting in the upcoming November 3 US election

• Several large firms including likes of Walmart, Coca-Cola, Twitter, A...

CARNIVAL ROW SEASON 2 SHOOTING COMPLETE IN CZECH REPUBLIC

HIGHLIGHTS

• The first season of Carnival Row is streaming online now.
• The shooting of second season started in post-COVID Czech Republic.
• The shooting has wrapped up successfully.
• Carnival Row has Orlando Bloom and Cara Delevingne...

U.S.: NEARLY 20,000 AMAZON WORKERS TEST COVID POSITIVE

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• As per its analysis, the rate of infection among 1.4 million workers at Amazon and its Whole Foods subsidiary was 42 percent lower than rate expected based on the broader US population said Amazon

• World’s biggest e-commerce company owned by world...

DISNEY PLUS TO LAUNCH GROUPWATCH FEATURE FOR ALL U.S. SUBSCRIBERS

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• GroupWatch was previously tested in Canada and will be available for web, mobile, smart TVs, and connected TV devices including Amazon Fire TV users and Roku

• Disney Plus' GroupWatch is on similar lines of Amazon Prime Video’s watch party func...

AMAZON ONE: AMAZON’S NEW CONTACTLESS PAYMENT TECHNOLOGY

Highlights

• The new contactless Amazon One service scans the palms of  customers in order to assign its data to a credit card that will be used for payments

• Post initial set up, the Amazon One technology will let customers enter the Amazon Go stores and shop ...

WITH AZURE ORBITAL, MICROSOFT OFFERS A SERVICE THAT CONNECTS SATELLITES TO CLOUD

Highlights

• Initially Azure Orbital will start in a private preview and cater to a selected group of Microsoft customers

• At present, Microsoft and Amazon are the two largest providers of cloud infrastructure, with data centers in remotest of the places and capable...

U.S. STOCKS VOLATILE, TECH STOCKS AMONG TOP LAGGARDS

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• The Dow Jones Industrial Average index slumped 312.99 points or 1.12 percent to 27,588.99, while the S&P 500 index fell 47.64 points to 3,309

• After hitting record highs, big tech stocks like Facebook, Amazon and Apple fell sharply in recent session...

AMAZON’S FIRST WIND PROJECT IS NOW ONLINE IN EUROPE

Highlights:

• The first operational wind farm of Amazon in Europe is now online in Sweden
• The 91 MW Backhammar project in Sweden will be powering the AWS data centres of Amazon and also the expanding retail business

The first operation...

AROUND $18.8 MILLION TO BE RETURNED BY AMAZON’S JAPAN UNIT TO ITS SUPPLIERS

Highlights –

• Around $18.8 million to be returned by Amazon’s Japan unit to its suppliers.
• The company has pledged to do the above as part of their reforms submitted to JFTC.
• Amazon Japan is exempted from penalties.
• T...

U.S. STOCKS START NEGATIVE: Dow AT 27,740, NASDAQ HOVERING AROUND 11,000

Highlights

• The Dow Jones industrial average index is trading at 27,740 and the S&P 500 index is at  3,365 while the Nasdaq composite index is 11,018

• The stocks of Amazon, Alphabet and Facebook plunged 3.7, 3.3 and 3 percent respectively on Tuesday