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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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HalloApp: Two ex-WhatsApp employees develop this ad-free social networking app

There are several popular social networking apps available worldwide including WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram, among others. There is a new addition to the long list of social networking apps available worldwide called HalloApp. Interestingly, the new social network app is developed by two ex WhatsApp employees. The key highlight of this app is that it offers a private experience and is ad free, something that is barely found in any other social app these days.

HalloApp is already available for download. Anyone and everyone, be it an Android or iOS user can download the new private social networking app from Google Play store and Apple App store, respectively. The app is available for download for free.

What is HalloApp?

HalloApp is somewhat inspired by WhatsApp. Similar to the Facebook owned instant messaging, the HalloApp is designed for group or individual chats with friends and family members. Again, just like WhatsApp the only way one can chat with another user is by knowing their phone number. The developers claim that all chats being handled by the app are encrypted, which means, no one other that the sender and receiver of the message will be able to see the chats.

The HalloApp is developed by two ex WhatsApp employees Neeraj Arora and Michael Donohue. Arora has worked as WhatsApp’s chief business officer until 2018 while Donohue was the engineering director at the company for nine years before he left in 2019.

As for the user interface, the new WhatsApp inspired social networking app is divided into four main tabs including a home feed of posts friends share, group chats, individual chats, and settings. Co-founder Arora explains the app as “the 21st century cigarette.”

Currently, HalloApp is available for free and doesn’t charge users for using the platform. Reports suggest that the company plans to charge users for features with a subscription plan but that’s a farfetched dream right now. The 12 member company is currently running off an undisclosed amount of money that it raised from investors.

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