Pranav Dixit
Google's Latest Push To Capture The Indian Market Will Put Offline Businesses On The Internet
At an event in New Delhi today, Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced a brand-new program called Digital Unlocked, aimed at helping India’s 51 million small and medium businesses establish an online presence.
Pranav Dixit
Modi's Political Party Creates Abusive Social Media Campaigns And Breeds Internet Trolls, Claims New Book
The book titled I Am A Troll explores the relationship between the Narendra Modi-led BJP, and abusive social media accounts in India.
Pranav Dixit
Ride-Hailing Services Like Uber And Ola Are Finally Legal In India
The country has launched brand new regulatory guidelines, which include auditing the companies' algorithms for accuracy.
Pranav Dixit
Apple Is Talking To The Indian Government About Manufacturing Locally: Report
Ninety-seven percent of India's smartphones are Android — something Apple's desperately trying to change.
Pranav Dixit
Amazon Can't Make Up Its Mind Which Nude Scenes Its Prime Video Service Should Censor In India
This boob is OK. This one is not.
Pranav Dixit
Twitter Developed Its Own Messenger Product, But Killed It
The stand-alone app was intended to be an on-ramp for new users to Twitter proper.
Pranav Dixit
Amazon's Prime Video Is Now Live In Over 200 Countries
Netflix finally has a global rival.
Pranav Dixit
India's Richest Startup Founders Want To Be Protected From Foreign Companies And Business Twitter Is Livid
FYI, both Flipkart and Ola get a huge percentage of their funding from abroad.
Pranav Dixit
Amazon's New Seattle Store Will Let People Pay Without Checking Out
Enter a store, pick what you want, and walk out. It calls the system, um, "Just Walk Out."
Pranav Dixit
A Lab Accidentally Released The Medical Reports Of 43,000 People, Including HIV Patients
Some patients included in the breach are as young as 17. UPDATE: The reports appear to have been taken down.
Pranav Dixit
Facebook's Plan B To Bring Millions Of Indians Online Just Went Live
Facebook's Express WiFi, which lets rural Indians access the entire internet for a small fee, comes nearly a year after its controversial program Free Basics was banned in the country.
Pranav Dixit
Ola, Uber’s Largest Competitor In India, Adds Apple Music And In-Car Entertainment
India is Uber’s biggest battleground and Ola's newest features just turned up the heat.
Pranav Dixit
Zuckerberg: "There Is More Work To Be Done" With Fake News On Facebook
The Facebook CEO listed some concrete steps to address its fake news problem.
Pranav Dixit
Holy Shit, Indian Siri Is The Funniest Siri
We've gotta talk about this obsession with Koi Mil Gaya.
Pranav Dixit
WhatsApp Will Now Let You Make Free Video Calls
The feature will start rolling out to WhatsApp's 1 billion users around the world today.
Pranav Dixit
Uber Pushes Hard To Influence Policy In Emerging Markets Because It Can Afford To
A recent tug-of-war between Uber, Ola, and regulators in Mumbai, one of Uber's key markets, shows why the ride-hail giant behaves the way it does.
Pranav Dixit
Here’s What’s Happening At Delhi’s Hindu, Nationalist, Trump Celebration Party
Hindu Sena members took to the streets, fed laddoos to posters of president elect Donald Trump, and insisted everyone should be a nationalist.
Andre Borges
Questioning Facebook's Internet.org Altruism
Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg's public-spirited effort to bring internet access to the impoverished isn't quite as magnanimous as it might seem.
Pranav Dixit
