Tie-up aims to allow people with mobile wallets to pay for international online services

Facebook is expanding its Community Help hub to better serve local communities amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The hub has already seen significant usage by those requesting food, supplies and information about local resources, as well as use by volunteers and groups willing to lend a hand. Now, Facebook is adding more features to the hub […]

Facebook is expanding its Community Help hub to better serve local communities amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The hub has already seen significant usage by those requesting food, supplies and information about local resources, as well as use by volunteers and groups willing to lend a hand. Now, Facebook is adding more features to the hub […]

At its annual Universe conference today, Microsoft -owned GitHub announced a couple of new products, as well as the general availability of a number of tools that developers have been able to test for the last few months. The two announcements that developers will likely be most interested in are the launch of GitHub’s first […]

Under different circumstances, GitHub would be hosting its Satellite conference in Paris this week. Like so many other events, GitHub decided to switch Satellite to a virtual event, but that isn’t stopping the Microsoft-owned company from announcing quite a bit of news this week. The highlight of GitHub’s announcement is surely the launch of GitHub […]

It’s an odd feeling to come from California, one of the world’s most prodigious economies where the infrastructure and public systems are simultaneously falling apart in plain view, and arrive in the tiny, landlocked East African country of Rwanda. The first thing you notice is how exceptionally clean the streets of Kigali appear. That’s because of a ban on non-biodegradable […]

Under different circumstances, GitHub would be hosting its Satellite conference in Paris this week. Like so many other events, GitHub decided to switch Satellite to a virtual event, but that isn’t stopping the Microsoft-owned company from announcing quite a bit of news this week. The highlight of GitHub’s announcement is surely the launch of GitHub […]

Hub Security, a Tel Aviv-based startup that developed a software and hardware platform for cryptographic operations, today announced that it has raised a $5 million Series A round led by AXA Ventures. Crowdfunding platform OurCrowd also participated in this round. Like most companies at the Series A stage, the company plans to use the investment […]

Facebook is expanding its Community Help hub to better serve local communities amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The hub has already seen significant usage by those requesting food, supplies and information about local resources, as well as use by volunteers and groups willing to lend a hand. Now, Facebook is adding more features to the hub […]

Zhihu may not be as well known outside of China as WeChat or ByteDance’s Douyin, but over the past eight years, it has cultivated a reputation for being one of the country’s most trustworthy social media platforms. Originally launched as a question-and-answer site similar to Quora, Zhihu has grown to be a central hub for […]

Nicki Minaj was on brand when she attended the Marc Jacobs show on closing day of New York Fashion Week this Wednesday. She showed off her toned legs in a fil coupe ruffle dress.

The bank is building a 470,000 sq ft office complex – the size of eight football pitches – by the River Clyde. There will be no redundancies amid the changes.

She covered a Celine Dion hit and landed on Team Seal during The Voice on Sunday and Brooke Schubert has revealed she lost half of her body weight prior to signing up for the show.

She donned the Vogue artist's signature cone bra look, sporting a gold one-piece in the style of her Blonde Ambition era. The piece was originally designed for Madge by Jean Paul Gaultier.

Jada Pinkett Smith opened up yet again about the status of her marriage to Will Smith. The 48-year-old said they are 'just now entering an adult relationship,' on the newest episode.

Giuseppe Badalamenti, the owner of Chicago Pizza Boss, posted his March Grubhub earnings statement on Facebook, and it showed that the delivery platform took around 70% of its $1000 earnings through the platform."Stop believing you are supporting your community by ordering from a 3rd party delivery company," Badalamenti wrote on Facebook."Restaurant owners select the services they want and only pay a commission to Grubhub when we help generate sales," a Grubhub spokesperson told Business Insider. Grubhub, which is part of the same company as Seamless, has come under fire for asking users to oppose San Francisco's order to slash its commission fees for restaurants from an average of 30% to 15%.Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.Grubhub claims to be helping local restaurants.

Mark Lennihan/AP ImagesThird-party delivery services are often seen by restaurant owners as a necessary evil.Third-party delivery platforms like Grubhub and Doordash claim to be helping restaurants through the pandemic, but restaurant owners say they're doing the opposite.Most delivery platforms charge restaurants a roughly 30% commission on every order, and restaurant owners say platforms have been slow to offer support and even pay what they owe.On Monday, Doordash announced it would slash fees by 50% through the end of May, but Grubhub is fighting a similar order in San Francisco.Business Insider spoke to restaurant data and marketing entrepreneur Abhinav Kapur, who said, "If there was ever a time to prove that you were a partner to the industry, now it would be the time to do it."Visit

The London Mayor promised a zero-tolerance stance towards abuse on social media when the police unit was launched more than two years ago, which is staffed by five Scotland Yard officers.

She returned to our screens for the Love Actually sequel last night on Comic Relief after fans eagerly waited 13 years to find out what happened to the beloved characters.

She has made sure to get some fresh air amid the coronavirus lockdowns. And this Wednesday Amy Schumer was seen taking a New York stroll with her husband Chris Fischer and their baby son Gene.

The Hong Kong-based owners of the 'Cheesegrater' and the 'Walkie Talkie' are among 10 City of London landlords looking to establish a Business Improvement District.

Julianne Hough shared that while going into lockdown without her husband: 'I don't feel lonely, but I definitely feel alone.' She is hunkering down in LA while he is in Idaho.

Priyanka Chopra looked mesmerizing in a plunging white sequined gown as she packed on the PDAs with hubby Nick Jonas at the Billboard Music Awards in Las Vegas on Wednesday.

Beyonce posed up with her husband Jay-Z at the second night of his Shawn Carter Foundation gala at a Florida casino on Saturday.

The clip, filmed in Adelaide, Australia, captures the Persian cat as she tries to climb over a white metal gate which had been installed in a doorway.

The AFL are considering a lockdown hub for players to restart the season, where players are separated from their families in a secluded location.

The food delivery services are being sued in a class action lawsuit filed Monday in Manhattan for levying heavy commission fees on restaurants that lead to higher menu prices.

With the coronavirus pandemic continuing to take its toll, footballers are looking to interact with their fanbases more and more through social media. But one appears to have overshared.

The galaxy is 85 million light years away and boasts pinwheeling arms with a bar of stars through its center. From the side it looks like a flying saucer, but is called a spiral galaxy.

The cloud sits on the outskirts of the Tarantula Nebula in the neighbouring Large Magellanic Cloud Galaxy - 160,000 light years away from Earth.

Government aims to take strategic crude oil reserve capacity to 15.33 MMT with two new facilities

Policy to boost logistics, ports and e-toll collection on anvil

However, experts believe Mumbai for all practical purposes is already an International Financial Centre

In this edition, we find out how free speech and dissent has never been welcomed in our country by any of the ruling parties, why the approval of the Hubli-Ankola railway line is not yet final, the gaps in the social security law for unorganised sector being proposed by the finance minister, the brutal and brave stories of some rape survivors, and more.

The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party's march towards a two-third majority was halted by the presence of Keshubhai Patel's party in Saurashtra and the saffron outfit suffered reverses in Chief Minister Narendra Modi's own backyard of north Gujarat.

Media reports that the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has given clearance to Railways to approach the state government regarding the Hubli-Ankola rail link, which will pass through the dense Western Ghats in Karnataka. Kanchi Kohli writes on how the orders of NGT do not necessarily imply a complete go ahead for the railway line as the seems to suggest.

Setting himself a target of a thousand trees each year, Dr Mahantesh Tapashetti has greened his neighbourhood and surrounding areas in Hubli by himself. Many residents appreciate his work, and the Forest Department has been happy to support him, supplying trees for his care and planting them each year. Shree Padre reports.

Maharashtra's Vilasrao Deshmukh-government is asking the private sector not to go about acquiring land for projects if the farmers are opposed. Shivangaon is the hypocritical face of the state government itself. Jaideep Hardikar reports.

The concrete road is a symbol of some development in this northern Bihar town, but it sits oddly with its surrounding landscape. The lack of jobs, the bane of many small towns, has affected Madhubani too, writes Kalpana Sharma.

Golfers will be okay with slashed prize money: Shubhankar Sharma

Mumbai से Bhubaneswar जा रही ट्रेन Lokmanya Tilak Express ने कोहरे की वजह से खड़ी मालगाड़ी में टक्कर मार दी और बेपटरी हो गए 8 डिब्बे.

Lockdown 3.0: With no income, Rajastani PoP statue artisan along with family face crisis in Bhubneswar

As the Karnataka government allowed liquor vends to reopen during the third phase of nationwide lockdown on Tuesday, Mysuru registered sale of liquor of over Rs 10 crore as tipplers queued up at liquor stores on day one.

Labourers hit by the Covid-19 pandemic heaved a sigh of relief as work under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) began in Hubballi taluk on Thursday. Those who returned to villages from cities have been enrolled for jobs under MGNREGA.

Ten-year-old Romu Kumari and her sister Posu, 7, will be reunited with their parents after 52 days as the lockdown kept the family apart — the siblings staying with a relative here and the parents in Rajasthan. Moved by their story shared on social media, the district administration arranged for the children to travel to Sirohi in Rajasthan by car with two people accompanying them.

A 24-year-old woman, with her four-month-old son in arms, walked nearly 15km under the blazing sun in Bagalkot district on Thursday to seek police protection from her jail-returned husband, who threatened to kill them late Wednesday.

Facebook users will now be able to help local businesses, raise funds, and find local opportunities through the Covid-19 community hub.

The gay characters are self-respecting men dead against the idea of marrying a woman out of convenience. Parental denial is also addressed head-on, and frowned upon using clap-trap dialogues.