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Big-tech companies should share revenue with digital news publishers: I&B Secretary

​In a message sent to the Digital News Publishers Association (DNPA) conference on Friday, Apurva Chandra said Australia, Canada, France and European Union have already taken the initiative through their legislatures and strengthened their competition commissions to ensure a fair split of revenue among the creators of news content and the aggregators.

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'Devastated, shocked': sacked Google employees left distraught as layoffs impact 12,000

Google parent Alphabet on January 20 announced that it plans to cut about 12,000 jobs or 6% of its global workforce.

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Elon Musk says Twitter has a headcount of about 2,300

Twitter Inc has about 2,300 active employees, Elon Musk said in a Tweet on Saturday.

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Synthetic biology startup D-Nome raises $1.5 million in funding from Ankur Capital, Campus Fund

D-Nome's focus is to build rapid point-of-care diagnostics for human infectious diseases and other applications using genomics and synthetic biology

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Another crypto company goes bust

One of the world’s largest crypto lenders, Genesis froze withdrawals in November after the spectacular collapse of FTX.

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Amazon invests Rs 400 crore in India logistics arm

The fund infusion comes at a time when Amazon is increasing its seller base as well as product catalogue on the platform from sellers.

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Amazon to launch dedicated cargo fleet in India

Amazon’s signature Prime Air will exclusively transport packages for the company and carry the familiar light blue ‘smile’ logo on the aircraft fuselage. Likely to be launched by the end of this month, the fleet will be operated by QuikJet, a Bengaluru-based cargo airline which is a joint venture between Cyrus Guzder of supply chain company AFL and Ireland-based ASL Aviation Group.

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Yellow.ai deploys 30% of global generative AI bots domestically

While markets like the US are mostly using GenAI for customer support in a bid to cut costs, India Inc. is using them as an opportunity to g...