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indica News Bureau- Gilead ups its donation of the Covid-19 drug remdesivir for U.S. hospitals, but there’s no clarity on how they’ll be allocated. The US federal government will be getting additional 300,000 plus doses of the experimental COVID-19 therapy ‘Remdesivir’ Remdesivir is an antiviral medication developed by Northern California based biopharmaceutical […]
indica News Bureau- Introducing ‘Shops’, social media giant Facebook in Tuesday reached out to struggling businesses during the pandemic to equip them with tools to run their businesses on the social media platform and Instagram. In near future, Facebook also plans to weave in the online business into Messenger and WhatsApp chat applications. Facebook Inc […]
indica News Bureau- Expressing her disappointment over HEROES Act passed by the Congress during the COVID-19 crisis, Pramila Jayapal, a member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Washington state’s 7th District, said that though the act has several important provisions, it fails to match the true scale of the devastating coronavirus crisis. Jayapal, D-Seattle, […]
indica News Bureau- As American and European retailers are filing for bankruptcies due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Indian creditors who have unsecured outstanding dues with the companies are feeling the pressure. It is estimated that the Indian creditors have outstanding dues in excess of $50 million. Even leading retailers like J C Penney, J […]
IANS- The current pandemic has compelled several Indian organisations, that were still contemplating a move to the Cloud, to explore more and let leading Cloud providers manage data centres for them, help shun legacy infrastructure and adopt digital ways of remote working, according to a top Oracle executive. Now more than ever, organizations are realising […]
IANS- Amazon has filed a lawsuit against an international ring in Washington State and India that developed a tech support scheme to con people via fake Amazon apps who were looking to set up newly-bought Alexa-enabled Echo smart speakers at home, charging $150 for device protection plans. Amazon alleged that the scam was being run […]
Arul Louis – An Indian-origin engineer has been charged by prosecutors with making fraudulent applications for over $10 million loans under the US COVID-19 relief program. Shashank Rai “fraudulently pursued millions of dollars in loans intended for legitimate small businesses suffering the economic hardships of the COVID-19 pandemic”, Assistant Attorney General Brian Benczkowski said on […]
IANS- Due to the COVID-19 induced global economic recession, worldwide IT spending is projected to total $3.4 trillion in 2020, a decline of 8 percent from 2019, according to a forecast by Gartner on Wednesday. In October 2019, months before the outbreak of COVID-19, Gartner predicted that global IT spending was expected to rebound in […]
indica News Bureau- India continues to be the second-highest requestor for user data from Facebook, according to its bi-annual Transparency Report, which revealed government requests for user data in the second half of 2019. The Indian government was second to the US once again in requesting Facebook for access to users data in the last […]
IANS- As disinformation related to COVID-19 is spreading faster than the virus itself, the microblogging platform Twitter feels that its work has never been more critical and its service has never been in higher demand than ever before globally, including in India. The power of a uniquely open service during a public health emergency is […]
