NEW DELHI - Pizza Hut announced the launch of its 500th store in the Indian subcontinent with the latest being opened in Delhi on Friday. The company also said that it plans to launch 200 more outlets in India by 2022. "Located at Laxmi Nagar, the 500th store is modelled on Pizza Hut's new Fast-Casual format, which brings alive contemporary store design, convenient and faster service, and an open-kitchen which appeals to millennials," said a Pizza Hut statement.
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SAN FRANCISCO - Google Search engine -- the default platform for iOS users -- is the best, Apple CEO Tim Cook has said, adding that the company has put proper controls in its Safari web browser to safeguard users' data. In an interview with Axios on HBO on Sunday night, Cook defended Apple's billion-dollar deal with Google that keeps Google Search a default search platform on its devices. "One, I think their (Google's) Search engine is the best. But two, look at what we've done with the controls.
 MADRID - The world's most popular freeware instant messaging app confirmed its prior announcement that, as of Monday, any users who have not backed up their stored data and chats on Google Drive will lose their chat histories. WhatsApp, which is owned by tech giant Facebook, had reached an agreement with Google last August to store user content on the Google Drive cloud storage service without said data affecting the user's...
 SAN FRANCISCO - Google has reportedly picked David Feinberg, CEO of US-based health services organisation Geisinger Health, to lead the company's healthcare efforts. While Google has not officially confirmed the move, Geisinger, in a statement on Thursday, said that Feinberg was leaving Geisinger on January 3, 2019, to assume a leadership role at Google. Feinberg's job at Google will involve figuring out how to organize the...
 SAN FRANCISCO - Microsoft has closed its $7.5 billion acquisition of GitHub, a leading software development platform which brings more than 31 million developers to create, collaborate, share and build on each other's work. Nat Friedman, former CEO of Xamarin (acquired by Microsoft in 2016), is taking over as GitHub's CEO, Microsoft said in a statement on Friday. Microsoft announced in June that it has reached an agreement...
 SAN FRANCISCO - A second patent has been granted to Apple regarding the additions the company intends to incorporate in its originally planned foldable device. The second patent is focused on a flexible hinge and the use of a fabric for its housing, Patently Apple, an Apple-centric blog focused on the company's latest Intellectual Property (IP) developments, reported on Tuesday. According to the report, the description of the second patent...
 SAN FRANCISCO - Electronics worth tens of thousands of dollars were stolen from the Palo Alto Apple store in California in almost 12 hours during the iPhone XS launch weekend, the media reported. "According to Palo Alto police, the city's Apple store was first hit at 7PM on Saturday. In this round, the eight suspects got off with $57,000 worth of demo iPhone models -- including the new iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max --
 SAN FRANCISCO - Facing human rights violation allegations over the misuse of its platform by the Myanmar government to fuel atrocities against the Rohingya Muslim minority, social networking giant Facebook has announced the hiring of a human rights policy director. The social media firm's new director would help promote peace, human freedoms and build strong communities while simultaneously crack down those who...
 SAN FRANCISCO - Apple officially introduced its 2018 line-up of iPhones -- the premium iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max and iPhone XR at an event in California late on Wednesday. The iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max will support dual SIM and dual standby functionality. The premium iPhone XS and XS Max come with upgraded 12MP + 12MP camera and 2x optical zoom. There is an improved TrueTone quad-LED flash as well.
 SAN FRANCISCO - Google that came into existence 20 years back with its first product Search engine from a garage today has seven products that are used by more than a billion people every month. The exact date of the company's founding is up for debate -- even for those who are in the business of providing answers. "Google Inc. was incorporated on September 4, but for more than a decade we've celebrated our birthday on September 27,
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