Myanmar's military rulers enact cybersecurity law with wide-ranging censorship provisionsMyanmar's military regime has enacted a new cybersecurity law imposing extensive controls on communications, targeting VPNs and digital pla...
03 Jan, 2025, 09.50 PM IST
Why Brazil’s Supreme Court blocked X and what it means for the platformBrazil's Supreme Court has ordered the suspension of X, formerly known as Twitter, due to its failure to comply with legal requirements. Ow...
31 Aug, 2024, 07.01 PM IST
What is Telegram and why was its CEO Pavel Durov arrested in Paris?Telegram's CEO, Pavel Durov, was arrested in Paris on allegations of enabling illegal activities on his platform. Though Durov has yet to b...
27 Aug, 2024, 03.43 PM IST
WhatsApp to war: How Cubans were recruited to fight for RussiaInterviews with many of the men plus friends and relatives, together with a trove of WhatsApp messages, travel papers, photos and phone num...
30 Sep, 2023, 04.00 PM IST
Rice export ban triggers panic-buying of food staple by Indians in the USIndia's export ban on non-Basmati white rice has triggered panic buying among the Indian diaspora in America. Hoarding quickly followed Ind...
30 Jul, 2023, 08.56 AM IST
Russia fines Telegram and Viber over war-related contentDubai-based Telegram was ordered to pay 4 million roubles ($47,525), Interfax said, and the Japanese company behind Viber was fined 1 milli...
20 Jun, 2023, 03.59 PM IST
Russia fines Wikipedia owner for failing to delete Azov battalion content - IfaxA Russian court on Tuesday fined the Wikimedia Foundation, which owns Wikipedia, 3 million roubles ($36,854) for refusing to delete an arti...
06 Jun, 2023, 03.45 PM IST
Russia fines WhatsApp for first time for not deleting banned contentAlthough WhatsApp's parent company Meta Platforms Inc was last year banned in Russia as an "extremist" organisation, the messenger app - wh...
01 Jun, 2023, 02.55 PM IST
WhatsApp faces first fine in Russia for failure to delete 'banned' contentMessenger service WhatsApp faces a maximum fine of 4 million roubles (51,500) after Russia accused it of failing to delete banned content, ...
20 May, 2023, 09.50 AM IST
Russia fines WhatsApp, Snapchat owner over data storage violations-agenciesMoscow's Tagansky District Court fined WhatsApp 18 million roubles ($301,255) and Snap 1 million roubles, news agencies reported. WhatsApp ...
28 Jul, 2022, 03.04 PM IST
Russia blocks Facebook, accusing it of restricting access to Russian mediaThe regulator, Roskomnadzor, said there had been 26 cases of discrimination against Russian media by Facebook since October 2020, including...
05 Mar, 2022, 01.50 PM IST
Russia to restrict Facebook access for 'censoring' its mediaMoscow has also increased pressure on domestic media, threatening to block reports that contain what it describes as "false information" re...
26 Feb, 2022, 11.27 AM IST
Ukraine crisis: Indian students arrive in Delhi, say followed Embassy advisoryOn Tuesday, Indian embassy in Kyiv again asked Indian students to temporarily leave the country amid the rising tensions. A group of medica...
23 Feb, 2022, 12.28 PM IST
Tata Digital's cosmetics play; Byju's acquires TynkerTwo weeks ago we reported that Tata Digital was postponing its SuperApp launch. Now, our sources tell us the company is wrapping up plans t...
17 Sep, 2021, 07.15 AM IST
We don't sell individual data, support sensible regulation: Carolyn Everson, FacebookIn an interview with ET, Carolyn Everson Facebook’s vice president for global marketing solutions discusses the various steps its taking to...
19 Dec, 2018, 11.14 AM IST
Why WhatsApp is no threat to Facebook’s dominanceUsers who want to switch platforms after Facebook's data privacy scandal have nowhere to go as WhatsApp & Instagram are owned by the social...
04 May, 2018, 10.20 PM IST
How Paytm is bracing for its biggest battle against deep-pocketed global rivalsFrom WhatsApp to Google’s Tez to Amazon Pay, deep-pocketed global challengers are queueing up for India's digital payments pie, putting Pay...
18 Mar, 2018, 10.16 AM IST