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AMD to invest $400 million in India by 2028: Here’s what we know

US chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices said on Friday it will invest around $400 million in India over the next five years and will build its largest design center in the tech hub of Bengaluru. AMD’s announcement was made by its Chief Technology Officer Mark Papermaster at an annual semiconductor conference that started Friday in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state of Gujarat. Other speakers at the flagship event include Foxconn Chairman Young Liu and Micron CEO Sanjay Mehrotra. Despite being a late entrant, the Modi government has been courting investments into India’s nascent chip sector to establish its credentials as a chipmaking hub. AMD said it will open its new design centre campus in Bengaluru by end of this year and create 3,000 new engineering roles within five years. “Our India teams will continue to play a pivotal role in delivering the high-performance and adaptive solutions that support AMD customers worldwide,” Papermaster said. The new 500,000-square-foot (55,5...
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Google pulls down TikTok clone app from Play Store

Another TikTok-like app has been pulled down from Play Store by Google. The app called Zynn has become popular in the US, where it has been downloaded by thousands in quick time. According to BBC report, Google found the app was violating its store policies, forcing them to take it down.

This is the third app after Mitron and Remove China Apps to have been taken down from Play Store. Google hasn’t confirmed the reason for removing Zynn. But reports say the app was allegedly stealing data from other apps. The platform is basically like TikTok, but users can monetise their activities on the app. Zynn says that users signing up and asking friends to join get paid for watching videos or even sharing them with others.

Why Google possibly acted?

The money earned is sent in the form of gift cards or transferred to the person’s PayPal account. This has appealed to the users in the US market, making it a big hit with the mobile users in the country. But many users have complained that videos hosted on Zynn have been picked from other platforms. People say that publishers on Zynn are earning views out of videos made by others. And even though Zynn claims it has stringent moderation policies in place. Users are able to flout its rules without any punishment.

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Zynn is basically run by company from China called Kuaishou, which is the closest rival to ByteDance. So the comparisons between Zynn and TikTok are hard to ignore. Google has removed Zynn from Play Store but Apple is yet to take action against the app. The company has been quoted saying it is looking into the allegations against Zynn. If found breaking Apple’s policies, the app will be pulled down sooner rather than later.



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