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Number of Internet Shutdowns in 2017–18 higher than previously reported: RTI In response to an RTI application filed by the Software Freedom Law Centre, the Rajasthan government’s home department revealed that there were nine shutdowns in 2017 that were previously unreported. The SFLC runs an internet shutdowns tracker based on news media reports, and has updated...     Online classifieds and e-commerce company Justdial has reported a net profit of Rs 38.5 crore for the quarter ended 30th June 2018 (Q1 FY19). Profit was marginally up 1% on a year-on-year (YoY) basis, and down 1.1% on a quarter-on-quarter (QoQ) basis. Other income stood at Rs 8.2 crore for the... The I&B Ministry has disbanded its online content regulation committee, which was set up in April, reports in the Hindustan Times and the Print say. The committee had been set up by former I&B Minister Smriti Irani. Following a cabinet reshuffle, which led to Rajyavardhan Rathore taking... In a bid to curb the artificial inflation of transactions on the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) ecosystem, the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) has decided to block transactions, where the payer and the payee account are both the same, the Economic Times reports. The NPCI, issuing... Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Twitter have announced a new standards initiative called the Data Transfer Project, which will let you move your content, contacts, and more across apps. In a blog post, Google described the project as letting users “transfer data directly from one service to... Facebook is planning to launch its own satellite called Athena in early 2019, reported by WIRED. The development was confirmed by the Federal Communications Commission and Facebook both to the WIRED. According to the social media platform, the new network will “efficiently provide broadband... SoftBank Group, in partnership with Paytm, is planning to launch a new mobile digital payments service in Japan by the end of year, reports Bloomberg. The service is expected to make extensive use of artificial intelligence for mobile payments and other financial services, the report said citing... In a response to B2B marketplace Indiamart‘s Special Leave Petition, the Supreme Court has ordered that “no coercive steps shall be taken against the e-commerce website [Indiamart] and its officials in connection with the investigation in FIR, reports LiveLaw. A complaint was lodged... We missed this earlier. B.P. Kanungo, Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India, said that the central bank favoured competition and innovation in every field including payments systems and allowing non-banks into the payment ecosystem was done to foster this. He said that the central bank giving... Bangalore-based online budget hotel aggregator Treebo is trimming its employee count by 10%. The development was first reported by The Economic Times. Confirming the development to MediaNama, a Treebo spokesperson said that the company has asked 80 people to leave, “which represents less... On July 20, the Manipur government suspended internet services in the state for five days to prevent the spread of provocative messages and videos circulating on social media. The ban came into effect on July 20 and is expected to remain in effect till July 25. The ban comes in the wake of... The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has directed 10 online food order and delivery companies to delist non-FSSAI licensed food operators/restaurants from their platform. These companies include Box8, Faasos, FoodCloud, Foodmingo, Foodpanda, JusFood, LimeTray, Swiggy, UberEats... The Indian government is delaying WhatsApp’s plan to launch its digital payment service owing to concerns over how the Facebook owned company will store user data and ‘other issues’, Bloomberg reports. According to Bloomberg, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MEITY) has... E-commerce giant Flipkart has launched a new ads platform in partnership with video streaming platform Hotstar. Developed by Flipkart,Shopper Audience Network will be used to float personalised video ads on Hotstar. It will use audience-based inputs along with Flipkart’s record of user purchase... Facebook has suspended another analytics firm that harvested data from its site and said it was investigating whether the firm’s contracts with the U.S. government and a Russian nonprofit tied to Moscow violate the platform’s policies. Crimson Hexagon has for years used the platform to gather... |
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