Over 3,000 employees of Cognizant in the US, who work as content moderators for Facebook, have filed a class action complaint against the IT company and Facebook for allegedly causing psychological trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The complaint said the claims exceed $5 million in the aggregate. This is a fallout of Cognizant’s announcement […]

World’s largest factual entertainment company Discovery Communications, has entered into India’s video streaming landscape with the launch of ‘Discovery Plus’. Aimed at filling the need gap of premium factual entertainment, the app is available in both – subscription and ad-supported models. The app is first of its kind service from Discovery globally, where ‘Discovery Plus’ […]

By Zheping Huang Tencent Holdings picked up millions of new gamers during the global coronavirus outbreak — yet that surge in mobile play may be slowing as the world’s No. 2 economy goes back to work. The quest for entertainment among millions confined to home translated into a big boost for Tencent’s marquee games, Honor […]

As 60 million Italians face a coronavirus country-wide lockdown, many daily interactions among family, friends and colleagues have moved to messaging platforms such as Facebook’s WhatsApp and Microsoft’s Skype. Users in Italy are placing 20% more calls and sending 20% more messages on WhatsApp compared to a year ago, the company told Reuters. A spokeswoman […]

Axis Bank, Bajaj Finserv, ICICI Bank, IDFC FIRST Bank, HDFC Bank, Indusind Bank, Kotak Mahindra Bank and State Bank of India are in various stages of adopting the account aggregator (AA) framework, according to an industry body, ahead of a public rollout of the new technology product in May. Account aggregators are responsible for transferring, […]

Illustration: Rahul Awasthi As the number of confirmed cases of Covid-19 continues to rise in India, telemedicine or online consultation has become the first point of contact for many who suspect they’ve contracted the disease. Companies such as Practo, 1mg, Medlife, mfine and a few others are reporting a several-fold increase in online consultations for […]

Illustration: Rahul Awasthi Ecommerce platforms, retail chains and kirana stores reported a sharp surge in sales of staples, daily necessities and personal hygiene products in the past few days as panic buying took hold across India amid the fear of closures as Covid-19 cases rise. Deliveries have been delayed and some items such as sanitisers […]

The Pentagon is reconsidering its awarding of a major cloud computing contract to Microsoft after rival tech giant Amazon protested what it called a flawed bidding process. U.S. government lawyers said in a court filing this week that the Defense Department “wishes to reconsider its award decision” and take another look at how it evaluated […]

Coronavirus has presented a situation most geeks probably didn’t anticipate: what happens when even the disaster recovery sites and business continuity plans are rendered useless. You can fly resources to alternative locations. But how do you run a global business when flights are grounded and countries regulate who can come in? For the $190 billion […]

Even in a sluggish economy, startups helped spawn the gig economy that created jobs and new ways of working and sharing. However, the gig economy is seeing challenges because of the Covid-19 scare — especially as delivery personnel are highly exposed to the environment. In a “response note”, online grocer BigBasket said warehouse employees handling […]