While presenting the Union Budget 2022 this week, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharam announced the plans to set up an Animation, Visual Effects, Gaming, and Comics (AVGC) promotion task force. It is aimed to “recommend ways to realise” the ability to create jobs and “build domestic capacity” for fulfilling the growing demand in India and around
Britain’s competition regulator said on Friday it had fined Facebook-owner Meta 1.5 million pounds (roughly Rs. 11 crore) over fresh issues regarding its purchase of Giphy, a sanction that the US firm said it would accept. Britain’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has taken a tough line with major tech groups in recent years, investigating
Did you miss a session from GamesBeat’s latest event? Head over to the GamesBeat & Facebook Gaming Summit & GamesBeat Summit: Into the Metaverse 2 On Demand page here. Activision Blizzard‘s net bookings of $2.49 billion in the fourth quarter ended December 31 fell short of expectations on Wall Street, with the net bookings down
Apple’s upcoming iPhone SE 3 smartphone, which is tipped to be a successor to the company’s iPhone SE (2020) handset, is rumoured to launch at Apple’s Spring Launch event later this year. The company has reportedly imported three new iPhone models to India for testing, alongside two new iPad models, to be launched at an
Oppo Watch Free was launched in India today (Friday, February 4) alongside the Reno 7 5G and Reno 7 Pro 5G smartphones. The new Oppo smartwatch comes with 14 days of battery life and is equipped with an AMOLED display. It also carries fast charging support that is rated to deliver a day’s battery life
Activision Blizzard, which is being acquired by Microsoft for $68.7 billion (roughly Rs. 5,13,300 crore), missed market estimates for fourth-quarter adjusted sales on Thursday, as the pandemic-fuelled sales boost for its games such as Call of Duty showed signs of cooling. Videogame sales in the United States surged since the start of the pandemic, as people
Dakota Johnson could soon be suiting up to play her first superhero role as she is in talks to play Madame Web in Sony’s upcoming ‘Spider-Man’ spinoff. As per The Hollywood Reporter, the 32-year-old actor might play the title character in ‘Madame Web’, the Sony spinoff centred on the Spider-Man character. S.J. Clarkson is set
Did you miss a session from GamesBeat’s latest event? Head over to the GamesBeat & Facebook Gaming Summit & GamesBeat Summit: Into the Metaverse 2 On Demand page here. Call of Duty revenue was down on console and PC during the fourth quarter of last year, according to Activision Blizzard’s latest earnings report. Call of
The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday voted to approve a bill that would rein in app stores of companies they said exert too much market control, particularly Apple and Alphabet’s Google. The measure, sponsored by Democratic Senators Richard Blumenthal and Amy Klobuchar along with Republican Senator Marsha Blackburn, would bar big app stores from requiring
Netgear Nighthawk AX1800 (EAX20) and Nighthawk AX6000 (EAX80) Wi-Fi 6 mesh extenders were launched in India on Thursday. The new Wi-Fi extenders are designed to widen bandwidth using orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) technology. In terms of differences between the two, the Netgear Nighthawk AX1800 mesh extender comes as a new four-stream mesh extender
Japan’s Nintendo sold 18.95 million Switch units in the nine months to the end of December, the company said on Thursday, taking total sales past 100 million units and exceeding lifetime sales of the Wii console. Although the figure undershot the 24.1 million units sold in the corresponding period a year earlier, the milestone highlights
South Korea’s telecommunications regulator wants better compliance plans from Apple and Alphabet’s Google before finalising rules for a law banning app store operators from forcing software developers to use their payments systems, officials said on Thursday. South Korea passed the law, an amendment to the Telecommunication Business Act, last year. The rules, due to be
Did you miss a session from GamesBeat’s latest event? Head over to the GamesBeat & Facebook Gaming Summit & GamesBeat Summit: Into the Metaverse 2 On Demand page here. As part of its latest earnings report, Activision Blizzard revealed that some kind of new Warcraft content is coming to mobile later this year. Microsoft is
Sony Bravia A75K Smart TV with 4K OLED display has been unveiled. The smart TV comes with multiple video-related technologies and features such as Cognitive Processor XR, XR OLED Contrast Pro, XR Triluminos Pro, Auto Low Latency Mode, Acoustic Surface Audio, support for virtual assistants, and a smart remote. The Sony Bravia A75K will be
Twitter is reportedly working on a “Twitter Articles” feature that could allow users to post tweets with longer text. According to details shared by a reverse engineering expert on Twitter, the company may allow users to write posts beyond the existing 280-character limit on the platform. Currently, users can tweet longer text pieces using threads,
Motorola has been slowly adding budget 5G smartphones to its G series over the past year. We recently tested the Moto G51 and were happy with its performance. Motorola has now launched the Moto G71 5G, which is the first smartphone to sport the new Snapdragon 695 SoC in India, and also boasts of a
Alphabet announced earnings that beat analyst estimates and declared a 20-for-1 stock split in the form of a one-time special stock dividend. Bloomberg Intelligence’s Mandeep Singh has more on “Bloomberg Markets: The Close.”
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