Chip company Advanced Micro Devices’s $35 billion (roughly Rs. 260023.75 crore) all-stock deal for peer Xilinx is now expected to close in the first quarter of 2022, delayed from a previous target of end-2021, the companies said on Thursday. “While we had previously expected that we would secure all approvals by the end of 2021,
January 2022 may lack big OTT releases, but there’s still plenty of movies and TV series to keep you entertained. The Harry Potter reunion special, Return to Hogwarts, kicks off the year on Amazon Prime Video. Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, and many other Harry Potter cast and crew members will reunite to talk
South Korea’s SK Hynix said it had completed the first phase of its acquisition of Intel’s NAND flash memory chip business, after it received regulatory nods from eight countries including China. In exchange, SK Hynix will pay $7 billion (roughly Rs. 52213.07 crore) out of the deal’s total $9 billion (roughly Rs. 67131.09 crore) price
The South Korean government has moved to block the release of new play-to-earn (P2E) games and requested Google and Apple to remove existing games from their respective app stores. P2E games have tasted a great popularity recently as crypto adoption has improved over the past year, allowing players to win exchangeable tokens which they can
Food ordering from platforms including Swiggy and Zomato may become costlier soon as they will be required to collect and pay tax on behalf of all restaurants starting January 1, 2022. The new move comes as a result of the update issued by the finance ministry under which food aggregators are directed to pay five
LG Display has announced its next-generation OLED technology — dubbed OLED EX — which, according to the company, will increase brightness by up to 30 percent, boost picture accuracy and allow for smaller bezels in finished products. As per an announcement from the company, these improvements are due to two key changes. The first is
A US judge dismissed a lawsuit accusing Microsoft’s LinkedIn of inflating the number of people who watched video ads so the networking platform could overcharge hundreds of thousands of advertisers. In a decision on Monday, US Magistrate Judge Susan van Keulen said that while some LinkedIn statements may have been misleading, the plaintiffs failed to
TikTok is the most downloaded app worldwide with 656 million downloads in 2021, as per a new report. It is followed by other social media apps like Instagram, and Facebook (now Meta) as well as instant messaging platforms WhatsApp and Telegram. Meanwhile, when it comes to category wise distribution, Netflix is the most downloaded entertainment
Apple has issued unusual and significant stock bonuses to some engineers in an effort to retain talent. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports on “Bloomberg Markets: The Close.”
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Xbox Game Pass is set to add 31 day one titles in 2022, including games such as Total War: Warhammer 3, Stalker 2: Heart of Chernobyl, Redfall, Starfield, A Plague Tale: Requiem, Slime Rancher 2, Atomic Heart, Hello Neighbor 2, Weird West, and Sniper Elite 5. While the new list of 31 titles only includes
Vivo V2168A has been spotted on the website of Chinese certification authority TENAA, indicating that the company could be preparing for the launch of an upcoming smartphone. A new handset bearing the model number V2168A has been spotted on the website along with images and is tipped to feature an octa-core SoC paired with up
Battlegrounds Mobile India (BGMI) players are unable to login to the popular battle royale game, with issues first reported late on Wednesday, December 29. Developer Krafton has acknowledged that some users are experiencing a “login failed” error and is working on resolving the issue. However, the issue could be affecting only a subset of BGMI
Apple has issued unusual and significant stock bonuses to some engineers in an effort to retain talent, looking to stave off defections to tech rivals such as Facebook owner Meta Platforms. Last week, the company informed some engineers in silicon design, hardware, and select software and operations groups of the out-of-cycle bonuses, which are being
A good, productivity-focused monitor will go a long way in improving your efficiency while working, but it isn’t often that we find a monitor that is equally geared for life after work hours. Among the world’s leading names when it comes to monitors is Taiwan-based BenQ, and one of the company’s newest models in India
PUBG: New State has received an update to its anti-cheat system, according to publisher Krafton. The new update promises stronger measures towards abusive players and cheaters in the popular multiplayer and battle royale game. The updated anti-cheat system went live on PUBG: New State on Tuesday, and will target gamers who play alongside cheaters in
iQoo 9 series, which is rumoured to include the vanilla iQoo 9 and iQoo 9 Pro smartphones, will be powered by Qualcomm’s latest flagship Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 SoC. The Vivo sub-brand also confirmed that the smartphones will feature a VC three-dimensional heat dissipation system that will have a soaking plate with an area of
Instagram Head Adam Mosseri on Tuesday announced the photo-sharing app’s key priorities for 2022, which include doubling down on videos. He highlighted videos, messaging, transparency, and creators as the four key areas on which the Meta-owned platform will be focusing on in the coming year. The Instagram head also talked about major updates that landed