Funding roundup: Meesho catches Facebook’s fancy; another B2B bet for Tiger Global
Dealmaking activity was relatively muted this week as compared to the previous fortnight, when some big-ticket deals and a flurry ....
Mastercard starts deleting India data stored abroad; Paytm Payments Bank swings to profit
Global card payments giant Mastercard has now started deleting data related to Indian transactions stored abroad in compliance ....
IAN invests in hyperlocal news platform PublicVibe
Hyperlocal news platform PublicVibe has raised an undisclosed amount in a funding round led by the Indian Angel Network. IAN investors ....
Facebook and Google ask poll body not to make their exchanges public
Following requests to Right to Information (RTI), Internet platforms such as Facebook and Google have told the poll body that ....
Policy Wrap : Aadhaar now open for eKYC, RBI’s 2021 vision document sees digital payments rise
Fintech companies can now avail of Aadhaar-based eKYC In a circular dated May 9, the department of revenue, under the Ministry ....
Want to learn AI? Facebook is willing to pay up the tuition fee
Social media giant Facebook and Silicon Valley-based ed-tech platform Udacity, Inc. said they have jointly launched a learning ....
Facebook joins ex-Microsoft India chairman’s initiative for mass entrepreneurship
In a bid to help small entrepreneurs use digital platforms, Facebook has joined the Global Alliance for Mass Entrepreneurship ....
WhatsApp’s much-delayed payments service may take another five months to roll out
Instant messaging platform WhatsApp may take another five months to fully comply with payment data-localisation norms, persons ....
WhatsApp tells SC it has identified auditor to inspect payments system
After building out a system to store payment-related data in India last year, messaging service WhatsApp has now identified ....
European Commission to pilot ethics guidelines for AI
The European Commission has come up with ethics guidelines aimed at building trust while using artificial intelligence and is ....
Facebook taps AI to block abusive accounts ahead of Lok Sabha elections
Social networking giant Facebook is using artificial intelligence and machine learning to block around a million abusive accounts ....
WhatsApp is giving users greater control over group chats
After announcing that it will block automated bulk messaging and tweak features for forwards, instant messaging platform WhatsApp ....
WhatsApp Pay yet to comply with data localisation norms: RBI
The Reserve Bank of India has said that WhatsApp has not complied yet with the data localisation guidelines issued in April 2018 ....
Facebook introduces AI initiative for disaster relief, blood donations and more
Social media behemoth Facebook has announced a slew of initiatives to deliver social and inclusive growth by using emerging technologies ....
Google sets up external ethics council for AI, other emerging technologies
Alphabet Inc.'s Google has formed an external advisory council for the responsible development of artificial intelligence ....
Byju’s valuation crosses $5 bn with funding from General Atlantic, Tencent
Ed-tech unicorn Byju’s, owned by Think & Learn Pvt. Ltd, has raised $31.3 million (Rs 215 crore at current exchange ....
Facebook forays into music in India; users can now share hits in posts
Facebook has forayed into music in India, with the social media platform announcing licensing deals with T-Series, Zee Music Company ....
Facebook loses top execs as product boss, WhatsApp chief Chris Daniels resign
Facebook Inc's chief product officer and one of its earliest employees, Chris Cox, said on Thursday he is leaving ....
Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram face major global outage
Facebook Inc struggled to restore its services fully on Thursday after a 17-hour partial outage made the world's largest ....
Exclusive: Logistics startup BlackBuck to raise new round led by Goldman Sachs
Zinka Logistics Solutions Pvt. Ltd, which operates business-to-business tech-enabled logistics startup BlackBuck, is raising Rs ....
Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp to work closely with EC ahead of elections
In a meeting with the parliamentary committee on information technology, Facebook group vice-president for global policy Joel ....