Global Smartphone Sales to Decline 12% in 2020 Due to Coronavirus: IDC According to IDC,the global smartphone market will decline 11.9% YoY in 2020, with shipments totaling 1.2 billion units. The decline will apparently be largely due to the recession brought on by thecoronaviruspandemic. As per the report, the market will decline 18.2% in the first half of the year as the macroeconomic impact of the pandemic continues to affect consumer spending....

Google Chrome Market Share Hits an All-time High on Desktops Google Chrome increased its browser market share for the fifth straight month in May. With this, the browser is now at an all-time high of 69.8 percent market share. It is still lower than the nearly 90 percent market share that Microsoft’s Internet Explorer had in 2005, just beforeMozilla Firefoxstarted climbing the charts. Chrome is on track to breach the 70 percent mark in June....

Instagram Partners with Swiggy, Zomato to Let Restaurants Add ‘Food Order’ Stickers in Stories Instagram recently gave users the option to promote small (and local) businesses by placing a sticker in their Stories. Now, the company has partnered with two of India’s renowned food delivery apps –Swiggy and Zomato– to bring a similar feature to the restaurant owners. It has debuted a new‘Food Order’ stickerthat restaurants can include in their Stories to drive sales....

Jio Subscribers Will Get 1 Year of Disney+ Hotstar VIP for Free Indian telecom giant Jio is on a roll lately. The operator’s subscriber base is increasing at a steady pace and it has already become thelargest telecom operatorin Delhi NCR. Now, the operator is teasing a new bundle for its subscribers which will offer them freeDisney+ HotstarVIP subscription for a year. It’s noteworthy that Jio has offered Hotstar subscriptions in the past as well....

Microsoft Edge Chromium Starts Rolling Out Via Windows Update TheChromium-based Microsoft Edgehas beenavailable as a standalone downloadon Windows for a while, but it has now started rolling out via Windows Update. It replaces the old, EdgeHTML-based version as the default browser on the system. In an official blog post announcing the update, Microsoft said:“This new version provides best in class compatibility with extensions and websites.Additionally, this new version provides great support for the latest rendering capabilities, modern web applications, and powerful developer tools across all supported OS platforms”....

More Than 100,000 Redmi Earbuds S Units Sold Within a Week: Xiaomi Xiaomi finally put an end to the constant pestering andbroughtthe Redmi Earbuds S to India earlier last week. These are one of the more affordable pairs of truly wireless earbuds available in India. The sub-Rs. 2,000 price tag seems to have worked in the company’s favor as Xiaomi is already celebrating a major sales milestone. Within a week of its launch, more than 100,000 Redmi Earbuds S units were sold in the country, revealed Xiaomi India MD Manu Kumar Jain in a tweet on Wednesday....

Nokia 43-inch 4K Smart TV with Dolby Audio Launched at Rs. 31,999 in India Nokia partnered with Flipkart to launch its first-ever 4K smart TV back in December last year. It was a55-inch smart TVwith a premium bezel-less design and JBL Audio support. Now, the company has today taken the wraps off the new 43-inch smart TV with 4K resolution, MEMC support, and JBL audio optimizations. Nokia 43-inch Smart TV: Specs and Features The new 43-inch Nokia Smart tv carries forward the same premium design as the 55-inch variant....