Critics of Facebook, including the architects of an advertising boycott against the company, on Friday launched a rival oversight board to review the company’s content moderation practices. The new group, which bills itself as the “Real Facebook Oversight Board,” counts among its initial members the heads of three U.S. civil rights groups, the former president […]

Illustration: Rahul Awasthi With over 154 million subscribers, the most-subscribed channel on YouTube, T-Series, is from India. According to multiple reports, India is also the second-biggest market for YouTube after the US, both in terms of views and subscribers. Both these feats validate India’s “next billion users” narrative bandied about by many new-economy evangelists. What […]

Illustration: Rahul Awasthi Ajey Nagar is the top individual YouTuber from India, according to a recent report by financial insights hub Top Dollar. The popular comedy content creator and gamer has more than 25.7 million subscribers for his channel CarryMinati. The report lists the top YouTubers from every country and their estimated monthly income from […]

In an interaction with ET’s Samidha Sharma, Booking Holdings, president & chief executive Glenn D Fogel talks about his business, the pandemic driving growth for alternative accommodation, why it will take a long time for the travel industry to recover, and his own experience as a Covid-19 patient. Edited excerpts: We are hosting the ET […]

In an interaction with ET’s Samidha Sharma, Booking Holdings chief executive Glenn D Fogel talks about his business, the pandemic driving growth for alternative accommodation, why it will take a long time for the travel industry to recover, and his own experience as a Covid-19 patient. Edited excerpts: We are doing the ET Global Business […]

GitHub, the code-repository service used by many developers, startups and companies worldover, aims to make India the largest market from the third largest at present, said Maneesh Sharma, India head of GitHub. Sharma, who was appointed India head in February when GitHub opened its first office in the country, is doubling down on working with […]

US internet giant Google has moved the Competition Commission of India (CCI) to get an all-clear for its Rs 33,737 crore investment in Jio Platforms for a 7.73% stake and manufacture a new smartphone in India. As per the CCI filing on Thursday, Google will be making the investment into the digital arm of Reliance […]

Spotify has signed a deal with Hollywood production house Chernin Entertainment to adapt the music streaming firm’s podcast shows for films and television and sell them to other outlets, the companies said on Thursday. The deal would unite Spotify, which has more than 1.5 million podcast titles, with media mogul Rupert Murdoch’s former right-hand man […]

The central government-backed Common Services Centres (CSC) Grameen eStores exclusively servicing rural markets has done a record Rs 73 crore in sales in the months between April and August, with rural growth continuing to grow faster than urban for packaged consumer goods, CSC chief executive Dinesh Tyagi said. CSC has partnered with close to half […]

By Ashutosh Joshi and Devidutta TripathyIndia’s telecom price war is back, and this time the battle is being fought with freebies. After announcing the first tariff increase in three years in 2019, telecom carriers are offering incentives such as subscriptions to services from Netflix to Amazon Prime to win customers in a content-hungry market. With […]