AI content on social media may be labelled to fight rising tide of deepfakes, misinformationIndia is mandating social media users to declare AI-generated or modified content, with platforms required to implement verification measur...
23 Oct, 2025, 06.00 AM IST
Companies hail tweaked advisory easing AI model rolloutThe revised advisory from the IT ministry does away with the provision that mandated intermediaries and platforms to get government permiss...
18 Mar, 2024, 06.00 AM IST
How short video apps are fuelling big ambitions for content creators from small townsA BMW bike and a house in Mumbai, homegrown short video apps are fuelling big ambitions for content creators from small towns. Even as plat...
10 Jan, 2024, 05.24 PM IST
Social-first content marketplace Pep secures $2.5 million from India Quotient, othersThe mobile-centric content marketplace, which was founded earlier this year, aims to democratise content across various formats and categor...
09 Oct, 2023, 04.46 PM IST
TikTok copycats on a hot tin roof: why Indian short video apps have pivoted, merged or simply disappearedThe average monthly active users (MAUs) of these apps have declined year-on-year, and so have their app installs, according to data sourced...
23 Jul, 2023, 11.06 AM IST
Weed out ‘deep fakes’, MeitY tells social media platformsThese platforms have to do so within 24 hours of getting a complaint from an individual, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Techno...
22 Feb, 2023, 07.34 AM IST
MX Takatak to merge with ShareChat’s Moj to create India's largest short video platformThe combined short video platform will have over 300M MAUs and 100M strongcreator community. MX Media and its shareholders will become stra...
19 Feb, 2022, 11.39 AM IST
ShareChat acquires SAIF Partners-backed Circle InternetCircle Internet provides locally relevant information to Indian language internet users across tier-II and -III cities and currently has a ...
24 Aug, 2020, 11.12 AM IST
TikTok alternatives are out but monetisation is still missing from the short-video app pictureThe recent ban on Chinese apps offers opportunity for developers who can match their quality. But risk investors are divided about backing ...
20 Jul, 2020, 08.01 AM IST
ShareChat sees 15 pc increase in daily average users during lockdownThe Bengaluru-based company, which has about 60 million monthly active users (MAUs), has also stepped up efforts to weed out misinformation...
12 Apr, 2020, 04.52 PM IST
Fake Covid-19 'gyaan' goes viralMisinformation on Covid-19 including home remedies, conspiracy theories, false government advisories, and misleading narratives around Chin...
06 Mar, 2020, 07.45 AM IST
'Non-English tweets are now 50% of the total’: Twitter India MDTwitter is seeing its fastest revenue growth in India in five years as the social networking platform doubles down on localising product an...
11 Nov, 2019, 07.42 AM IST
TikTok’s relentless growth in India is hitting FacebookByteDance, the world’s most valuable startup, is banking on its global product approach and user-generated content to win over the Indian m...
21 May, 2019, 12.29 PM IST
ShareChat bans 50,000 in dicey content clean-upSocial media startup takes action to keep pornographic, violent & fake content off platform.
21 Jan, 2019, 08.56 AM IST
Taken to court by ShareChat, ByteDance says Helo to new designShareChat had accused the Chinese content giant of copying its design, infringing on its copyright and indulging in unfair competition
05 Nov, 2018, 08.43 AM IST
Regional language apps all the rage, to have 250 million users in next 3 yearsAbout 250 million Indians from smaller towns and cities will come online in the next three to four years to create content and converse in ...
05 Dec, 2016, 02.01 AM IST
Sharechat secures $4m to talk in your mother tongueFunds from the latest round, led by Lightspeed India Partners and existing investors SAIF Partners and India Quotient, would be used to ext...
24 Nov, 2016, 09.06 AM IST