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Donald Trump's paid maternity leave plan gets Hillary Clinton rejoinder Republican presidential nominee   Donald Trump   has introduced an unorthodox childcare plan, becoming a rareRepublican calling for paid maternity leave. Introduced on Tuesday by his daughter Ivanka, who asserted that childcare issues were at the "root of wage inequality by disproportionately affecting women", Trump tried to soften his image at an event held in Pennsylvania, a former stronghold for moderate Republicans that has trended Democratic in recent years,   the Guardian reported. Trump also asserted that "my opponent has no childcare plan". Clinton has in fact made a number of detailed proposals on childcare. Clinton in June last year first outlined a programme for universal pre-kindergarten and in May this year proposed to cap childcare costs at ten per cent of household income and to introduce 12 weeks of paid family leave. Maya Harris, a senior policy adviser to Clin...

Google to unveil Pixel and Pixel XL smartphones in October Google   will unveil its Pixel(Nexus) range of devices along with Daydream virtual reality (VR) and a new 4K compatible Chromecast to replace the currently available options on October 4, media reported on Tuesday. Earlier reports pointed out that HTC is making this year's Nexus phones and there are two of them — Pixel and Pixel XL, code named Sailfish and Marlin, respectively. "Google's Pixel XL has allegedly surfaced on a Geekbench benchmark listing recently, showcasing a couple of pieces of information that seem to confirm once more that the codename for the device is Marlin,"technology website reported on Tuesday. Pixel XL is expected to have an aluminum unibody design, a rear-facing fingerprint scanner and a 5.5-inch screen, according to earlier leaks. Pixel XL is rumoured   Smartphones   to pack quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 processor clocked at 1.59GHz paired up with 4GB of RAM and wil...

Pfizer nears agreement to buy Medivation for $14 billion US pharmaceutical giant   Pfizer   is nearing a deal to buy US biotech firm Medivation, which specialises in   cancer treatments , for nearly $14 billion, US media reported. Bloomberg and The Wall Street Journal said the deal could be made public as early as today. The Journal, citing people familiar with the matter, said it could be an all-cash transaction. Pfizer's offer for the San Francisco, California-basedMedivatio n goes far beyond the company's market value of $11.1 billion. Medivation shares closed at $67.16 in Friday trading. By purchasing Medivation, Pfizer would add to its portfolio the drug Xtandi, a promising treatment against prostate cancer that analysts estimate will generate some $1.33 billion in annual sales by 2020.   Visit Here

Azim Premji and Shiv Nadar in Forbes list of 100 richest tech tycoons Wipro   Chairman Azim Premji and   HCL   co-founder   Shiv Nadar   are the only two billionaires from   India   in Forbes' list of the world's 100 richest people in technology, ranking in the top 20 ahead of Google boss Eric Schmidt and Uber CEO Travis Kalanick. The '100 Richest Tech Billionaires In The World 2016' list has been topped by Microsoft founder Bill Gates with an estimated fortune of USD 78 billion. Premji ranks 13th on the list with a net worth of USD 16 billion and Nadar comes in on the 17th spot with USD 11.6 billion of net worth. Two Indian-American technology czars Symphony Technology Group CEO Romesh Wadhwani and founders of IT consulting and outsourcing company Syntel Bharat Desai and his wife Neerja Sethi are also on the list. Forbes   said Premji, who heads India's third-largest outsourcer, Wipro has been on a buying spree in the past year to boo...

Facebook to live stream US Democratic, Republican conventions Social networking giant   Facebook   has partnered with the US television network ABC for a non-stop live streaming of both the   Democratic   and   Republican   National Conventions. The Republican National Convention started in Cleveland, Ohio on Monday night and will run till Thursday while the Democratic National Convention is set for July 25-28 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Not just livestreaming, Facebook will provide an in-depth coverage of both the events, reported on Monday. Earlier, micro-blogging site Twitter had signed a deal with the US television network CBS to stream both the conventions. Twitter has permission to broadcast the CBSN feed—the company's 24-hour digital news streaming service—and anyone online can watch for free even if they do not have a Twitter account.   Read More

Twitter selling ad spots linked to NFL for over $50 million Micro-blogging website   Twitter   is planning to sell the ad packages linked to US National Football League (NFL) games streaming — which it purchased for $10 million back in April — for nearly $50 million, a media report said on Thursday. Twitter paid for the right to stream 10 of the   NFL   Thursday night games and Twitter CEO   Jack Dorsey   had hinted that this deal would help the company earn better traffic, tehnology website   Re/Code   reported. Dorsey and COO Adam Bain were in France at the annual Cannes Lions ad festival this week, working to drum up business. “These ads packages, which combine the ad inventory Twitter has around NFL, highlights that it also sold last year, plus the NFL game footage it bought this year, are selling between $2 million and $8 million per advertiser,” the report quoted a source as saying. That range depends on the number of ads and w...

Walmart rips up China online strategy, starts again with stake in Alibaba rival Walmart   Stores Inc has sold its Chinese   online   grocery store in return for a stake in the country's no. 2   e-commerce   firm, ripping up its previous strategy in efforts to cure ailing sales in one of the world's toughest retail markets. The deal will see the US grocery giant swap its Yihaodian platform for a 5% stake in Inc, worth about $1.5 billion by the firm's latest market value. The move also gives Walmart a ringside seat in bitter rivalry with Chinese e-commerce leader   Alibaba   Group Holding Ltd. The sell-off, announced on Monday, is a significant shift for Walmart in China, where it operates more than 400 bricks-and-mortar stores. The firm has been shuttering underperforming outlets and grappling with soft online sales in the world's second-biggest economy since it bought full control of Yihaodian in July last year, saying the site would play a l...

Facebook introduces 360-degree photos Social media giant  Facebook  on Thursday introduced a new feature that enables users upload and view 360-degrees photos right in the News Feed, a media report said. "Along with 360 photos from your friends and family, you can discover stunning new 360 photos on Facebook from public figures, publishers, and other organizations," technology website  The Verge  quoted Andy Huang, product manager, Facebook, as saying. "360 photos give you the ability to take the stage in front of 100,000 fans with Paul McCartney, get behind-the-scenes access to the Supreme Court via  The New York Times, visit the International Space Station with NASA, and more," he said. After capturing a panorama or  360-degree photos  with smartphone camera or a third-party app, users can now post the photo directly to the social network, where it will be converted into an image that can be viewed on desktop or any smartphone, the report...

Protests turn violent outside Trump's rally in New Mexico; clashes erupt Donald Trump's rally in   New Mexico   turned violent as anti-Trump demonstrators clashed with police, hurling rocks and burning clothes at officers, the latest scuffle to hit the presumptive   Republican   presidential nominee's campaign. The "unlawful assembly" went on rampage, lighted fires and threw rocks at the police officers and their horses outside Trump's rally at a convention centre in New Mexico's Albuquerque. The police resorted to launching smoke bombs to disperse the violent crowd which overturned barricades and hurled rocks. The protesters disrupted the 69-year-old New York-based real estate tycoon's speech several times yesterday. Most of the protesters were escorted out one by one. "Go ahead, get them out of here,"   Donald Trump   told one of them. However, the police had a tough time in controlling the demonstrators who were protesting ag...

Facebook launches WhatsApp desktop app for Windows, Mac Social media giant Facebook has made available its   WhatsApp   instant messaging smartphone service on Macand Windows desktops, media reports said on Wednesday. "The new desktop app mirrors your mobile device, allowing you to message friends and family while your phone is in your pocket," Product reviews, how-tos, deals and the latest tech news quoted WhatsApp as saying. Because it runs natively on your desktop as opposed to through an app on your browser, the app allows for native notifications and better keyboard shortcuts, WhatsApp said in a post. The app runs on Windows 8 and above and Mac OS 10.9 and above. To sync the newly-launched Facebook-owned desktop app with smartphone, open the app and scan the QR code with your phone. After several months of beta testing, Facebook recently rolled out Facebook and Messenger apps on Windows 10. The company also updated photo-sharing Instagram app for Windows 10...

Donald Trump and   Hillary Clinton   today won the potentially game-changing New York primary and wrested back control of the US presidential race from their rivals, reviving hopes of winning the nomination outright. The win gives Clinton and Trump edge over their rivals Bernie Sanders and Ted Cruz and solidify their frontrunner status after a series of losses recently. It also resoundingly answers questions about their command of the race. Read more from our special coverage on " US PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARIES " US presidential primaries: Trump wins New York, Clinton-Sanders too close to call, say polls US presidential primaries: Trump in lead, Clinton in close fight with Sanders, says poll US presidential primaries: Bernie Sanders campaign claims huge crowd at New York rally US presidential primaries: Tensions between Donald Trump, GOP escalate into public fight US presidential primaries: Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders face off in New York Trump's win mea...