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Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
Whoever designed WhatsApp’s privacy policy notification must feel like the most foolish person on the planet right now.
A generic alert along the lines of “Hey, we’ve updated our Terms of Service/Privacy Policy, check it out here” wasn’t good enough; the approach, instead, was to present an ominous message about new data collection and sharing practices, with a demand to agree by 8 February, or else…
Little needs to be said about the immediate fallout. Panic spread across social media and WhatsApp groups as privacy advocates and the media began to point out that WhatsApp is indeed owned by Facebook …
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.
India’s second-largest brokerage by active clients wants to handle IPOs as a merchant banker. But gaining a foothold in the highly competitive sector is easier said than done.
Influence cannot be manufactured through diaspora networks, carefully branded events or political donations. It requires honesty and credibility.
