The telecom regulator has said that there was no need to regulate communication apps such as Facebook,WhatsApp, Viber and Google, popularly known as over-the-top (OTT) players, for now, saying this isn’t the right time to come up with any comprehensive regulatory framework on this score. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai), in its recommendations […]

Amazon.com Inc. has signed up Bollywood mega star Amitabh Bachchan for its Alexa voice assistant, stealing a march over rivals Apple Inc.’s Siri and Alphabet Inc.’s Google Assistant as a country of 1.3 billion people adapts to voice-enabled internet services. “The baritone that has enchanted the Indian film industry for over five decades, will soon […]

Illustration: Rahul Awasthi This Diwali, India’s top ecommerce companies will start their market share battle with dal/chawal. Not just BigBasket and Grofers but Amazon and Flipkart, too, will kick off their festive period efforts with big sales events in the grocery space, according to brands and marketplaces ET spoke to. Amazon and Flipkart’s big grocery […]

YouTube is launching short video format ‘Shorts‘ starting in India with an early beta version in the next few days. YouTube said Shorts is a new short-form video experience right on YouTube for creators and artists who want to shoot short, catchy videos using their mobile phones. “Over the next few days in India, we’re […]

Illustration: Rahul Awasthi Despite the ban on TikTok in India, its official accounts on microblogging platform Twitter and photo-sharing site Instagram have been active since August with regular posts of its videos from the rest of the world to keep users involved in the country. The company had gone off the social media grid for […]

China seems to have something big in mind, and its recent feuds with multiple nations including the ongoing border standoff with India are perhaps just a small part of an overall big-game hunting, explosive findings from an investigation carried out by the Indian Express have revealed. More than 10,000 organisations and people in India are […]

China seems to have something big in mind, and its recent feuds with multiple nations including the ongoing border standoff with India are perhaps just a small part of an overall big-game hunting, explosive findings from an investigation carried out by the Indian Express have revealed. More than 10,000 organisations and people in India are […]

ByteDance abandoned the sale of TikTok in the United States on Sunday in pursuit of a partnership with Oracle Corp it hopes will spare it a U.S. ban while appeasing the Chinese government, people familiar with the matter said on Sunday. ByteDance had been in talks to divest TikTok’s U.S. business to either Oracle or […]

ByteDance abandoned the sale of TikTok in the United States on Sunday in pursuit of a partnership with Oracle Corp it hopes will spare it a U.S. ban while appeasing the Chinese government, people familiar with the matter said on Sunday. ByteDance had been in talks to divest TikTok’s U.S. business to either Oracle or […]

Representative image There has been a shift in spending from credit cards to debit cards during the first quarter of the current fiscal, as Indians held back on discretionary purchases and went digital while paying for utilities and groceries. According to data released by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), spending under credit cards in […]