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In a surprising end-of-year message, Telegram’s CEO Pavel Durov urged his followers to reduce their sensory overload, highlighting its detrimental effects on mental health. Durov didn’t hold back in criticizing the EU’s privacy laws, declaring them to be a ‘direct attack on personal freedom. Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov has a ‘late’ Christmas message…
Zoho’s co-founder Sridhar Vembu highlighted two R&D approaches: catching up and advancing technology, both needing patience and investment. This comes as Zoho shelved its $700 million chipmaking plan due to tech confidence issues. Meanwhile, India is aggressively pursuing semiconductor manufacturing, aiming for global parity by 2032 with significant government backing and industry participation. Zoho co-founder…
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has once again cautioned that artificial intelligence is presently an ‘industrial bubble’, even he insisted that the technology itself is real and will ultimately deliver huge amounts of benefits to the society. Recently, speaking at the Italian Tech Week alongside Exor CEO John Elkann, Bezos said that the excitement around AI…
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has revealed the single and most important factor behind the company’s trillion-dollar success: “obsessive, compulsive focus on the customer” rather than on competitors. Speaking at the Economic Club of Washington, Bezos stressed on the fact that many of the CEOs and founders claim that they prioritise customers but in reality they…
Elon Musk, Satya Nadella (File photos) As the AI race hot up in 2025, the corporate leadership in Google, Microsoft, Meta and other tech companies changed the way companies work. Driven by the high stakes of the AI race, the world’s most powerful tech leaders shifted into what Silicon Valley calls “Founder Mode”. From personally…
Florida governor Ron DeSantis has said that the fiscal outlook of the Washington state’s took a major hit after Amazon founder Jeff Bezos relocated from the state to Florida in late 2023. In a post shared on social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter) DeSantis argued that Washington had ‘lost its biggest taxpayer’ and…
Google co-founder Sergey Brin recently shared an important tip that he said he learned from one of the company’s biggest hardware failures. During a talk at Stanford for the engineering school’s centennial year, Google and Alphabet co-founder Sergey Brin recalled Google Glass failure. Brin spoke about Glass failure when a Stanford student asked him, “What…
US-based iRobot, which was once considered one of America’s biggest consumer electronics companies, filed for bankruptcy last week. Now, Colin Angle, the co-founder and former CEO of the Roomba robot vacuum maker, has revealed what went wrong for the company. Angle claimed that unfair competition from Chinese companies played a major role in iRobot’s recent…
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos recently talked about the early gruelling days of Amazon. He revealed the challenges he faced while raising seed capital for his fledging online bookstore and admitted that his blunt honesty may have cost him potential backers. As reported by Fortune, speaking at the DealBook Summit with Andrew Ross Sorkin, Bezos revealed…
Microsoft founder Bill Gates has now acknowledged that he was ‘very wrong’ in assuming that making information widely available would naturally lead people to seek out accurate facts. Speaking in an interview with CNBC, Gates said that the had been quite naive to believe that access to information alone would curb misinformation. But now he…
