Amazon primes a Blinkit showdown; New insurance models prop upHappy Tuesday! Amazon's late but strong push into quick commerce is unsettling market leader Blinkit. This and more in today's ETtech Morni...
12 May, 2026, 07.24 AM IST
US nears $400 million settlement with TikTok on child-privacy violations: ABC NewsUS government is close to a $400 million deal with TikTok. This settlement addresses claims of child privacy breaches. The funds are report...
09 May, 2026, 08.13 AM IST
Why travellers are turning to the zodiac for vacation planningPeople are increasingly using astrocartography to guide major life choices. This practice, which maps planetary influences on locations, he...
08 May, 2026, 09.02 AM IST
Meta to release open source versions of its upcoming AI modelsMeta plans to release new AI models under Alexandr Wang, with some versions open source but certain parts kept private for safety and compe...
07 Apr, 2026, 12.22 PM IST
TikTok takes on YouTube, tests 30-minute video uploadsChinese short-video making platform TikTok is apparently testing to help users upload 30-minute videos in a bid to take on Google-owned You...
25 Jan, 2024, 02.31 PM IST
Govt has no strategy to tackle Chinese Apps duping Indians: Congress"As per RBI, there was a jump of 12 times in loans on digital platforms between 2017 to 2020. Till now, 52 individuals in our country commi...
30 Aug, 2022, 03.41 PM IST
TikTok says its U.S. traffic is going through Oracle servers, but it retains backupsIn 2020, President Donald Trump ordered ByteDance to sell TikTok over concerns it could expose the personal information of Americans to Bei...
18 Jun, 2022, 05.07 PM IST
India to permanently ban 59 Chinese apps, including TikTokThe government had banned 59 Chinese apps in June last year referring to them as being “prejudicial” to India’s sovereignty, integrity and ...
26 Jan, 2021, 05.08 AM IST
Alibaba, Jack Ma summoned by Indian court on former employee's complaintIn court filings dated July 20 and previously not reported, the former employee of Alibaba's UC Web, Pushpandra Singh Parmar, alleges the c...
26 Jul, 2020, 05.39 PM IST
India continuing to show it won't back down from China's aggression: Nikki Haley on app banA couple of days after New Delhi banned apps with Chinese links, Republican leader and Indian American Nikki Haley said that India was cont...
02 Jul, 2020, 08.21 AM IST
Top-level government panel to probe data practices of Chinese appsA central committee will conduct a detailed inquiry into the data-sharing practices of these apps.
01 Jul, 2020, 08.13 AM IST
TikTok owner ByteDance shuts down overseas news aggregator TopBuzzByteDance is currently under a U.S national security inquiry into TikTok's handling of user data, and also facing tightened scrutiny from r...
05 Jun, 2020, 01.21 PM IST
Indian apps witnessed more downloads than Chinese onesAn analysis of India’s top 200 apps by install volume, by app intelligence firm AppsFlyer, showed that 41% were developed by local develope...
26 Dec, 2019, 10.45 AM IST
Chinese apps seek excessive information from users: SurveyAt least six of the ten most popular Chinese apps ask users to provide access to camera and microphones.
22 Jan, 2019, 07.49 AM IST
How Chinese apps are making inroads in Indian small townsChinese firms have launched mobile apps directly in India to capture the next generation of internet users.
10 Aug, 2018, 11.33 AM IST
Chinese tech, media companies back desi news sitesOne of the top news apps in India on the Google Play Store, News-Dog, just like UCWeb, which is backed by Tencent’s rival Alibaba, aggregat...
13 Feb, 2018, 10.53 AM IST
China Link: NewsDog, UC News and others face govt scrutinyIndian troops on the China border have been asked to format their smartphones and delete Chinese apps that may be compromising national sec...
01 Dec, 2017, 10.58 AM IST