While Spotify’s advertising was hit by the pandemic, it had little impact on subscriber growth, and may actually have contributed to pulling forward new signups, the music streaming platform said in a statement, adding that total monthly active users rose 27 percent to 345 million. Source: NDTV
Airtel swung to a quarterly profit as the Indian telecom firm added more subscribers and saw higher data usage during the coronavirus-led work-from-home trend. Source: NDTV
Samsung Galaxy F62 may soon be launched in India with a price tag of less than Rs. 25,000, as per a tipster. The phone is expected to come equipped with an Exynos SoC that has a Geekbench multi-core score of 2401, and outperforms the Qualcomm Snapdragon 765G SoC. Source: NDTV
Facebook announced that it is rolling out Messenger to Oculus headsets. The other person need not have a VR headset for you to chat with them. You can type out a message in VR, send pre-written messages, or use the voice-to-text feature. The feature will be rolled out starting this week. Source: NDTV
Elon Musk and Robinhood CEO engaged in a surprise chat on the invite-only social media app Clubhouse that has caused a scramble for invites to join the private app. The social media app that got 1.1 million downloads in just the last six days is valued at over $1 billion. Source: NDTV
Nokia 1.4 has been launched as the latest affordable smartphone by Nokia brand licensee HMD Global. The new Nokia phone is the successor to the Nokia 1.3 that was launched last year. The Nokia 1.4 comes with dual rear cameras as well as a 4,000mAh battery. Source: NDTV
Sony Raises Outlook Amid Home Entertainment Boom, but Struggles to Build More PlayStation 5 Consoles
Sony raised its full-year profit outlook by one-third, helped by pandemic-fuelled demand for games, movies, and other content, but said it was struggling to build enough PlayStation 5 consoles amid a global shortage of semiconductors. Source: NDTV
Government has directed Twitter to comply with its order to remove content and accounts related to farmer genocide hashtags and warned that the microblogging platform may face “penal action” for non-compliance of its order, according to sources. Source: NDTV
Adobe Acrobat is adding new tools for PDFs on its Web version. Tools that were only available on the desktop app can now be used directly from the Web. Users can add passwords to PDFs, merge multiple PDFs into a single file, and split a single PDF into multiple files through Acrobat on the web.
Microsoft OneDrive for Android has got a new home screen for personal as well as work/ school accounts. The OneDrive app update has also brought support for Samsung Motion Photos as well as 8K video playback from Samsung Galaxy S20 and Galaxy S21 series smartphones. Source: NDTV