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A “politically-sophisticated” network of more than a thousand actors attempted to influence the Delhi elections in February through Facebook, a recently fired Facebook employee said in a memo. The social media giant didn’t disclose the network publicly. However, its former employee noted in the 6,600-word memo that the attempt was taken down silently.

Walmart’s Flipkart said on Tuesday it would create 70,000 new jobs and employ many more as delivery partners and in other roles as it prepares for a surge in online shopping during the busy Indian festive season.

Chinese tech giant Tencent said Tuesday it was opening a new Singapore office to serve as a Southeast Asia hub, as the firm reels from setbacks in the US and India.

Investor demand for Reliance’s retail business is so strong that Carlyle and SoftBank are among those that have been put onto a waiting list, according to people familiar with the matter.

Walmart said it is pressing ahead with its goal to invest in TikTok as Oracle takes the lead in a partnership with the Chinese video-sharing app.

Apple's event is taking place virtually later today where the Cupertino company is expected to unveil the new generations of the Apple Watch and iPad. The event, which Apple calls “Time flies,” is likely to bring the Apple Watch Series 6 as the showstopper. It could also be a place where the company would unveil the Apple Watch SE and iPad Air 4 aka iPad Air (2020...

The WD My Passport NVMe SSD is the newest addition to the company’s popular series of portable storage and the first of the series to utilize speedy NVMe technology. This stylish release from WD offers 256-bit AES hardware encryption and is available in a range of colors such as gray, blue, red, and gold. WD’s foray into the NVMe external storage space makes sense, as it is becoming the standard choice for those who deal with huge files and quick and easy supplemental storage options. (more…)

NVIDIA made another major acquisition with the announcement of the definitive agreement to acquire Arm. Last year, NVIDIA acquired Mellanox for just under $7 billion.  Now, for an additional $40 billion, NVIDIA has its own full-stack. (more…)

Today, Scality announced a new release of its RING object storage software platform and shared a few performance metrics when running on an all-flash cluster. Scality was founded in 2009. The company has two primary products.  The first is RING, the object storage software platform which is the focus of today's article. RING is currently on its eighth major revision, and so is frequently referred to as RING8. The second is the Zenko multi-cloud controller that we covered earlier this year. It is available in open source and enterprise editions. (more…)

Amazon.com on Monday said it is recruiting 100,000 more workers - the fourth hiring spree it has announced for the United States this year - to keep pace with e-commerce demand that jumped during the pandemic