Twitter’s new CEO Parag Agrawal joins club of India-born US tech captains
Satya Nadella of Microsoft, Shantanu Narayen of Adobe, and Sundar Pichai of Alphabet are among the highest-profile leaders of US firms of Indian origin.
3 things new CEO Parag Agrawal should do to spark a turnaround for Twitter
It’s possible Agrawal has the skills to grow the platform to expand beyond its core users. He must fundamentally change the way the company does product development.
Who is Parag Agrawal, IIT-Bombay & Stanford graduate taking over as Twitter CEO
Agrawal, the youngest person to run a company in the S&P 500, is still a relative unknown who has spent no time in the limelight at the controversial social media company.
Jack Dorsey steps down as Twitter CEO, IIT alum Parag Agrawal picked successor
Dorsey said he decided to leave the company as Twitter is 'ready to move on from its founders'. He had earlier stepped down as CEO of Twitter in 2008, but returned in 2015.
From ‘I had idli’ to political megaphone, how tiny Twitter punches above its weight in India
Twitter has far less reach than WhatsApp or even Facebook, so why do political parties think it’s so important?
Live in Bengaluru & lost your dog? New app could help with facial recognition, online network
Released on 3 November, dog lovers can use this facial recognition app to find missing pets. The app already has over 10,000 downloads despite being available only in the city of Bengaluru.
Do you use predictive text? It could be slowing you down
Functions such as autocorrect and predictive text are designed to make typing faster and more efficient. But research shows this isn’t necessarily true.
Parliamentary panel recommends new regulator to oversee Facebook, Twitter
The high-level committee is asking for tighter rules because current laws treating social media platforms as intermediaries have not done enough in terms of regulation.
Govt lists bill to ‘prohibit’ pvt cryptocurrencies, create RBI variant in Parliament session
Cryptocurrency and Regulation of Official Digital Currency Bill, 2021, seeks to prohibit all private cryptocurrencies with 'certain exceptions to promote underlying technology'.
PNB denies cybersecurity firm’s claim that 180 million customers’ data was breached
Chandigarh-based cybersecurity firm CyberX9 said a vulnerable PNB internal server could have allowed in a hacker, and the bank fixed problem months after patch was available.
YourTurn
All political talk in India is obsessing over 2024. The real deal is 2025
Much was made of Mohan Bhagwat's meeting with media editors recently, but not too many took note of his talks with book publishers a few months ago.
Jalandhar’s Rs 2,000-cr sports goods industry says Covid shut 40% units, govt says no distress
ThePrint visited Jalandhar, where workers and business owners in the sporting goods industry are sending distress signals. Government officials say concerns are overblown.
Defence
Why Rajnath raised China’s Ladakh aggression at 2+2 dialogue with Beijing’s friend Russia
India and Russia’s maiden 2+2 dialogue comes at a time when New Delhi’s ties with Washington are on an upswing while its oldest ally — Moscow — gets closer to Beijing.
Yes, UPA’s dead. But here’s what Mamata, PK are saying about Congress & why that’s right too
Even in its second successive annihilation by BJP, Congress retained a solid block of 20% votes. That’s why all of BJP’s victims want the Congress at the core of their challenge.