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Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
With the DPI export, India gets to extend its soft power and create new opportunities for companies. But what if this technology, already marred with safety and privacy issues, falls into the wrong hands?
Last week, Google announced that it is bringing India’s digital public infrastructure (DPI) to the world by launching a deployable “DPI in a box” on Google Cloud.
Essentially, this will help other countries develop their own versions of Aadhaar and other Indian DPI technologies. Indian DPI has already found its way to some countries. For instance, the United Arab Emirates and Sri Lanka have adopted the united payments interface.
The initiative by the tech giant seems to be a result of the US-India Global Digital Development Partnership announced after prime minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the United States this year. …
The newly announced levy on UPI payments undermines the very foundation of using digital payments for stock market investing. Brokers are in a tizzy.
Delhi High Court takes aim at the search giant’s AdWords model, ruling that keyword bidding on trademarks constitutes infringement.
The regulator’s proposals to introduce checks and safety features in instant payments, if implemented, may end up testing banks.
