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Meta appoints Arun Srinivas as MD and head of India operations
He will work with Sandhya Devanathan, who used to head the tech giant’s India operations before taking on a larger role leading both India and Southeast Asia
16 Jun 2025
Can WhatsApp fix its payments business in India?
The messaging giant is a minnow when it comes to payments. Relief from NPCI could be just the fillip it needs to finally take on leaders PhonePe and Google Pay.
13 Jan 2025
Meta to contest CCI ruling over WhatsApp privacy concerns
The competition watchdog fined the tech giant $25.4 million, prohibiting it from sharing user data for ads across its platforms earlier this week.
19 Nov 2024
Association representing Big Tech pushes back against OTT regulation
Bharti Airtel, Reliance Jio, and Vodafone Idea have been coordinated in their efforts to sway regulators into clamping down on OTT services.
20 Aug 2024
The forgotten lessons of Hike—Part II
We take a look at the company’s trajectory from a messaging platform to a super app and its rise to prominence.
03 Aug 2024
The Modi government’s war on encryption continues?
Governments have cocked a snook at WhatsApp’s encryption policy for years. The UK had to back down. India is taking the opposite approach.
26 Oct 2023
Meta announces new WhatsApp features for businesses; the renewed net neutrality debate
The tech giant is looking to strengthen its e-commerce push in India by introducing several business-focused features on WhatsApp + India’s telecom majors are fighting to bring online service under a regulatory framework, and they are losing.
21 Sept 2023
Meta shareholders snub proposal to assess hate speech, political bias in India
With 61.1% of votes in CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s pocket, the proposal’s advocates had little hope.
01 Jun 2023
Reliance Retail’s wins and losses with kiranas
The neighbourhood stores were to be a pillar of Reliance Retail’s industry-disrupting omnichannel strategy. But things may not have worked out exactly as planned.
28 Feb 2023
Decoding Meta India’s high-profile exits
In just two weeks, the tech giant has seen resignations of three top executives in its largest market by users.
18 Nov 2022