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| Oct 26, 2026 | 'Take down Rapido': Pune Police order Google, Apple to remove app over unauthorised bike taxi operations | Pune police have asked Google and Apple to remove Rapido's app from their app stores, stating that Bengaluru-based ride-hailing platform is running bike taxis in the city without the licence the state requires. Advertisment Rapido offe... |
| Sep 10, 2026 | Congress Demands India Hack-for-Hire Firms Face US Blacklist: They Hacked 1,000 Lawyers | By Jerry Owens Published: Sep 10 2026, 2:35 PM EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Flipboard |
| Aug 17, 2026 | X Published Brazil’s Election Censorship Filter in Code; India’s Secrecy Law Prevents This | By Clayton Lewis Published: Aug 17 2026, 9:53 AM EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Flipboard |
| Aug 12, 2026 | Malhotra Confirms BRICS Payment Task Force at FIBAC: FPS Linkages vs CBDC Bridge Now Formal | By Shannon Harwood Published: Aug 12 2026, 10:33 AM EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Flipboard |
| Aug 8, 2026 | India Presses Meta on Deepfake Detection; Watermark Misses Hostile Fakes | By Clark Johnson Published: Aug 08 2026, 8:57 AM EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Flipboard |
| Aug 6, 2026 | Indian Court Forces Meta, Google to Reveal Who Made Deepfakes of Cabinet Minister | By Jackie Manning Published: Aug 06 2026, 8:33 AM EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Flipboard |
| Aug 4, 2026 | ShareChat’s $10.5M AI Micro-Drama Bet Hinges on Closing One Critical Quality Gap | By Roger Satterfield Published: Aug 04 2026, 9:04 AM EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Flipboard |
| Aug 4, 2026 | India Opens Door to UPI Merchant Fees as Parliament Amends Six-Year Zero-MDR Law | By Collin Mercer Published: Aug 04 2026, 10:12 AM EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Flipboard |
| Aug 3, 2026 | Sign in with ChatGPT Launches: What OpenAI Retains Is Not What Gets Shared | By Kyle Belmonte Published: Aug 03 2026, 11:17 AM EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Flipboard |
| Aug 2, 2026 | Delhi HC Weighs Court-Mandated Age Verification for India’s 350 Million Social Media Users | By Joshua Mitchell Published: Aug 02 2026, 3:53 PM EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Flipboard |
| Jul 30, 2026 | India Child Safety Plan Would Force Every Adult To Submit Biometrics Via Aadhaar | By Kyle Belmonte Published: Jul 30 2026, 9:19 AM EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Flipboard |
| Jul 29, 2026 | India Supreme Court Demands Criminal Law for Digital Arrest, Deepfake Fraud | By Clark Johnson Published: Jul 29 2026, 7:22 AM EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Flipboard |
| Jul 24, 2026 | India Geo-Blocks Student Protest Coverage for 20 Million Followers With No Order, No Law Named | By Joshua Mitchell Published: Jul 24 2026, 6:43 AM EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Flipboard |
| Jul 13, 2026 | Meta Axed Instagram AI Feature That Generated Anyone’s Likeness Without Consent | By Jerry Owens Published: Jul 13 2026, 12:03 AM EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Flipboard |
| Jul 10, 2026 | Smart Glasses Banned From All New York Courts as LED Safety Gap Proves Unfixable | By Chase Fiorini Published: Jul 10 2026, 3:02 PM EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Flipboard |
| Jul 7, 2026 | India’s Messaging App Freeze Nears July 9 Reckoning With No Cited Statutory Authority | By Shannon Harwood Published: Jul 07 2026, 9:20 AM EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Flipboard |
| Jul 7, 2026 | Why India is concerned about WhatsApp usernames - and what it could mean for other countries | Listen 9 min New: You can now listen to articles. This audio is generated by an AI tool. BENGALURU: WhatsApp’s new username feature is designed to give users more privacy. But in India, regulators worry it could also make scams harder to sp... |
| Jul 3, 2026 | India Widens Username Crackdown to Telegram and Signal, IFF Calls It Unlawful | By Kyle Belmonte Published: Jul 03 2026, 9:48 PM EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Flipboard |
| Jun 21, 2026 | Claude Identity Verification Starts July 8: What Facial Data Anthropic Collects | By Jerry Owens Published: Jun 21 2026, 09:52 AM EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Flipboard |
| Jun 20, 2026 | India’s Telegram Ban Upheld by Court, Putting 150 Million Users and Every Encrypted App at Risk | By Adrian Parham Published: Jun 20 2026, 07:07 AM EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Flipboard |
| Jun 17, 2026 | ChatGPT’s AI Assistant Market Share Falls Below 50% for the First Time: Gemini, Claude Surge | By Richard L. Wells Published: Jun 17 2026, 10:55 AM EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Flipboard |
| May 19, 2026 | Bharti Airtel launches Priority Postpaid service with 5G slicing | Bharti Airtel on Tuesday announced the launch of Priority Postpaid, a new service that leverages 5G slicing technology. According to Airtel, this is the first such commercial rollout in India and the service will dynamically prioritise netw... |
| Feb 19, 2026 | CNBC’s Inside India newsletter: India is throwing its weight behind AI — but is there substance behind the headlines? | Monday - Friday, 11:00 - 12:00 SIN/HK | 0500 - 06:00 CET It’s a question as to how far U.S. tech giants will go to support India’s belated AI push. India faces numerous challenges to its goal of advancing native AI research. New Delhi, howe... |
| Sep 5, 2025 | Забудьте о chatGPT, следите за Niantic | Когда сегодня говорят про искусственный интеллект, почти всегда имеют в виду GPT-модели. Кажется, что весь рынок инноваций свёлся к чатам с нейросетями. Но это искажение. Пока внимание сосредоточено на OpenAI, рядом существует компания, кот... |
| Oct 23, 2024 | Citi lowers Microsoft (MSFT) stock price target ahead of earnings | As Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) approaches its fiscal first-quarter earnings report, Citigroup has revised its twelve-month price target for the tech giant, lowering it from $500 to $497. Despite the lower target, Citigroup maintains a ‘Buy’ ra... |
| Mar 14, 2024 | IB Ministry blocks 18 OTT platforms for publishing obscene content | The Ministry of Information & Broadcasting has blocked as many as 18 OTT platforms, including Dreams Films, Voovi, X Prime, Hunters, and others for publishing obscene, vulgar, and pornographic content. The ministry has also ordered bloc... |
| Mar 9, 2024 | Цифровой цейтнот: почему свежие ИБ-законопроекты не находят широкой поддержки — примеры и мнения | В мире растет число кибератак, и правительства отдельных стран принимают меры по противодействию злоумышленникам. Некоторые инициативы выглядят довольно строгими. Так, индийский регулятор обязал пострадавшие от хакерских атак компании предо... |
| Dec 8, 2023 | OpenAI taps former Twitter India head to kickstart in the country | OpenAI is working with former Twitter India head Rishi Jaitly as a senior advisor to facilitate talks with the government about AI policy, TechCrunch has exclusively learned. OpenAI is also looking to set up a local team in India. People fa... |
| Nov 29, 2023 | Site Blocking Fallout Keeps GitHub Unusable for Some Indians | Like many other countries around the world, India’s copyright law allows rightsholders to limit access to pirate sites. Major entertainment industry companies regularly obtain injunctions that require local Internet providers to block websi... |
| Aug 3, 2023 | India resurrects data privacy bill following abrupt pullback last year | Ashwini Vaishnaw, the IT minister of India, resubmitted an updated data privacy bill in the lower house of the Indian parliament on Thursday, months after introducing its last draft and the abrupt withdrawal of a previous proposal last year... |
| May 30, 2023 | Amazon is testing dine-in payments in India | After shutting down its food delivery business last year, Amazon India is now experimenting with dine-in payments. The company has initiated a limited introduction of bill payments at restaurants using Amazon Pay. The facility is currently ... |
| Jan 25, 2023 | India’s gig economy drivers face bust in the country’s digital boom | Suneeta Kohli, a female Uber driver in New Delhi, had her account suddenly disabled one evening while she was en route to pick up a rider in a southern part of the capital city. “I was reaching the destination, but it took some time due to ... |
| Dec 27, 2022 | Cabinet assigns MEITY administrative powers for ‘online gaming’ | The Union Cabinet on Monday assigned the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology the administrative authority for the ‘online gaming’ industry. This essentially kickstarts the union government’s ability to regulate betting and ga... |
| Dec 23, 2022 | Google appeals CCI ruling on Android at NCLAT | Google on Friday announced that it was appealing a ruling by the Competition Commission of India that ordered the company to stop a wide range of practices that keep Google’s position dominant in the Android OS ecosystem. The company had be... |
| Oct 28, 2022 | India passes anti-deplatforming law for social media firms | The Indian government on Friday passed an amendment to the 2021 IT Rules that would allow a government panel to overrule social media suspensions, potentially forcing platforms like Twitter and Facebook to reinstate accounts that get kicked... |
| Oct 20, 2022 | Intelligence Bureau imported hardware from Pegasus maker NSO Group in 2017 | On Thursday, the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project reported that the Intelligence Bureau imported hardware from NSO Group, the firm behind the powerful Pegasus spyware in 2017. Entrackr has been able to corroborate OCCRP’s fi... |
| Oct 18, 2022 | SpaceX applies for satellite connectivity license with DoT: Report | Elon Musk’s SpaceX has applied for a Global Mobile Personal Communication by Satellite (GMPCS) license with the Department of Telecommunications, ET reported on Tuesday. The application could allow SpaceX to launch its Starlink service in I... |
| Oct 7, 2022 | More Trouble For Google In India: CCI Orders Probe Over News Aggregation Dominance | The News Broadcasters and Digital Association said that its members are forced to provide their news content to Google to rank higher on Google search pages The CCI ordered to club the case with two other investigations into Google over sim... |
| Sep 27, 2022 | SunNXT: OTT grievance redressal not a legal requirement | A representative for the Chennai-headquartered streaming service SunNXT told Entrackr that creating a grievance redressal mechanism to complain about shows and films on streaming services in India is not a requirement that has legal force. ... |
| Sep 26, 2022 | Tamil Nadu cabinet finalizes ordinance to stop online gambling | The Tamil Nadu government on Monday announced that the state’s cabinet had passed an ordinance to address online gambling. “As the honorable Chief Minister announced on 10th June 2022 in the legislative assembly, to ensure the enactment of ... |
| Sep 2, 2022 | Platforms Are Testing Self-Regulation in New Zealand. It Needs a Lot of Work. | On July 25, New Zealand adopted a new industry-led mechanism designed to provide guidance for social media platforms to enhance safety and mitigate online harm: the Aotearoa New Zealand Code of Practice for Online Safety and Harms. The code... |
| Aug 13, 2022 | VLC Media Player banned in India? All you need to know | One of India’s most popular media players across multiple platforms, VLC Media Player is reportedly being banned in the country. The VLC Media Player website no longer works in India and users cannot download the program’s exe file (windows... |
| Jul 28, 2022 | Data Governance Framework To Enable Startups To Access Non-Personal, Anonymised Data: Govt | The policy aims to provide an institutional framework for data, standards, guidelines and protocols for sharing of non-personal data sets while ensuring privacy, security and trust: MoS The policy would enable research and innovation ecosys... |
| Jul 26, 2022 | Google launches Street View in India after years of rejection | Google has relaunched Street View, the Google Maps feature that allows users to explore an area through 360-degree panoramic street-level images, in India more than a decade after it first rolled out the service in the South Asian market an... |
| Jul 22, 2022 | Snapdeal is now available on ONDC, here’s all you need to know about the network | Advertisement E-commerce platform Snapdeal made its debut on the government-led Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC) on July 19. An initiative by the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT), ONDC aims to support ... |
| Jul 11, 2022 | CryptoDad, CryptoCats And CryptoCash: Show Me The Identity | I was listening to the interesting “Money Reimagined” Consensus 2022 panel discussion from Austin, Texas with Chris Giancarlo, Neha Narula and Emily Parker when I was surprised to hear the Honorable J. Christopher Giancarlo (who is known, a... |
| Jun 20, 2022 | Госслужащим в Индии запретили пользоваться сервисами Nord VPN, ExpressVPN и Tor | Правительство Индии выпустило «Руководство по кибербезопасности для государственных служащих», в котором запретило пользоваться сервисами Nord VPN, ExpressVPN и Tor, а также хранить файлы в негосударственных облачных сервисах (таких как Goo... |
| Jun 16, 2022 | RBI allows banks to issue Mastercard cards to new customers again | The Reserve Bank of India on Thursday announced that it would once again allow banks to issue cards from the Mastercard network to new customers, a big relief for the giant payments firm. No Mastercard cards have been issued in India since ... |
| Apr 14, 2022 | CAG Flags Concerns On Aadhaar Data Collection And Management; UIDAI’s Next Step Awaited | The Comptroller Auditor General (CAG) of India put out a 108-page audit report pointing at various issues with the functioning of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI). The issues flagged by the CAG raised questions on the au... |
| Mar 31, 2022 | Ex-Paytm employees join crypto-focused Transak as it doubles down on its India expansion plans | Advertisement Transak has hired two ex-Paytm employees to help with the company’s mission to boost crypto adoption in India. Rajat Mehrotra and Sharad Agarwal, both of whom worked with Paytm Money, will be heading the engineering and produc... |
| Mar 29, 2022 | Europe, USA to set-up Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework: What this signifies | Shouvik Das 29 Mar, 2022 The European Commission (EC) and the United States of America (US) have jointly agreed on a new data transfer and privacy policy, called the Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework. The move comes after a pre-existing... |
| Mar 28, 2022 | In sudden decision, Shopee leaving Indian market | In a seemingly sudden decision, Singaporean e-commerce firm Shopee, part of the Sea group, is leaving the Indian market, mere months after it launched here, the company told employees in a town hall meeting. “In view of global market uncert... |
| Mar 24, 2022 | Indian Govt Has So Far Blocked 320 Apps In The ‘Interest Of The State’: MoS Tells Parliament | The Indian government has in the past 22 months banned 320 mobile apps under the Information Technology Act, 2000, the Minister of State for Commerce and Industry Som Parkash said to the Parliament in a written reply. All such measures were... |
| Jan 28, 2022 | Google to invest over $700 Mn in Airtel to boost Android adoption | Google on Friday announced that it would pump in equity of $700 million in telecom operator Bharti Airtel’s business. The tech giant said an additional $300 million corpus would be invested over a five year period on “mutually agreed commer... |
| Jan 21, 2022 | India's Crypto Industry Awaits New Budget | India’s cryptocurrency ecosystem is eagerly hoping for a hint of regulation from the government on Feb. 1. Indian Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present the nation’s budget at the beginning of the month during what is considered t... |
| Jan 7, 2022 | The Inside Story of How India’s Crypto Exchanges Were ‘Inspected’ by Tax Agencies The ‘inspections’ Algorithms Ambiguity or willful evasion | The Takeaway: Tax agencies have several other crypto exchanges on their radar but expect these “inspections” to serve as a deterrent that will make the industry voluntarily fall in line. Agencies have been examining crypto exchanges’ financ... |
| Dec 2, 2021 | UIDAI working with World Bank, UN to build Aadhaar-like global identity models | Shouvik Das 2 Dec, 2021 As queries from a large number of countries thronged to the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) to build Aadhaar-like identity solution, the Indian government body is working with the World Bank and Unit... |
| Oct 14, 2021 | Online Regulation of Terrorist and Harmful Content | Global efforts to regulate the internet have increased dramatically over the past four years as government concerns about terrorist content or various other “online harms”' continue to grow. We at Tech Against Terrorism specialize in h... |
| Sep 30, 2021 | Tech giants brace for impact in India as new payments rule goes into effect | Apple, Sony, Google, Zoom, PayPal and several other tech companies as well as scores of banks have cautioned customers and partners in India to expect a surge in declined transactions as the world’s second-largest internet market’s central ... |
| Sep 28, 2021 | India plans facial recognition tool to detect faces with masks, sparking privacy concerns | A government-sponsored facial recognition surveillance system, billed as India’s largest such effort to date, is proposing to detect faces when covered with masks, or even modified by plastic surgery. According to a fresh tender issued last... |
| Sep 23, 2021 | How (Not) to Regulate the Internet: Lessons From the Indian Subcontinent | In February, the Indian government enacted the highly anticipated amendments to its intermediary liability regime. Titled the “Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021,” which we refer to as... |
| Sep 1, 2021 | Парламентский комитет Индии предложил запретить VPN, поскольку он помогает преступникам скрываться | Постоянный парламентский комитет по внутренним делам (Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs) Индии предложил индийскому правительству полностью запретить VPN. Основная претензия комитета к сервису состоит в том, что он «позволяет... |
| Aug 31, 2021 | Paytm sets up separate subsidiary for its payment aggregator business | IPO-bound payments company Paytm is looking to turn its payment aggregator business into a new subsidiary called Paytm Payments Services Limited as the deadline to adhere with the Reserve Bank of India’s payment aggregator rules looms large... |
| Aug 10, 2021 | Finally, Twitter Is Fully Compliant With India’s IT Rules | Micro-blogging platform Twitter has finally complied with the Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code, Rules 2021, that came into effect on May 25, 2021. During a hearing in Delhi High Court, attorney general secretary Chetan ... |
| Aug 10, 2021 | Amazon’s top Indian seller Cloudtail to discontinue operations next May | In a move that could be seen as a strategic retreat by Amazon in India amid increasing scrutiny by local regulators, Cloudtail India, one of the largest sellers of the American e-commerce giant, will cease operations in the country in May n... |
| Jul 28, 2021 | Equalisation levy on crypto exchanges in India will not apply to investors, according to the Finance Minister | India’s finance minister told Parliament that the tax called ‘equalization levy’ applies to e-commerce firms, not investors. Nirmala Sitharaman also disclosed that the government has no data on how many crypto exchanges are currently operat... |
| Jul 11, 2021 | Why linking Aadhaar with voter ID is a dangerous idea | Written by Vibhav Mariwala and Prakhar Misra Last month, the Election Commission of India (ECI), reminded the Law Ministry to approve a slew of pending electoral reforms. Among these was hastening the linking of voter ID cards (EPIC databas... |
| Jun 21, 2021 | Govt proposes increased liability for e-commerce companies under new draft rules | The Indian government on Monday released draft amendments to the consumer protection e-commerce rules, a move aimed at giving teeth to the existing for more stringent and effective protection of consumers’ rights. The draft rules issued by ... |
| Jun 16, 2021 | UP Police Files FIR Against Twitter, News Platforms & Journalists Over Viral Video | The Uttar Pradesh (UP) police on June 15 lodged a first information report (FIR) FIR against Twitter, media publication The Wire, and others regarding a series of Tweets that allegedly showed an elderly man being assaulted in Ghaziabad. The... |
| May 26, 2021 | Twitter To Tie Up With Razorpay For Tip Jar Feature Launch In India | Twitter India is likely to soon allow users in India to use the tipping feature on its platform to support certain types of accounts and creators. The company is said to have partnered with fintech startup Razorpay, according to an unconfir... |
| May 19, 2021 | Cryptocurrency Polygon, founded by 3 Indians, has touched $13 billion in market cap | Polygon's current (on May 19) market capitalisation is just under $13 billion. The token touched $2.14 around midnight on May 18. It was founded by Sandeep Nailwal, Anurag Arjun and Jaynti Kanani. Advertisement India may have a burgeon... |
| May 1, 2021 | A major battle over free speech on social media is playing out in India during the pandemic | As the coronavirus pandemic rages in India, claiming thousands of lives, many Indians are turning to social media to demand that the government handle the public health crisis better. And now, the government is silencing these critics in it... |
| Apr 28, 2021 | Months After Indian Gov't Threatens To Jail Twitter Employees, Twitter Now Blocking Tweets That Criticize The Indian Government | Back in February, we wrote about how the Indian government was threatening to jail Twitter employees if the company wouldn’t block various tweets that were critical of the government’s handling of farmer protests in that country. While Twit... |
| Apr 28, 2021 | Months After Indian Gov't Threatens To Jail Twitter Employees, Twitter Now Blocking Tweets That Criticize The Indian Government | Back in February, we wrote about how the Indian government was threatening to jail Twitter employees if the company wouldn't block various tweets that were critical of the government's handling of farmer protests in that country. ... |
| Apr 27, 2021 | India’s crackdown on COVID-19 posts shows the minefield beneath Big Tech’s biggest emerging market | The Indian government has ordered Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter to take down dozens of posts critical of its handling of the pandemic, per The New York Times. The takedown order targeted around 100 social media posts—including posts by p... |
| Apr 26, 2021 | India Demands Twitter, Facebook and Instagram Remove Posts Criticizing Handling of Covid-19 | April 26, 2021 2 min read India's government has ordered Twitter, Facebook and Instagram to delete posts that were critical of its handling of Covid-19, sparking outcry over censorship, the Wall Street Journal reports. The South Asian ... |
| Apr 25, 2021 | Twitter removed tweets that criticized India's COVID-19 response after the country's government asked it to do so | Twitter removed dozens of tweets at the request of the Indian government. The tweets were critical of the country's response to COVID-19, MediaNama reported. COVID-19 cases in India are spiking, and the healthcare system is overwhelmed... |
| Apr 25, 2021 | Twitter censors COVID-related tweets of MLA, Editor and more after Indian Government order | Amidst the COVID-19 emergency wreaking havoc upon India, the Indian Government has asked popular social media platform Twitter to ban 52 tweets. The selected tweets are related to criticizing of the government’s handling of COVID-19 by seve... |
| Apr 24, 2021 | India orders Twitter to take down tweets critical of its coronavirus handling | Twitter has taken down dozens of tweets in India, some of which were critical of New Delhi’s handling of the coronavirus, to comply with an emergency order from the Indian government at a time when South Asian nation is grappling with a glo... |
| Apr 23, 2021 | Delhi HC rejects PhonePe’s plea against BharatPe over use of ‘Pe’ | The Delhi High Court has rejected PhonePe’s plea to issue an injunction order against BharatPe for using ‘Pe’ in its name. According to the court’s order issued on April 15, a single judge bench of Justice C Hari Shankar held that PhonePe’s... |
| Mar 25, 2021 | Regulation: Indian Government Mandates Companies to Disclose Bitcoin Holdings | The Indian government has recently taken a step that could well be seen as its very first move to regulate cryptocurrency transactions in the country. India’s Ministry of Corporate Affairs has recently amended the Schedule III of the Compan... |
| Mar 24, 2021 | India’s antitrust watchdog orders investigation into WhatsApp’s privacy policy | India’s competition watchdog on Wednesday ordered an investigation into WhatsApp’s controversial privacy policy update after finding that prima facie, it violates the competition law. The Competition Commission of India or CCI’s order came ... |
| Mar 19, 2021 | Amazon’s delivery personnel in Pune go on strike affecting deliveries | Amazon’s last-mile delivery network in Pune has come to a grinding halt after its delivery personnel went on strike on March 16 demanding better pay and insurance cover from the company. Around 20 delivery hubs in the city have been hit due... |
| Feb 12, 2021 | Can Koo be King? Perhaps with better content moderation | Image: Shutterstock At the height of the back and forth between the Indian government and Twitter about the latter’s refusal to block accounts of journalists and activists, Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal publicly threw his weig... |
| Feb 5, 2021 | PayPal checks out of payments business in India | American online payment giant PayPal said Friday it is wrapping up its payment operations in India to focus on processing cross-border trade for small businesses in the world’s second-largest populated country. “From 1 April 2021, we will f... |
| Jan 12, 2021 | Aadhaar-Linked Digital Health IDs To Be Piloted In India’s Covid Vaccination Drive | The central government is looking at the Covid-19 vaccination drive, to be kicked off countrywide from January 16, as a way to generate digital unique health identification (UHID) numbers for citizens linked to their Aadhaar cards. In the f... |
| Dec 16, 2020 | Uber and Ola are not acting as a cartel, says India’s Supreme Court | The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled in favour of Uber and Ola in a case regarding their fare practices. Advocate Samir Agarwal had challenged the ride-hailing apps, saying their algorithm gives no freedom to drivers or riders in deciding the... |
| Nov 18, 2020 | Indian Government Official Arrested for Sexually Abusing 50 Children | Warning: This article describes issues around sexual assault. For support, reach out to Childline India on 1098 or [email protected]. India’s Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) arrested a junior civil engineer on Tuesday, No... |
| Nov 12, 2020 | India puts a leash around online streaming players like Netflix, Disney+Hotstar | For long, on-demand video streaming platforms have had the freedom to put the content of their choice on their platforms, but that has come to an end. In a notification on Monday, the Indian government said “films and audio-visual programs ... |
| Nov 11, 2020 | India’s broadcasting ministry to regulate streaming services and online content | India’s Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, which oversees programs beamed on television and screened in theatres in the country, will now also regulate policies for streaming platforms and digital news outlets in a move that is widel... |
| Sep 4, 2020 | Netflix’s Bad Boy Billionaires Investigates India’s Biggest Accused Scammers. Now, Its Subjects Are Trying to Block Its Release. | The upcoming Netflix docuseries Bad Boy Billionaires investigating four Indian businessmen with fraud allegations, namely Vijay Mallya, Nirav Modi, Subrata Roy, and Ramalinga Raju, was stalled after two separate court orders in India. News‘... |
| Aug 21, 2020 | Facebook’s Role in 2019 Indian Elections Under Scrutiny After Allegations of its Link With the Ruling Party | After a Wall Street Journal report alleging that Facebook was complicit in allowing hate speech by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), more claims of the company endorsing the ruling political party have come... |
| Aug 3, 2020 | Underage Bitcoin Twitter Hacker Charged by US Authorities Will Be Tried as Adult in Florida | Contents Head of the hacking team to be tried with two sidekicksClark holds $3 mln worth of Bitcoin According to Medianama, the U.S. Department of Justice has charged three American citizens with hacking Twitter on July 15 and setting up a ... |
| Jun 23, 2020 | Zomato partners Vodafone-Idea to conduct trial for BVLOS drones | Online food delivery major Zomato has entered into a partnership with Vodafone-Idea to conduct the experimental flights beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) drones. The development has come days after Zomato had called off the acquisition de... |
| Jun 3, 2020 | Google and Walmart establish dominance in India’s mobile payments market as WhatsApp Pay struggles to launch | In India, it’s Google and Walmart-owned PhonePe that are racing neck-and-neck to be the top player in the mobile payments market, while Facebook remains mired in a regulatory maze for WhatsApp Pay’s rollout. Google Pay had more than 75 mill... |
| May 18, 2020 | The technologies the world is using to track coronavirus — and people | This article is part of a VB special issue. Read the full series: AI and Surveillance. Now that the world is in the thick of the coronavirus pandemic, governments are quickly deploying their own cocktails of tracking methods. These include ... |
| Apr 21, 2020 | ByteDance and Falcon Edge participate in a USD 23.5 million round in Indian news aggregator Dailyhunt | Bengaluru-based vernacular news aggregator Dailyhunt has raised USD 23.5 million from existing investors including ByteDance, Falcon Edge, Goldman Sachs, and Advent Management in the ongoing Series G round. According to the documents filed ... |
| Apr 15, 2020 | Amidst privacy concerns, Aarogya Setu app crosses 50 Mn downloads | While the government-promoted Aarogya Setu app has alarmed some activists and people alike over privacy issues in the absence of any legal framework, the app has become the fastest to amass 50 million-plus downloads and hitting the record-b... |
| Apr 8, 2020 | It Will Take A Hell Of A Lot More Than Whatsapp Tweaks To Fix Our Global Disinformation Problem | With increased regulatory pressure surrounding the platform’s ability to help distribute disinformation (often to bloody and disastrous effect), Facebook owned Whatsapp this week announced it would be more tightly restricting how app messag... |
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When was MediaNama founded?
MediaNama was founded in 2008.
What has the press written about MediaNama?
Parsers VC has collected 375 articles mentioning MediaNama, among them “'Take down Rapido': Pune Police order Google, Apple to remove app over unauthorised bike taxi operations” (Oct 26, 2026) and “Congress Demands India Hack-for-Hire Firms Face US Blacklist: They Hacked 1,000 Lawyers” (Sep 10, 2026).
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Yes, MediaNama is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Nov 2, 2026.