Roobina Mongia

As India gets excited about the launch of 5G, or 5th generation mobile networks, a few questions remain about what it means for the end customer and how it would impact businesses.

Meta Platforms Inc, the parent company of Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp, announced on Thursday that it has redesigned and rewritten its privacy policy completely for ease of understanding, including the terms of services, effective from July 26.

Parag Agrawal, 37, an IIT-Bombay graduate, has replaced Jack Dorsey as the new Twitter chief executive officer, becoming the youngest CEO in top 500 companies. The Board of Directors unanimously appointed him as the new CEO.

WhatsApp's addition of the rupee symbol in chat box and feature additions such as QR code access by the camera app are ways to enhance user adoption in India

The official Twitter handle of the Congress has been locked, the party said Thursday on Instagram, amid growing controversy over the social media platform's "selective" action over posts showing the family of a Dalit girl who was allegedly raped.

Twitter on Saturday denied a Congress claim that party leader Rahul Gandhi's account had been "temporarily suspended" by the social media platform, adding to the controversy over the removal of an image posted by the MP a day ago.

The Pegasus revelations have brought under the spotlight Apple and the apparent chink in the security on its devices.

More than 20 lakh WhatsApp accounts were banned between May 15 and June 15 in India to prevent online abuse and keep users safe, the Facebook-owned instant messaging platform said on Thursday in its monthly compliance report.

Social media giant Twitter, locked in a bitter battle with the government over the new digital rules, released its inaugural "transparency report" today - more than a month after the new digital rules came into effect.

Twitter India has appointed an Indian national as its officer for grievances redressal required under the new digital rules of the country.

WhatsApp on Friday told the Delhi High Court it would not force users to accept its controversial new privacy policy, or limit functionality for those who have opted not to accept those terms, until the government passes the Data Protection Bill

Removal of "offensive posts" by social media giants like Google, Facebook and Instagram after the government's new IT rules came into effect is a "big step towards transparency", Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said this afternoon.

Search engine giant Google removed 59,350 links from its products, including YouTube, while homegrown social media company Koo acted on 1,253 of the 5,502 community reports, their compliance reports show.

Google and homegrown social media company Koo has published their first compliance reports as per requirement of the new digital media rules. While Koo shared the report on Thursday, Google released it yesterday.

Twitter has said it has special tools to detect and remove content linked to child pornography and these tools sometimes removes the accounts linked to it.

As India gets excited about the launch of 5G, or 5th generation mobile networks, a few questions remain about what it means for the end customer and how it would impact businesses.

Meta Platforms Inc, the parent company of Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp, announced on Thursday that it has redesigned and rewritten its privacy policy completely for ease of understanding, including the terms of services, effective from July 26.

Parag Agrawal, 37, an IIT-Bombay graduate, has replaced Jack Dorsey as the new Twitter chief executive officer, becoming the youngest CEO in top 500 companies. The Board of Directors unanimously appointed him as the new CEO.

WhatsApp's addition of the rupee symbol in chat box and feature additions such as QR code access by the camera app are ways to enhance user adoption in India

The official Twitter handle of the Congress has been locked, the party said Thursday on Instagram, amid growing controversy over the social media platform's "selective" action over posts showing the family of a Dalit girl who was allegedly raped.

Twitter on Saturday denied a Congress claim that party leader Rahul Gandhi's account had been "temporarily suspended" by the social media platform, adding to the controversy over the removal of an image posted by the MP a day ago.

The Pegasus revelations have brought under the spotlight Apple and the apparent chink in the security on its devices.

More than 20 lakh WhatsApp accounts were banned between May 15 and June 15 in India to prevent online abuse and keep users safe, the Facebook-owned instant messaging platform said on Thursday in its monthly compliance report.

Social media giant Twitter, locked in a bitter battle with the government over the new digital rules, released its inaugural "transparency report" today - more than a month after the new digital rules came into effect.

Twitter India has appointed an Indian national as its officer for grievances redressal required under the new digital rules of the country.

WhatsApp on Friday told the Delhi High Court it would not force users to accept its controversial new privacy policy, or limit functionality for those who have opted not to accept those terms, until the government passes the Data Protection Bill

Removal of "offensive posts" by social media giants like Google, Facebook and Instagram after the government's new IT rules came into effect is a "big step towards transparency", Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said this afternoon.

Search engine giant Google removed 59,350 links from its products, including YouTube, while homegrown social media company Koo acted on 1,253 of the 5,502 community reports, their compliance reports show.

Google and homegrown social media company Koo has published their first compliance reports as per requirement of the new digital media rules. While Koo shared the report on Thursday, Google released it yesterday.

Twitter has said it has special tools to detect and remove content linked to child pornography and these tools sometimes removes the accounts linked to it.