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Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
Governments have cocked a snook at WhatsApp’s encryption policy for years. The UK had to back down. India is taking the opposite approach.
It is not uncommon for Indian lawmakers to be delusional about technology. The prevailing belief seems to be that an app can solve anything. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Aarogya Setu was sold as a fix for the public health infrastructure’s failure to execute contact-tracing. In other times, apps were deemed a solution for problems faced by students at school, civic neglect bothering citizens or bad food served to paramilitary personnel.
This tendency is also visible in how the Narendra Modi-led government deals with Big Tech. It believes that if YouTube were to label channels as “fake”, it could curb …
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.
The Zoho co-founder’s attempt to build a WhatsApp competitor has captured the imagination of the nationalist Indian. Emotions aside, the most likely outcome is that Zoho’s other products will start selling more.
Beyond marginal savings for consumers, the promises held out by the GST cuts are a tall order. Maybe even delusional.
