RBI move to formalise debt collection may complicate recovery, say expertsIn a notification issued on January 17, the central bank said transactional calls by banks, mutual fund companies and other such financial ...
23 Feb, 2025, 08.56 AM IST
Explainer: Draft DPDP rules 2025 aim to protect citizens' dataThe Indian government has released draft Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Rules 2025 for public consultation, aimed at implementing ...
08 Jan, 2025, 12.27 PM IST
Companies, banks struggle to implement Trai's URL whitelisting normsIn a directive issued a few weeks ago, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) had asked telcos to stop transmitting messages cont...
03 Sep, 2024, 01.36 AM IST
Zerodha's Nithin Kamath explains why opening free trading accounts is bad for business, customersIt said that if there was no account opening fee to recover the cost, the business could implicitly be pressured to get a customer to trans...
27 Sep, 2023, 02.38 PM IST
Valuation markdowns hit Pine Labs, PharmEasy; Paytm’s boost to ONDC; and Netflix India under tax netContinuing with the trend of valuation markdowns at large tech companies, fintech firm Pine Labs and online pharmacy PharmEasy became the l...
12 May, 2023, 08.48 AM IST
How WhatsApp's new security feature 'Device Verification' protects your account from malwareThe Device Verification requires no action or additional steps from users to protect their account.
14 Apr, 2023, 11.37 AM IST
Multilingual, inclusive Internet must for bringing on board next 1 billion users: ExpertsThe next one billion Internet users are likely to come from countries that speak and write in languages other than English
20 Mar, 2023, 01.50 PM IST
Sachin Bansal firm denied banking licence; Musk warns Twitter deal dead without fake-accounts proofIn total, the central bank rejected six of the 11 applications it received. Of the six, four applications were for universal bank licences ...
17 May, 2022, 08.29 PM IST
Magic, brain and stocks: A lesson in playing the cards rightFlooded with all this data from multiple sources, your own interpreter is now at work. Remember that the interpreter’s job is to weave a po...
13 Mar, 2022, 12.59 PM IST
Assembly elections: Twitter vows to crack down on manipulative, misleading contentIn a blogpost, Twitter said it is implementing "significant" product, policy, and enforcement updates that have been drawn based on learnin...
25 Mar, 2021, 12.13 AM IST
In new year, Facebook junks ‘Like’ button; redesigns public pages with Q&A format for greater engagementThe social media giant announced some changes aimed at enhancing user engagement.
08 Jan, 2021, 02.00 PM IST
Facebook removes nearly 700 pages linked to Congress due to "inauthentic behaviour"Facebook said its investigation found that individuals used fake accounts and joined various groups to disseminate their content and increa...
01 Apr, 2019, 06.06 PM IST
WhatsApp is going to share your number with Facebook with new policy tweakThe policy will also take on spam more actively and use WhatsApp's integration with Facebook for better friend suggestions and drive greate...
26 Aug, 2016, 08.18 AM IST
We block 2 million calls per day for Indian users: Truecaller's co-founder Nami ZarringhalamNami Zarringhalam, co-founder of collaborative mobile phone directory Truecaller, said more than half the Swedish firm’s 55 million users a...
09 May, 2014, 05.58 PM IST
Pesky SMSes back! Unregistered telemarketers use new mobile SIM cards & message services via internetUnsolicited text messages selling everything from cheap holidays to homes are once again making a mockery of the government's bid to restri...
07 Jun, 2012, 06.36 AM IST
- Email providers coming up with extra features
Starting late Sept, there has been a flurry of activity from email providers, each trying to outdo other in providing synchronised email an...
25 Nov, 2010, 03.21 AM IST
- Line of defence
Largely, Indian SMEs today are certainly aware of the security concerns with regards to Internet usage. "These issues are too obvious to be...
05 Jun, 2007, 03.59 AM IST