House panel favours phased adoption of proposed digital competition law to regulate Big TechA parliamentary committee suggests a phased approach to the digital competition law. The law aims to regulate Big Tech companies. The commi...
11 Aug, 2025, 08.38 PM IST
Govt may commission market studies before bringing in ex-ante regulations for Big Tech: MoS for corporate affairsThe government might study the market before implementing the Digital Competition Bill. This bill aims to regulate Big Tech companies. A pa...
21 Jul, 2025, 07.43 PM IST
Trendyol, Baykar CEO, ADQ and Ant International to develop fintech platform in TurkeyThe four parties signed a memorandum of understanding to form a platform that would provide services including digital payments, loans, dep...
16 Jul, 2025, 09.48 PM IST
Digital Competition Law unlikely before second half of FY26The Indian government is delaying the finalization of a digital competition law until the latter half of the next fiscal year. Extensive in...
21 Dec, 2024, 02.11 AM IST
Draft Digital Competition Bill: government may hold new round of discussions with stakeholdersA final draft of the Digital Competition Bill will be released after perusal of stakeholder comments and the suggestions received by variou...
19 Jul, 2024, 08.42 AM IST
MeitY may ask MCA to keep ex-ante out of Digital Competition Bill for nowThe Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology advises excluding the ex-ante provision from the Digital Competition Bill. Stakehold...
15 Jul, 2024, 06.00 AM IST
Big Tech says ex-ante antitrust regulations will hurt innovationDraft Digital Competition Bill proposes ex-ante regulations similar to the EU's DMA, impacting user experience and innovation. Concerns ove...
30 Apr, 2024, 06.01 AM IST
Ant Group reshuffle: Han Xinyi appointed new president in biggest restructuringSome units of Ant Group will set up their own boards of directors to operate more independently, according to a source who saw an internal ...
19 Mar, 2024, 04.56 PM IST
ETtech Explainer: Why does X support proposed digital competition law while Meta, Google, Apple oppose it?The Committee on Digital Competition Law (CDCL), formed by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, had on Tuesday proposed a new digital competi...
14 Mar, 2024, 09.11 PM IST
New antitrust law for large tech firms shouldn’t stifle innovation: expertsZomato, Swiggy, Flipkart and Oyo have opposed the new regulations on digital competition proposed by a government-appointed committee. Indi...
13 Mar, 2024, 11.35 PM IST
Big Tech, few Indian entities oppose ex-ante regulation under new law; others lend their supportDigital firms including Apple, Google, Meta, Amazon, Flipkart, and Uber resisted ex-ante obligations under a new digital competition law. S...
13 Mar, 2024, 07.04 AM IST
New antitrust law may cover Big Tech with 10% India operationsDeliberations are also on to bring those digital firms that have a turnover of more than Rs 2,000 cr in India under the law even if they do...
09 Mar, 2024, 11.18 PM IST
Ensuring fair trade rules in digital markets and emerging areas like AI, biotech a challenge: MCA secyThe ministry is piloting discussions on having a digital competition law and a committee set up for the purpose has held a series of consul...
13 Oct, 2023, 08.34 PM IST
Major digital players may get advice on dos and don’tsA panel, chaired by corporate affairs secretary Manoj Govil, is likely to define systemically important digital intermediaries based on a s...
20 Jul, 2023, 06.00 AM IST
China's Ant Group launches digital bank ANEXT in SingaporeThe move marks one of Ant's biggest overseas pushes since its $37 billion initial public offering (IPO) was derailed by Chinese regulators ...
06 Jun, 2022, 12.40 PM IST
China's Ant highlights distinction between NFTs and cryptocurrenciesAnt Group put on sale two NFT-backed app images via its payments platform Alipay, and all the items quickly sold out. This, when China has ...
24 Jun, 2021, 09.10 AM IST
- 'Digital ants' army may soon protect computers against virus
As the chances of cyber attack increases, programmers have been finding foolproof protection for computers against virus.
29 May, 2011, 12.13 PM IST