How to review and download all data related to your Google account. Considering that most of us use at least one Google service in our daily routine, we end up creating some data that get saved on Google’s servers.
This data could be related to your Android device configuration, search history, videos watched on YouTube, bookmarks, calendar entries, files and folders saved on GDrive, etc. Thankfully, Google has a provision that allows you to review your settings for Google products and also gives you the option to download all the data related to a Google account as one single file. Here are the steps to do so: Yes, privacy crackdowns matter: Facebook is starting to feel the pinch.
It’s easy to believe that Facebook Inc. is an unstoppable advertising force built on pervasive human surveillance and that meek regulatory or legislative efforts do nothing to stop it.
Despite those concerns, the privacy reckoning for Facebook and the rest of the internet is denting the company’s ad machine. Facebook spooked investors a bit on Wednesday during a conference call to discuss its second-quarter earnings. Govt's silence dangerous: Priyanka on reports of threat to 1 mn auto jobs. Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Friday cited a media report to claim that jobs of one million people in the automobile sector were in danger and asserted that the BJP government's silence on job losses was "most dangerous".
Her remarks came after industry body ACMA on Wednesday said around 1 million jobs could be on the line if the prolonged slowdown in the automobile industry continues. Priyanka Gandhi tagged the media report on Twitter which said auto parts industry is fearing that 1 million jobs could be at stake due to the slowdown. SoftBank announces new $108-billion Vision Fund with Apple, Microsoft.
SoftBank Group’s founder Masayoshi Son launched a second Vision Fund, seeking to extend his reign as the world’s most influential technology investor.
The Japanese conglomerate will commit $38 billion to Vision Fund 2 with the goal of raising a total of $108 billion, SoftBank said Friday. Apple Inc, Microsoft Corp, sovereign wealth fund of Kazakhstan and a number of Japanese finance companies are also expected to contribute capital, SoftBank said. If the fundraising meets that goal, it would be even larger than the first $100 billion effort. Son wants to raise a new massive fund every two or three years to take advantage of opportunities he sees in cutting-edge technologies such as artificial intelligence and autonomous driving.
SoftBank in June disclosed that the initial Vision Fund has earned 62 per cent returns so far after making 71 investments for a total of $64.2 billion. Another question is whether SoftBank will keep up the pace and scale of investments. Chandrayaan-2: 2nd orbit-raising smooth, expected to reach Moon on Aug 20. Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) successfully conducted the second Earth-bound orbit raising maneuver for the Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft.
Isro officials said that second maneuver has been performed successfully on Friday at 0108 hours (IST) as planned, using the onboard propulsion system for a firing duration of 883 seconds. The orbit achieved was 251 x 54829 km. All spacecraft parameters were normal. The third orbit raising maneuver is scheduled on July 29, 2019, between 1430–1530 hours (IST). India's second mission to the Moon, Chandrayaan-2, is expected to reach the Moon on August 20, 2019. Samsung Galaxy Fold finally ready for launch, to hit markets in September. Samsung's first foldable smartphone, the Galaxy Fold, will go on sale from September in selected markets after the launch was delayed by screen problems earlier this year, the company said on Thursday.
Samsung is hoping its highly anticipated foldable phone will revive flagging smartphone sales but its rollout has been hampered by defects in samples reported in April, when it was originally due to hit the US market. The delays cost the South Korean tech giant sales that could have provided a decent bump in revenue during the slow summer season. Samsung said in a statement it had made improvements to the nearly $2,000 phone and was conducting final tests. Changes included strengthening hinges which early reviewers had found to be problematic. Analysts said headlines about glitches with sample Folds would dampen consumer excitement around the launch. ITR 2019-20: A simple step-by-step guide to filing your income-tax return. Filing Income Tax Returns (ITR) can be a tedious task.
Before filing ITR, you will need to create an e-filing account on the Income Tax website, incometaxindiaefiling.gov.in and register yourself. RBI set to cut interest rate in August for the fourth time in a row: Report. The Reserve Bank of India is set to cut interest rates in August for the fourth meeting in a row, according to a Reuters poll of economists, a majority of whom said risks to their already-modest growth forecasts were skewed more to the downside.
If the RBI does cut rates next month, it will be the most aggressive amongst dovish central banks in Asia. The last time the RBI delivered so many back-to-back cuts was after the global financial crisis over a decade ago, when most major central banks went on a cutting spree to revive economic growth. Almost 80 per cent of 66 economists in the July 17-24 poll expected the RBI to cut its benchmark repo rate by 25 basis points to 5.50 per cent at the Aug. 7 meeting. Three respondents predicted a 50 basis points cut and the remaining 10 forecast policy on hold. Byju's to replace Oppo on Team India jersey after West Indies tour. From September onwards, Team India will have a new brand name on their jerseys.
Chinese mobile-maker Oppo will be replaced by Byju's, the Bangalore-based educational technology and online tutorial firm. Team India will sport Oppo logo on their jerseys till the West Indies tour which commences from August 3 and ends on September 2. Selectors are wrong, Gill, Rahane must be in team for West Indies: Ganguly. Former India captain Sourav Ganguly on Wednesday questioned the omission of veteran Ajinkya Rahane and young Shubman Gill from the ODI squad for the tour of West Indies, urging the selection committee to be consistent with their policies.
An inconsistent Kedar Jadhav has been retained while Gill, who has been adjudged man-of-the-series in the five List A games in the West Indies, scoring 218 runs. Ganguly took to Twitter to take a dig at the selectors stating the main agenda should be picking the best possible team and not making people happy. Fintech firm Zeta's valuation touches $300 mn in Sodexo-led funding round.
Fintech company Zeta said that its valuation reached $300 million after securing a series C investment from France-based Sodexo Benefits and Rewards (BRS) for a strategic minority stake. The company declined to reveal the size of the funding. The Bengaluru-based firm will use the funding to expand its business in the United States, United Kingdom, Europe, and Southeast Asia.
Nike running shoes sell for $437,500, smash auction record for sneakers. A pair of 1972 running shoes, one of the first pairs made by Nike The so-called Nike "Moon Shoe," designed by Nike co-founder and track coach Bill Bowerman for runners at the 1972 Olympics trials, was the top lot in the first-ever auction dedicated to sneakers at Sotheby's auction house in New York. Sotheby's said the price was a world auction record for a pair of sneakers. The buyer in the online auction was not immediately known. Bihar population problem: 94% women know about contraception, 20% use them. Married early, Premlata Devi had had four children by the time she was 24 years old--a boy and three girls. A homemaker from Tikari block in southern Bihar’s Gaya district, she had had a copper intrauterine device (IUD, the most common brand name being Copper-T) inserted for contraception after the birth of her second child. Six years later, she had got it removed because of abdominal pains and increased uterine bleeding, both known side-effects of the device.
India's interest-rate stance now depends on data, says Shaktikanta Das. Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Shaktikanta Das said policy makers have effectively delivered more easing than the three interest-rate cuts this year suggest, signaling a more cautious stance on future action. In one of his first interviews with media since taking office seven months ago, Das said he sees signs of a recovery in economic growth and further monetary policy steps will depend on incoming data. The central bank’s switch to an accommodative stance in June in itself amounts to a 25 basis-point cut, he said, on top of the 75 basis points of cuts since February. “Effectively, the rate cut has been 100 basis points if you take into account the change in stance,” Das said ahead of the next Monetary Policy Committee meeting that begins August 5.
Govt should ease law on firing workers, reform labour laws: Panagariya. India should ease norms for hiring and firing workers to make it easier for companies to do business in the country, according to a former adviser to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government. Easing the rules are crucial for employers, as their primary aim is not to fire workers, Arvind Panagariya, the head of government think-tank NITI Aayog, said in an interview in New Delhi.
“You need consistency across labour laws.” Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, in her maiden budget this month, proposed combining multiple laws governing workers to form four sets of labor codes to improve the ease of doing business. But what’s needed is the reform of labor laws and not just streamlining of existing ones, said Panagariya. He said the government’s plan to introduce a single minimum wage across the country may hurt businesses in smaller towns considering the wide differences in costs across urban and rural India. Viral Acharya ends his RBI stint with a sense of unfinished business. Viral Acharya will be ending his stint as deputy governor at the Reserve Bank of India with a sense of unfinished business, particularly involving the central bank’s autonomy and the health of lenders. Kashmir is issue between India-Pak; US ready to assist talks: State Dept.
The Trump administration has launched a damage control exercise after the President's remarks about mediation on Kashmir, with the State Department on Tuesday saying it was a "bilateral" issue between India and Pakistan, and the US "welcomes" the two countries "sitting down" for talks. Over 28,000 species are officially threatened, with more likely to come. More than 28,000 species around the world are threatened, according to the Red List of Threatened Species compiled by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN). The list, updated on Thursday night, has assessed the extinction risk of almost 106,000 species and found more than a quarter are in trouble. While recent headline-grabbing estimates put as many as 1 million species facing extinction, these were based on approximations, whereas the IUCN uses rigorous criteria to assess each species, creating the world-standard guide to biodiversity extinction risk.
Apollo 11 made us believe we could do anything, but it could hasten our end. The Apollo project gave us the astonishing spectacle of a blue marble rising over the sterile surface of the moon. Maharashtra tops in ATM frauds, Delhi, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka follow. Maharashtra reported 233 cases of ATM fraud in 2018-19, the highest in the entire country, Reserve Bank Of India (RBI) data, accessed by TOI, revealed. The data showed that Delhi grabbed the second spot with 179 cases, followed by Tamil Nadu with 147 cases of ATM fraud. Instagram's trial to hide number of 'likes' may save users' self-esteem. World Bank decides not to fund project to build AP's new capital Amaravati.
The World Bank will not give loans to build Andhra Pradesh's new capital city, Amaravati, after getting complaints from civil society groups that the project had displaced thousands and the government had forcibly acquired farmlands. The multilateral lending agency on its website categorised the $ 300-million project as "dropped" after studying for months representations sent to its officials against the project. N Chandrababu Naidu, when he was chief minister of the state, had sought funding for the project in 2015, but the Bank had deferred its decision in the light of the alleged government excesses. Andhra Pradesh is now governed by chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy, and a senior official said the government is yet to hear from the Bank.
According to this official, the Bank communicates such decisions to the central government, which then passes on the information to states. Who is behind Mumbai building collapse? Five key points based on data. The Mumbai Fire Brigade (MFB) answers one call nearly every day regarding a building or its parts having crumbled, fire brigade data show. There are now more than 14,000 buildings in Mumbai that are over 50 years old and which, due to age-related instability and lack of maintenance, are at risk of collapse. One such building collapsed on July 16, 2019, in Dongri, south Mumbai leaving 14 dead and nine injured, as we reported on July 16, 2019.
Women yet to step on moon but well intertwined with it in literature. In the late 17th century, the female English playwright Aphra Behn wrote a smash hit play about a man obsessed with the moon, who was constantly travelling there in his imagination. Exactly 282 years later, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin actually made that dream a reality.
50 years of Apollo mission: Was Moon landing fake? Here are the facts. Even fifty years after astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the Moon, there are people who still insist that it never happened and that it was a hoax perpetrated by the US government. On July 20, 1969, the Apollo 11 Mission landed two men on the Moon. India's Chandrayaan-2 moon mission to take off on July 22, Isro confirms. India risking US ire? Pentagon against any country buying S-400 from Russia. Netflix to offer an affordable Rs 250 a month, mobile-only plan in India. Nearly 30 new car, 20 two-wheeler launches lined up till March 2020. 'Anti-patriotic': RSS wing says India must not issue foreign currency bonds.
Future of food: Feeding 10 bn by 2050 requires genetically modified crops. 'One small step for a man': Did we mishear Armstrong's first words on Moon? MyMoneyMantra raises Rs 104 crore from Dutch investor, Vaalon Capital. How drawing map of the Moon for Apollo became a national priority. Does a contrarian investing strategy yield better results? An analysis. India's decentralised renewables workforce to double by 2022-23: Report. Australian newspapers lose defamation appeal against Chris Gayle. Williamson breaks Jayawardene's record, becomes captain with most WC runs. 114,000 affected as rains flood 154 villages in Meghalaya's West Garo Hills. States with gender equality are doing better on new employment index. Space travel was a dream for artists long before Armstrong stepped on moon. Less support from women in space exploration? Time to change perception. Pak won't open airspace until India withdraws jets from airbases: Official.
Is South Korea the new safe haven for Indian Swiss bank account holders? American experience suggests that an educated workforce may be overrated. India lifted 271 mn out of poverty in 2006-16 at fastest rate globally: UN. Chandrayaan-2 mission: From cost to India's space run, all you need to know. Vivo Z1Pro review: Choose this for top-notch performance, not interface. Every number in Budget is authentic, says Finance Minister Sitharaman. Reality or studio shoot? Why moon landing conspiracy theories still exist. Adani's new 'big money maker' plan: Selling data services to Amazon, Google. PSBs losing lead bank relationships to private counterparts, says study. Facebook plans to double women employees globally in 5 years. Connaught Place 9th most expensive office location; Hong Kong tops chart.
Data tariffs stabilise after 2.5 yrs, Airtel pips Jio in monthly data usage. When Walmart got a $10 billion Phone Pe surprise after buying Flipkart. Majority in age-group of 20-30 addicted to smoking in Dehi-NCR: Survey. Hyundai launches fully electric Kona SUV in India at Rs 25.3 lakh. HIV test compulsory before marriage? Goa is considering, says health min. Cricket's 'Big Three' still dominating the game both on and off the field. Instagram wants to curb online bullying with a pop-up warning. Indian Army organises commemorative trek to mark 20 years of Kargil war. Budget impact: FDI cap in insurance sector may be raised to 74% Budget 2019: The toughest balancing act for India's new finance minister. Budget 2019: Govt may cut taxes on biz, hike spending for economic growth. Budget 2019: Weak growth may prompt govt to borrow more, say economists. Budget 2019: Traders have a challenge spotting govt's hidden, growing debt. Budget 2019: Time for govt to restore its credibility, get numbers right.
Hike in I-T exemption level, tax on income over Rs 10 cr in Budget: Survey. 50 yrs of moon landing: When the world paused to watch Armstrong's moonwalk. Tax sops, funding access: What fintech, start-ups expect in Budget 2019. PSU bank recap, growth revival, fiscal prudence: Expectations from Budget. Need to reduce centrally sponsored schemes to improve spending: N K Singh. Dhoni did right by taking time for 'top-rated' knock against WI: Bumrah. Business Standard. NASA plans to send a drone to explore Saturn's largest moon 'Titan'
Failure of large HFCs similar to bank collapse, says RBI report. Inside Apple's long goodbye to Jony Ive, the man who designed the iPhone. Know the Union Budget: What is a Finance Bill and why is it important? Business Standard. India likely to let budget deficit rise as tax receipts fall short. PM Modi interacts with 40 economists, industry experts ahead of Budget.
SpaceX attempts 'Big Bang' military mission with massive rocket. Companies may soon have to pay GST on inter-state office services like HR. BJP gets first Zilla Parishad in Bengal as TMC members switch sides. A Rs 56,000-cr afforestation fund threatens India's indigenous communities. What has caused anomaly in rupee forwards? Traders suspect the hand of RBI. Sluggish monsoon: 84% of IMD's subdivisions record deficient rainfall. From filing complaint to giving judgment, social media needs more humans. 600 million people at risk: Climate change may soon turn critical in India. Walmart to pay $282 mn for violating anti-corruption rules in 4 countries. Tax foreign tech giants operating in India, say RSS ideologues, Gandhian. NCLT sets 90-day deadline for Jet Airways bankruptcy resolution. After 128 encephalitis deaths, Bihar's poorest prefer health to jobs, roads.
Working for long? Why you should not be at work more than 35 hours a week. Will Libra cryptocurrency give more political power to Facebook globally? Why 5G is the next headache for some of India's richest businessmen. LinkedIn survey reveals 62% Indians daunted by fast pace of changing skills. Nirmala Sitharaman Budget Speech. Jet pilots, engineers, Dutch vendors want to be parties to bankruptcy case.