Times Internet, the digital arm of the Times Group, saw its revenues jump 24% to Rs 1,625 crore for the financial year ended March 2020, the company said in its annual report released on Thursday. The growth comes as several of its offerings witnessed strong growth over the past year. Times Internet’s monthly users grew […]
Times Internet revenues up 24% to Rs 1,625 crore in FY20
Times Internet, the digital arm of the Times Group, saw its revenues jump 24% to Rs 1,625 crore for the financial year ended March 2020, the company said in its annual report released on Thursday. The growth comes as several of its offerings witnessed strong growth over the past year. Times Internet’s monthly users grew […]
Internet platforms rush to get a pie of growing Insurance market
Illustration: Rahul Awasthi India’s burgeoning internet economy is slowly warming up to the potential of its massively underpenetrated insurance market. The country’s largest consumer internet platforms – from Flipkart to Paytm – are scaling up insurance businesses with the promise of low cost, low commitment and fully digital services as demand for risk coverage rises […]
Internet platforms rush to get a pie of growing Insurance market
Illustration: Rahul Awasthi India’s burgeoning internet economy is slowly warming up to the potential of its massively underpenetrated insurance market. The country’s largest consumer internet platforms – from Flipkart to Paytm – are scaling up insurance businesses with the promise of low cost, low commitment and fully digital services as demand for risk coverage rises […]
Influencers may have to verify before pushing advertising
Illustration: Rahul Awasthi Social media influencers and digital marketers could face a bumpy ride as the onus of ensuring the veracity of claims made in advertisements could fall upon them soon. The government’s draft new guidelines targeted at preventing misleading advertisements has an entire section on due diligence to be made by endorsers. It has […]
Influencers may have to verify before pushing advertising
Illustration: Rahul Awasthi Social media influencers and digital marketers could face a bumpy ride as the onus of ensuring the veracity of claims made in advertisements could fall upon them soon. The government’s draft new guidelines targeted at preventing misleading advertisements has an entire section on due diligence to be made by endorsers. It has […]
Zomato to go public by first half of 2021, as Tiger Global, others join financing round
Deepinder Goyal MUMBAI: Zomato has roped in New York-based investment fund Tiger Global as part of its current fundraising round, the online food delivery platform’s cofounder and CEO Deepinder Goyal said in an email to employees on Thursday. The Gurugram-based firm is also on course to tap the public markets by mid-2021, Goyal added in […]
Facebook’s India policy head should step down, say civil rights groups
Civil rights groups on Wednesday said Facebook has failed to address dangerous content in India and demanded that the head of public policy there be removed. A letter addressed to Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg and his second-in-command Sheryl Sandberg wanted the social network’s India policy chief Ankhi Das sidelined pending the results of a civil […]
Facebook’s India policy head should step down, say civil rights groups
Civil rights groups on Wednesday said Facebook has failed to address dangerous content in India and demanded that the head of public policy there be removed. A letter addressed to Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg and his second-in-command Sheryl Sandberg wanted the social network’s India policy chief Ankhi Das sidelined pending the results of a civil […]
Rhea Chakraborty’s tee makes social media hyper, raises biz question
Pictures credit: The Souled Store | Collage: Photocollage.com A T-shirt, a slogan, combustible and creative partisans on social media — and maybe a smart business opportunity or a dumb business strategy. While broadcast media parsed every moment of actor Rhea Chakraborty’s arrest by the Narcotics Control Bureau on Tuesday, social media fixated on the slogan […]