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Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
The social media giant has lost a lot of likes in the wake of the hate speech row. Will the company’s India chief be able to fix the damage?
At Facebook India, it’s anything but business as usual. Weeks after the hate speech row, with public policy head Ankhi Das at its centre, came to light, a senior executive from Facebook’s policy team in the country is moving on. Shelley Thakral, head of policy programmes, India, South Asia and Central Asia, is leaving the company. The timing of her exit is telling.
A request for comment sent to Thakral did not elicit a reply. Facebook did not respond to a detailed list of questions sent on 21 August.
Taking a long, hard look at India’s Internet evolution, you’d imagine …
The loan aggregator keeps sending updates on WhatsApp even to users who haven’t applied for a loan. The company is exploiting a grey area in India’s telecom regulatory framework and WhatsApp’s policies.
FY26 numbers show that Airtel is stealing a march on its larger rival on most counts and is unrelenting in its ambition, casting a cloud on Jio’s valuation.
Telecom and retail both continue with their ‘hit and miss’, while O2C delivers an unsurprisingly poor performance in Q4. This is a year RIL will be glad to see the back of.
