India's SIM-binding rule: Impact on WhatsApp, businesses, and digital IndiaIndia's Department of Telecommunications has mandated SIM-binding for messaging apps like WhatsApp and Telegram. This move will disrupt bus...
Will Trump 2.0 be able to adapt policies faster than Chinese businesses can circumvent them?The US has removed the de minimis threshold for Chinese imports to curb the influx of cheap goods. This regulation aims to support local bu...
Don’t force-fit the Broadcast Bill into an outdated construct of cable televisionIndia's proposed broadcast Bill mandates content creators like MrBeast to register as OTT broadcasters and adhere to stringent content cert...
TikTok may be banned in the US. Here's what happened when India did itThe Chinese app TikTok may be forced out of the U.S. due to a measure that has won congressional approval and is on its way to President Bi...
‘NYT vs OpenAI, Microsoft’ will set a precedent for copyright protection of creative work used for AIHow AI generates new content, and how that impacts copyright, are also at the heart of a lawsuit that The New York Times has filed against ...
View: New IT rules are an overreach, will impact our freedoms"With the scale at which complaints regarding sedition and defamation are being filed in the country, platforms and grievance officers are ...
‘No exclusive tieup between WhatsApp and JioMart’Despite Facebook’s stake in Jio Patforms, JioMart wouldn’t have special access to WhatsApp’s ordering system, say industry executives.
WhatsApp unlikely to have exclusive partnership with any retailer or organisationWhatsApp has been in the news recently over changes in their privacy policies on sharing user data whose implementation has been delayed by...
View: The bad, the ugly & the questionable about regulating non-personal dataThe fact that competition — or even the government — can take business data away will significantly disincentivise investment in India’s te...
View: This playground stays levelFacebook is the most powerful social network in the world, WhatsApp the most used app in India, and Jio the largest internet service provid...
Indian startups may feel US net neutrality stingInvestment may move out of Silicon Valley as entrepreneurs prefer a free environment
Over 50,000 recommend full net neutrality on Government portalA huge surge in public response has pushed the number of comments on the net neutrality recommendations well past the 50,000 mark.
The Wall Street Journal to shut its India edition, downsize India operationsThe Wall Street Journal plans to scale down its operations in India, and cease publication of its Indian edition, according to a report on ...
Now, access YouTube videos offlineIn the next few weeks, YouTube users in India will be able to save videos offline and watch them anywhere, any time, without a data connect...
Delhi High Court orders 219 websites to be blocked: ReportsMediaNama, a news website, has reported that according to this order, no Google websites are listed, but many file storage and torrent webs...
Make or break for RIM: With BlackBerry 10 launch, can 'CrackBerry' make a comeback?As BB10 got delayed, the company has let Microsoft establish Windows Phone as third ecosystem. Experts say BB 10 has a truckload of obstacl...
- Bangalore cops tell Google to pull out Street View cars
Just three weeks after Google's Street View cars started driving around Bangalore, the company has grounded the fleet after an objection fr...