Today’s top tech news:TCS, Wipro and Infosys hit by buyback share tax, Indian Army officers might be getting profiled through WhatsApp and Microsoft brings back its first OS for Stranger Things 3
The budget also proposed increasing the minimum public shareholding to 35%, so a lot more shares are going to be up for grabs in the market as promoters dilute their own shareholding.
Both factors will have a heavy bearing on Wipro and Infosys, in particular, since investments in those companies were primary based on payout yields rather than earnings and buyback shares were a key part of their strategy.
India's patchy internet forces Spotify to go 'Lite' — but leaves iOS users out of the loop
Spotify Lite has 90% of the same features as the original app — just less animations and graphic bells and whistles, which the company claims aren’t the ‘core experience’ of Spotify.
Indian Army fears that foreign intelligence may be using WhatsApp to profile its officers
Microsoft and Netflix collaborate for Stranger Things 3 to turn your head upside down in 1985
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Microsoft has relaunched Windows 1.0 — first introduced in 1985 — as Windows 1.11, a game for the games of Stranger Things 3. The namesake ‘operating system’ is filled with easter eggs and tasks that will lead you through the world of Stranger Things as you go deeper into the game.
The game is free for download from the Windows Store along with Windows 10 themes based on the Netflix show.
Other issues like Aadhaar cards for children, how the government uses the information you provide, and how to register complaints of misuse has also been outlined.
Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Jio speeds up its broadband plan ahead of 5G spectrum auction