1. Google recently introduced the latest version of its Android operating system – Android 8.0 Oreo. The update succeeds Android Nougat and brings in several new features to Android smartphones. These include picture-in-picture video, pinned shortcuts and widgets, Smart Text selection, colour icons, and several enhanced security features.
2. Over the next few weeks, flyers traveling through Munich Airport will be greeted by a humanoid robot named Josie Pepper, who will be able to field questions about flight operations, and the nearest restaurant or loo.
3. Walmart’s investment negotiations with Flipkart include a proposal to open a chain of retail stores in India. The US-based retail giant is negotiating to buy more than a 30% stake in India’s largest online marketplace as it seeks to open another global front in its battle against Amazon.
4. Huawei's sub-brand Honor is going to sell one of its most popular handsets, the Honor 9 Lite today, February 20, at 12PM on domestic e-commerce platform Flipkart.
5. Uber Technologies Chief Executive Officer Dara Khosrowshahi said on Tuesday he can see commercialisation of the Uber Air flying taxi service happening within five to 10 years.
6. US chipmaker Qualcomm raised its offer to buy NXP Semiconductors NV to $127.50 per share from $110, after being pressured by shareholders led by activist hedge fund Elliott Management Corp.
7. Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said disruptive technologies such as blockchain and Internet of Things will have a deep impact on the way "we live and work", and "rapid adaptation" at our work places will be needed to keep up with them.
8. Sony Corp looks set to become the latest blue-chip firm to jockey for position in Japan's taxi and ride-hailing market, with plans for a joint venture to develop an artificial intelligence-based hailing system.
9. In 2020 India is expected to see growth of 14 million units of smartphones, CLSA stated in its report. The report stated that smartphone penetration in India reached 43% in 2017 declining 1% from the previous year when it was 44%.
10. State-owned telecom operator BSNL has announced that it has withdrawn some of its prepaid plans which include the data Special Tariff Vouchers (STV) and combo STV.
11. Staffing company Adecco said on Tuesday it bought US-based online recruitment platform Vettery for an undisclosed sum to increase its footprint in the digital permanent recruitment market.
12. Samsung Display now plans to make OLED panels for 20 million or fewer iPhones at the South Chungcheong plant in the January-March quarter, significantly lower than its initial goal of supplying panels for 45 million to 50 million iPhones.
13. Korean electronic major Samsung has inked a partnership with the Government of Tamil Nadu for setting up 15 Smart Healthcare centres in the State. Under the initiative, Samsung would provide advanced healthcare equipment like digital ultrasound, x-ray machines, apart from LED TV, air conditioner and refrigerators to select government hospitals.
14. Customers of about 90 utility firms including power, telecom and DTH, can now pay their bills online using Google Tez applications.
15. Bill Gates says he has paid more than $10 billion in taxes over a lifetime but billionaires like him should pay "significantly" more because they benefit more from the system.
16. India's software services exports will see revenue growth of 7-9% in constant currency terms in the fiscal year to March 2019.
17. Claiming that reporting disability-related abuse on Twitter remained cumbersome, a Britain-based charity on Tuesday has urged the microblogging site to do more to help users with disability to report hate speech.
18. Taxi app Uber is dropping a legal appeal against the introduction of more stringent English language tests for drivers in London after the city's transport regulator said it would water down its stringent proposals.
19. According to Bank of England Governor Mark Carney, Bitcoin has failed as a currency measured by standard benchmarks, and is neither a store of value nor a useful way to buy things.
20. The number of internet users in India will touch half-a-billion by June this year, according to the report 'Internet in India 2017' published jointly by the Internet and Mobile Association of India & Kantar IMRB today.
21. South Korean tech giant Samsung has announced that it has begun mass producing, what the company is claiming to be, the industry’s largest capacity Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) solid state drive (SSD) – the PM1643.
22. Google has made public the details of a medium-level security flaw in Microsoft Edge browser whose patch is still not produced. The vulnerability was first discovered in November 2017, by the search giant's Project Zero.
23. Microsoft has announced that it is ending support for all push notifications for Windows Phone 7.5 and Windows Phone 8.0 devices starting from Tuesday.
24. Global banking regulators signalled on Monday they were in no rush to adapt their rules to financial technology firms that have begun nibbling away at banks' markets.
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