Google opposes, Fb & Twitter support self-regs in India

Google opposes, Fb & Twitter support self-regs in India

Google has grave reservations about developing a self-regulatory body for the social media sector in India to hear user complaints, though the proposal has support from Facebook and Twitter, sources with knowledge of the discussions told Reuters.

India in June proposed appointing a g...


Snapchat to pay $50k to sound creators in India

Snap rolls out parental control; plans to lay off people

Snap Inc, owner of the popular messaging app Snapchat, rolled out its first parental control tools on Tuesday, which will allow parents to see who their teens are talking to, but not the substance of their conversations.

The new feature called Family Center is launching at a time whe...


NXTDigital shareholders approve merger with Hinduja Global

NxtDigital consolidated revenues up 5% in Q1 FY23

NXTDIGITAL said on Tuesday it has maintained its performance in the first quarter of the current fiscal of 2022-23 with consolidated revenue going up by five percent year-on-year to Rs 279.1 crore, while EBIDTA stood at Rs 54.1 crores, a growth of 6 percent YOY.

Wired subscriber base...


Govt. offers indigenous 5G testbed use free to startups

Govt. offers indigenous 5G testbed use free to startups

With an objective to boost the 5G ecosystem within India and to achieve the objectives of Aatmanirbhar Bharat (self-reliant India) initiatives, the government has decided to offer the use of indigenous 5G testbeds free of cost to the government-recognized startups and medium and small  firms.


Twitter merges misinformation, spam prevention teams

Twitter users have ‘spoken’ on bots: Elon Musk

A poll by Tesla CEO Elon Musk has revealed that nearly 65 percent of his followers do not believe in Twitter's claim that less than five percent of daily users are fake/spam on the platform. Musk, who is fighting a bitter legal battle with Twitter over the cancellation of the $44 billion takeover deal, last week b...


Meta secretly testing Twitch-like platform ‘Super’

Meta secretly testing Twitch-like platform ‘Super’

Meta, the company that owns Facebook and Instagram, has been secretly testing Super, a live-streaming platform modeled after Twitch. As per ANI, Meta had reached out to influencers to test the platform, and they gave the publication information and a complete deck of slides that the business has been using to pitch the service to creators. Su...