Mitron saw a 4x jump in downloads to 5.4 mn between April and May 25, according to data from Sensor Tower. Listed by its parent company Shopkiller.in, it has bagged a rating of 4.7 out of 5 on the Google Play Store. The news comes at a time when India user downloads for TikTok fell drastically by 48% from 35.7 mn to 18.5 mn between March and May.

Sankarlingam comes to Zoom after more than nine years at VMware, where he was most recently Senior Vice President, Cloud Services Development and Operations. Reporting directly to Zoom CEO Eric S. Yuan, Sankarlingam will oversee the company’s engineering, product, and dev ops teams.

The government on Tuesday announced opening the source code of its coronavirus tracking app, Aarogya Setu, for scrutiny by the developer community to address privacy concerns and launching a bug bounty programme for finding security flaws. Meity Secretary Ajay Prakash Sawhney said that nothing that is done by human being can be perfect by definition but several developers volunteered for the app and made it close to a perfect product.

The government hopes to leverage the expertise of top technical brains in the country to improve the platform by releasing the source code, which has been a key demand of privacy experts. The platform has been aiding frontline workers in the fight against the pandemic.

​​The report titled 'Gaming - India Story' said the Indian gaming industry currently valued at USD 930 million and is expected to grow at 41 per cent annually. By 2024, the gaming industry in India is set to be valued at USD 3,750 million, it added.

Tech to the Rescue Bennett University webinar, ‘AI Solutions for Covid’, highlighted the crucial role technology can play in preventing and mitigating health emergencies around the world

Rohini Srivathsa, National Technology Officer, Microsoft India said organisations and developers have to nurture practices to make sure AI is used responsibly as it has “broad ramifications”.