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India’s AI boom depends on global models. Its competition watchdog is still figuring out how to regulate them
Zepto’s pricing, Swiggy’s nudges, Amazon’s tricky buttons—dark patterns have become default UX. But with a September deadline coming, companies may finally be forced to clean up
Advertisers are paying Youtube to play ads for their target audience. But loopholes in the platform’s checks are leaking them to undesirable ones, too
But the best investing route is still shut for the retail investor
The 800-pound gorilla of Indian streaming wants to go where its rivals fear to tread: bite-sized videos
Ravneet Kaur is revitalising the Competition Commission of India, trying to shake off its toothless tiger image—but she must confront a mix of old and new challenges
Analysts sound caution at the small-cap rally as Big Tech investments are in the early stages and infrastructure is still budding
Hospitals like Apollo, HCG, and Sakra are using artificial intelligence to spot more cases in India. But the typical modern AI model isn’t ready for treatment yet
As technology upends every business, the idea of a ‘second headquarters’ is gaining steam. The more traditional the business, the more the need to set up capability centres in India
GenAI startups building large language models saw investments pour in over the past year, with six-month-old Sarvam securing support from an early OpenAI backer. But what’s the endgame?
In a saturated, competitive market, thousands of field agents working for Indian fintechs hustle daily to ensure that merchants choose their platform
The Indian government’s apparent flip-flop on social-media platforms monitoring misinformation raises more questions than it answers
The class of 2024’s motto from their job placement teams: one student, one job; internships over placements; and, more importantly, compromise
Airtel, Jio, and Vi push for "fair share". Tech giants don’t want to part with their incredible cash piles for telecom access. But the government’s decision is not likely to come before 2024 General Elections
Sex-ed and news content creators are under fire. Their reach, discoverability, and income are taking a hit. All thanks to social-media platforms curbing the wild west of content
Anant Maheshwari, who recently resigned from Microsoft India, is described as a tough taskmaster under whom revenue grew over twofold in two years. However, his style of leadership has upset some factions in the company
Nationwide groups exploit big-tech platforms to defraud users, while regulations fall short and self-governance continues
Google placed a major wager on India's biggest telco to bring 4G smartphones to half a billion people. The ambitious plan turned out to be an expensive misstep. Jio is now forging ahead with plans for 5G smartphones, and this time possibly without the tech giant
The Tata Group and the AV Birla Group are already trying to streamline operations with the Microsoft-backed AI tool. As a result, the cloud businesses of Amazon and Google are at risk of losing ground to the Redmond, US-headquartered company
Blocking third-party data tracking will hurt smaller digital entities and hand over near-monopolistic control over the advertising market to large corporations such as Google and Meta
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The Tamil Nadu government wants to deliver health services right at the citizens’ doorsteps, while the tech giant wants to tap into its health data
A GST show-cause notice to one of India’s most profitable gaming startups has caused a furore like never before. While the fate of the real-money-gaming industry hangs in balance, companies—usually at odds with each other—are trying to make amends
In less than two weeks, India’s competition watchdog will rule in two cases that will impact how Google does business in the country. And at a time when the company needs strong policy advocacy, a senior executive heading the team has quit
If Cisco and RingCentral can come, Zoom may not be far behind. But the communications tech company’s entry into the sector has left Jio, Airtel, and Vi wondering
The hit retail telecom business can’t do much for Jio Platforms’ success or valuation. With two data centres ready to launch, a 10-year Microsoft partnership is kicking in gear as Reliance begins to assemble the pieces of its crown jewel US$65B Jio Platforms
That’s the annual amount Amazon pays Indian telcos to send SMSes. Though the US e-commerce major has been lobbying India's telecom regulator for two years fearing ‘substantial financial implications’, it still finds itself paying increasing international SMS rates
In 2020, Amazon was looking to invest in Airtel. In 2021, it did serious due diligence on Vi, with the government as the matchmaker. Now that the telco is admittedly close to raising Rs 20K crore, could the Amazon-Vi match finally be made?
For a hot minute, YouTube wanted to be a creator in the mould of Netflix and Prime Video. While the closure of its Originals platform in January marked the end of that dream, it also meant that YouTube was going back to familiar grounds—ad revenue from user-generated content. But this time, its monetisation strategy has ad-free subscription plans in the mix.
For Big Tech firms, public policy teams operate in the shadows to remove all obstacles to growth. In the past, this has even entailed pushing the boundaries of ethicality. As the stakes get higher and regulators get more aggressive though, the likes of Google, Facebook, and Amazon are ramping up their public policy teams and changing how they do business
After only expanding to eight cities in seven years, Dunzo wants to reach as many as 25 within the next 18 months. All while reaching profitability. Standing in its way, though, is a murderers' row of rivals, both old and new
India’s top telco, Reliance Jio, recently announced that its low-cost smartphone would be delayed until November. Having already suffered from inventory issues, it will be a tough task to reach its target of 300 million devices sold. Especially now that Bharti Airtel is mooting its own smartphone offering
Over the last few months, Google has signed three-year deals worth millions of dollars with Indian media houses like NDTV and Indian Express. Is this Google’s way of compensating them fairly for their content or is it ensuring it won’t be forced to pay even more further down the line?
Amazon’s ad business is not only eating into the market share of rivals Google and Facebook, it’s also taking over Amazon Web Services’ role as the company’s hidden gem. And it’s doing so by using Google’s own pay-per-click strategy
PhonePe and Affle seem strapped in for a long, legal battle over the acquisition of vernacular app marketplace Indus OS. The acquisition, by most accounts, is favourable to everyone involved. What went wrong?
The Reserve Bank of India wanted entities with new ideas to take digital payments beyond 100 million. Not only does it now have a pitched battle on its hands, but the consortiums scrambling for a licence want to duplicate existing payments products
Already a feature of the US investment scene, Southeast Asian alumni networks are now banding together to offer ‘smart’ capital to fledgeling startups. And the trailblazer is, ironically, Uber, which exited the region in 2018
Google tried and failed with a public WiFi play. Facebook is still in the game but has struggled to scale. A new government programme aims to rapidly scale public WiFi, but is it enough to make WiFi hotspots viable?
US$9.7 billion is set to flow into India's data centre sector, as the lure of high valuations and rising demand for cloud services proves hard to ignore. After the gold rush, though, a mass extinction looms
Big tech has big tie-ups with Indian telcos but other countries are trying to fend them off. As regulated telecom gets into bed with soon-to-be-regulated tech, profound changes are around the corner.
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