Considering buying Angry Birds maker Rovio, says Japan's Sega Sammy

The Wall Street Journal reported last week that Sega Sammy was nearing a deal to buy the Finnish firm for about $1 billion. Rovio has said it was in talks with Sega Sammy over a possible tender offer.

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Tesla Shanghai factory workers appeal to Elon Musk after being told of bonus cut

Posts from online users begun appearing on forums such as Baidu Tieba since late last week. Some took to Twitter, owned by Musk and blocked in China, to tweet to Elon Musk, his mother Maye Musk and Tesla's accounts.

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No payment gateway access for non-permissible online games; won’t forego margins for growth: TCS CEO-designate

As the online gaming industry and the government move closer towards implementing a self-regulatory mechanism for the sector, the Ministry of Information Technology (IT) is taking steps to prohibit non-permissible platforms which may be allowing illegal betting and gambling firms to operate.

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GPT-5 not in the works currently: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman

He also spoke about an open letter circulated among the tech community signed by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak and other signatories, that requested companies such as OpenAI pause development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems “more powerful than GPT-4.”

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RBI's norms on outsourcing IT services aimed at improving corporate governance, say experts

​​ The Reserve Bank of India has recently come out with detailed norms for the outsourcing of IT services by banks, NBFCs and other regulated financial sector entities to ensure that such arrangements do not undermine their responsibilities and obligations to customers.

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US Senators slam Tesla for 'willful disregard' of customers' privacy

Two US Senators have slammed Elon Musk-run Tesla for user privacy violation after reports surfaced that its employees shared video footage captured by its customers' vehicles of car crashes, road rage incidents and other potentially embarrassing clips.

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Uber signs pact to build Uber Zones across all AAI airports

Uber India and South Asia President Prabhjeet Singh said it has recorded nearly 100 per cent year-on-year growth in Airport trips in January and February this year and one in every 10 trips on the Uber platform is an airport trip.

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