Karnataka has decided to hold a meeting with senior executives of Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram to seek their inputs on how they can filter out “inflammatory” and “objectionable” content and prevent those from being posted on their platforms. “We plan to hold this meeting in about a week’s time,” home minister Basavaraj Bommai told […]

Reliance Industries (RIL) is in talks to acquire online furniture brand Urban Ladder and milk delivery platform Milkbasket as it looks to strengthen its e-commerce play, said multiple sources familiar with the matter. This comes at a time when the Mukesh Ambani-led conglomerate is also said to be in talks to acquire players like e-pharmacy […]

Illustration: Rahul Awasthi India’s urban professionals are reverse migrating to desktops from mobiles during the pandemic, as hundreds of thousands of them relinquish their “always on the move” tag to work from home. According to Google Trends for India, interest in queries with the term “for desktop” rose sharply starting in March, when the lockdown […]

Indian banks issued more than 16 million new debit cards during the peak months of the lockdown amid an increased demand by customers for contactless cards during the pandemic, dovetailing also the banking regulator’s directive to replace the old magnetic stripe cards with the new contactless variant. Bankers and payment experts said this — mostly […]

The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Technology will look into reports that Facebook did not pull down hateful content posted by BJP legislators on its platform as it looked to seek favours from the government. “I will look into the issues raised & of course seek to hear from those named,” Shashi Tharoor, Kerala Member […]

When VSNL launched the internet in India on August 15, 1995, optimism about the new arrival was high. Even in those days of dial-up lines, big machines and steep tariffs — when the internet’s future looked fuzzy and potential barely discovered — the world was aware of its promise. The information superhighway was supposed to […]

Tata Sons, Reliance Jio Infocomm, Patanjali, Dream 11, Byju’s and Unacademy have expressed interest in bidding for the title sponsorship rights of the 13th edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL), scheduled to start on September 19 in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), said people with knowledge of the matter. A Tata spokesperson confirmed the […]

Facebook said on Friday that Apple had declined its request to waive a 30% commission fee the iPhone maker charges apps listed on iOS devices, taking a shot at its fellow Big Tech peer as developers challenge the policy. The move is the latest salvo in a long-running cold war between two of the world’s […]

The edtech gold rush in India continues as the Masayoshi Son-led Japanese conglomerate looks to make its first bet in the country this year. Meanwhile, Amazon India is foraying into home delivery of medicines as the sector gears up for a big wave of consolidation. SoftBank may back Unacademy Unacademy is finalising a deal to […]

Illustration: Rahul Awasthi Walmart‘s e-commerce platform Flipkart has partnered with a startup backed by spirits giant Diageo to deliver alcohol in two Indian cities, according to government letters seen by Reuters, months after Amazon planned a similar foray. Flipkart and Amazon’s interest in delivering alcohol in India marks a bold move to make inroads into […]