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News Digest: Twitter, Nokia, Saholic, Micromax, Tata Sky & More

Twitter has announced that it will be extending its Twitter archiving service to support 12 more languages including Dutch, Farsi, Finnish, French, German, Hindi, Hebrew, Hungarian, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, and Spanish. The company had first introduced an archiving service in December 2012, allows Twitter users to download all their Tweets, including retweets from the launch of its service in 2006. Users can request for their Twitter archives from their account settings page. **** Nokia has partnered with New India Assurance to offer handset insurance plans for thefts, burglary, malicious acts, riots, among others. The company claims that insurance premium starts at Rs 50 and customers will have to pay 1.25 percent of the handset cost for the plan. The handset insurance plans are available only at Nokia branded retail stores at Delhi & NCR, Jaipur, Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Pune, Kolkata, Chennai, Hyderabad, Bengaluru and Cochin. Nokia's insurance plan will offer users with free pickup and drop services in six cities including Delhi & NCR, Mumbai, Bangalore, Hyderabad Chennai and Kolkata; Cashless service; and Standby devices and chargers. *** Saholic.com, Spice Group’s* online retail store which offers Mobiles, Tablets, Laptops & Accessories, has also partnered with New India Assurance to offer one-year worldwide theft insurance on mobile handsets, reports Business Standard. The report states that customers will have an option to pay an additional 1.5% of the handset cost as premium for the theft insurance, while purchasing the handset. The company also plans to extend this theft insurance service to other mobility products like tablets, laptops, accessories and cameras in the future. It also plans to introduce…

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