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The technology news website TechCrunch published an interview on Wednesday with Bahtiyar Duysak, whom it called a 20-something with Turkish roots who was born and raised in Germany. He was a temporary contract worker in San Francisco for Twitter, the website said.

Google to launch mobile payment service in India: Report

The payment service, called Google 'Tez', will offer payment options beyond the existing ones like Google Wallet or Android Pay, the report said.

Google's Gmail down for users around the world

Google was not immediately available for comment, and it was unclear what triggered the outage, which affected users in at least India, Britain and the United States. Several blogs including TechCrunch cited an outage in Europe as well, though Reuters was not immediately able to verify that.

TechCrunch: Building an Indian MNC

In the first ever event of its kind, venture capitalist and entrepreneurs came together at the San Francisco head quarter digital media agency TechCrunch to discuss the over arching theme of building companies in India that will go global.

Facebook may copy Twitter with introduction of hashtags

Facebook Inc is looking to improve its search and indexing capabilities by adding the hashtag symbol, one of the most recognizable features of its social networking rival Twitter, according to media reports.

Facebook tests 'View Tags' cookie ad-tracking feature

Facebook is using a new feature called 'View Tags' that drops cookies to help advertisers track who saw what ad.