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Personal and academic data of millions of Indian students is up for sale online More than 50 websites run by a single person are leaking expansive and exhaustive data containing personal information of students including name, phone number, email address, college name, academic qualification, year of passing or year student is currently in and so on. The students in question...     In March, the government said in response to a parliamentary question that the IT Act was in place to ‘regulate misuse of social media’. The specific question, which Minister of State for MeitY KJ Alphons answered, asked if the government was coming up with any policy to ‘check... Over 150 activists, academicians, lawyers and software professionals, among others, have written to the Justice B.N. Srikrishna data protection committee, demanding the panel to be more transparent about its deliberations. “We write to you with serious concern regarding the fact that the... P2P lending platform LenDenClub has received its NBFC-P2P certification from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), the Economic Times said. The RBI issued those guidelines last October, to register and accredit P2P lending firms that resell loans from individuals who have money to invest. Started in... Porting requests were submitted for 4.5 million connections in the month of May 2018, according to the data released by the Indian Telecom regulator TRAI. This is down 33% from the 6.7 million porting requests reported in April 2018. For the month of May, the maximum number of requests in Zone-I... Zomato’s newly launched (early July) loyalty reward points program Piggybank, which allows users to earn points for ordering food via the platform, has crossed 200,000 member sign-ups within 48 hours of its launch, the company said in a statement. One reason for sharp growth could be the... Mumbai based digital lending platform PaySense has announced that it has raised $18 million in a series B round of funding led by PayU, and two other existing investors- Jungle Ventures and Nexus Venture Partners, the Economic Times reports. PayU — which has invested in PaySense in a... In a major (and unexpected) development, the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) has asked banks to discontinue Aadhaar-based payments through the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) and Immediate Payment System (IMPS) channels from August 31st, 2018. Pay to Aadhaar is an additional... Instagram could have about 95 million bots posing as real accounts out of its billion users according to a research conducted by research firm Ghost Data for The Information. Which means, about 9.5% users of Instagram could be just bots. There has been an increase in the number of bots when... Microsoft reported net income of $8.9 billion for the quarter ended June 30, 2018 (Q4 FY2018), up 10% from the $8.1 billion reported in the corresponding quarter last year, largely driven by its cloud business for the second straight quarter. Microsoft also attributed strong growth across most... Update: Ola has now expanded the operation to its seventh city in Australia with Adelaide. The company said that it will continue its rollout in Australia, with future launch cities including Darwin and Hobart. Earlier update May 22: Cab-hailing company Ola has now expanded its operations in... Flipkart is going to face a legal trouble for weapons being allegedly sold on its marketplace. According to various media reports, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has confirmed that the weapon used in Aurangabad riots in May brought through Flipkart. Also, a case has been registered... The finance ministry, in a letter written to the chief executives of banks, has asked lenders to begin issuing near field communication (NFC)-enabled credit and debit cards to their customers, as that would enable the government to expand the use of card payments beyond merchant transactions,... The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) will only take up those segments of Telecom Regulatory Authority of India’s (TRAI) recommendations on data ownership, privacy and security that are relevant to the sector, while the remaining will contribute to Justice BN Srikrishna’s committee that... Gulshan Verma, who was the Chief Revenue Officer at Times Internet, has moved to Hotstar in the role of a Senior Vice President. The move was first reported by Exchange4Media. While Verma refused to comment to MediaNama on the move, he updated his LinkedIn to reflect it. His official role at... |
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