Flipkart allegedly sold acid; Twitter bans journalists; Trump's NFT & more

It's good to see you! Check out today's newsletter and stay on top of the stories shaping the world of business, start-ups, and tech! The nextbigwhat newsletter brings you curated news, summarized for you - we save you time and deliver the info you need in your work. #RecommendedBook (to help you build, grow, and repeat) [Win at Work and Succeed at Life]( Great leaders are driven to win. Yet career wins can come at great cost to your health, relationships, and personal well-being. Why does it seem impossible to both win at work and succeed at life? Backed by scholarly research from organizational science and psychology, and illustrated with eye-opening case studies from across the business spectrum and their own coaching clients, Win at Work and Succeed at Life is Michael Hyatt and Megan Hyatt Miller's manifesto on how you can achieve work-life balance and restore your sanity. Read [ideas from the book for free]( | [Buy the book]( --------------------------------------------------------------- Instagram brings new tool that helps you regain access to hacked account Instagram unveiled Instagram.com/hacked, a new tool for reporting and attempting to fix account access issues. It also claims to be developing strategies to prevent account hacking before it occurs. The new platform provides a one-stop shop for account assistance. Users can report impersonator accounts, seek assistance in restoring compromised accounts or receive assistance if they’ve forgotten their passwords. --------------------------------------------------------------- Amazon, Flipkart get notice from Delhi Commission for Women over sale of acid On Wednesday, an acid attack against a 17-year-old girl occurred in Delhi. The DCW requested a thorough action taken report from two companies by December 20 after expressing great worry about the ease of access to acid online. A letter from Delhi Commission for Women said, “DCW has learnt that the accused bought acid through ‘Flipkart’ & that acid is easily available on ‘Amazon’ & ‘Flipkart’ which is illegal.” --------------------------------------------------------------- Download NBW app: The short news app for busy professionals Get it on [Android](| [iOS]( --------------------------------------------------------------- Uber to use Cartken’s sidewalk robots to deliver food in Miami With the intention of expanding into more marketplaces and urban regions in 2023, the robots will initially transport items from a variety of companies in the Miami-Dade County neighbourhood of Dadeland. The six-wheeled delivery robots will be produced by Cartken, an AI startup with headquarters in Oakland and a team of ex-Google engineers. --------------------------------------------------------------- Startups could contribute 4-5% to India’s GDP in five years: StrideOne report The research predicted that there will be more than 24,500 platforms registered in 2022, up from nearly 20,000 the previous year. After the US and China, India boasts the third-largest startup ecosystem in the world with roughly 61,400 registered startups. In the five years leading up to 2027, it predicted that the registration of new startups will increase at an annualised pace of 25%. --------------------------------------------------------------- US Senate approves bill prohibiting TikTok on government devices Sen. Josh Hawley introduced the bill last year, and it was approved unanimously. Before it becomes a law, the House must approve it and President Joe Biden must sign it. A separate bill that would completely ban TikTok in the US was presented by senators in both the House and the Senate the day before the bill passed the Senate. --------------------------------------------------------------- GitHub rolls out free scanning service for all public repos The service checks repositories for more than 200 recognised token types and notifies partners of potential leaks. You can also construct your own regex patterns using this service. The feature can be enabled in the GitHub security settings. Although the service will be gradually introduced, it won’t be accessible to all users until the end of January 2023. --------------------------------------------------------------- Crypto mining is now banned on Microsoft cloud services On December 1, Microsoft clarified in an update to their acceptable use policy that “cryptocurrency mining is prohibited without prior Microsoft approval.” Microsoft stated that customers must now seek formal pre-approval from the firm in order to utilise any of its online services for cryptocurrency mining in the “Acceptable Use Policy” section. --------------------------------------------------------------- 70 crore Indians to use digital platforms for transactions by 2030 A Redseer Strategy Consultants analysis stated that India currently has over 35 crore transacting users across multiple digital platforms, including e-commerce, shopping, travel, and hospitality, and that figure is expected to rise to 70 crores by 2030. --------------------------------------------------------------- Twitter is now banning journalists critical of Elon Musk Several well-known journalists’ Twitter accounts have been suspended, including Ryan Mac of The New York Times, Donie O’Sullivan of CNN, Drew Harwell of The Washington Post, Matt Binder of Mashable, Aaron Rupar of Tony Webster, and maybe more. The majority of the journalists who have been blacklisted appear to have recently written articles about Elon Musk, and they mostly cover technology. --------------------------------------------------------------- Donald Trump launches NFT collection at $99 On Trump’s Truth Social account, the so-called Donald Trump Digital Trading Card collection was released. A total of 45,000 NFTs will be created in the collection’s “initial” run, which will be minted on the Polygon blockchain. A 1-on-1 Zoom call or an hour of golf with Trump are among the rewards available in a sweepstake connected to the collection debut. --------------------------------------------------------------- nextbigwhat brings you curated news, product and tech trends across a range of industries - ensuring you save time and be the most well informed person in the room. 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