VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

Shaktikanta Das appointed new RBI governor : Former finance secretary and current member of the finance commission Shaktikanta Das is appointed as the Governor of Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governor. VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE

Google & Levi's Lunches : Google and Levi's Commuter X Jacquard smart jacket has gotten smarter by a price tag of $350, with advanced feature 'Always Together' mode which will prevents users from leaving their phones behind. VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE

Instagram Promotes Vishal Shah as Director of Product Management : Facebook has seen many executive retreated this year and which has some kind of public crisis virtually every week, including departures of co-founders of Facebook-owned messaging app WhatsApp Jan Koum and Brian Acton. VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE

BlackBerry, , BlackBerry, smart cities, varindia, BlackBerry reinforces its commitment to accelerate development of smart cities : BlackBerry Limited has announced its commitment to helping the private and public sectors come together to accelerate the development of Smart Cities and Intelligent Transportation Systems with a Security Credential Management System (SCMS) service. VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE

Google+ will shut down four months early - after 52.5 million users data exposed : Goggle faced another vulnerability, the last release in November introduced an API bug that was active for about 6 days, impacting 52.5 million users, and has decided to shut down the consumer version of the social network four months earlier than it originally planned. As per the planning Google+ will be no more for its users in April and it will shut down, rather than in august. Additional APIs access to the network will shut down within next 3 months. VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE

Google has acquired Where Is My Train, a multilingual app that provides live updates on trains, offering offline integration of Indian Railways and IRCTC timetables, using cell-tower information to locate trains. The app also helps coustomers zero on trains with just the source and destination or even partial train name. The search giant has not disclosed the acquisition details. Where is My Train app was founded by Five former executives of TiVo Corporation, a technology entertainment company in US. The start up has a team of about 10 members and is based out of Bengaluru. In late August, Google was reportedly in talks to acquire the company for $30-40 million. Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi was also in the edge to invest in the Bengaluru-based startup. This is Google’s second acquisition on Indian turf. Last year, the firm had acquired another Bengaluru-based artificial intelligence startup Halli Labs. Where Is My Train will leverage Google’s ‘Next Billion User...