Culture & Policy Internet News Govt notifies changes to IT Rules, grievance appellate committees to be formed, social media platforms mandated to comply Last year, the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code)… Soumyadeep SarkarOctober 29, 20223 minute read
Internet News [Now restored] WhatsApp down for several users, India and US most affected Update (3:00 PM IST): WhatsApp now seems to be restored for most.… Global Staff @ The Tech PortalOctober 25, 20221 minute read
Apps Internet News Netflix rolls out Profile Transfer to allow shared users to transfer viewing data to new accounts of their own If there is one Netflix account, then at least two people share… Soumyadeep SarkarOctober 18, 20222 minute read
Apps Culture & Policy Global Internet News Instagram expands video selfie age verification option to India and Brazil Social media companies have rolled out a ton of measures to make… Soumyadeep SarkarOctober 14, 20222 minute read
Apps Internet News Netflix to roll out its ad-supported tier in select markets next month, starts at $6.99/month After a long-awaited wait, streaming giant Netflix will finally roll out its… Soumyadeep SarkarOctober 14, 20223 minute read
Global Internet News Wordline, NIPL partnership to expand India’s UPI and RuPay usage across Europe The next time you wish to travel from New Delhi to the… Soumyadeep SarkarOctober 13, 20222 minute read
Apps Internet News YouTube is finally rolling out ‘handles’ for channels and creators A handle, which is a pretty common feature across social media platforms,… Soumyadeep SarkarOctober 11, 20222 minute read
Apps Internet News Snapchat parental controls make a India debut, access through in-app ‘Family Centre’ After debuting them in the US nearly a month ago, Snapchat has… Global Staff @ The Tech PortalOctober 10, 20222 minute read
Culture & Policy Internet News Kanye West gets booted from Instagram, Twitter, over anti-Semitic posts The past week has not been a pleasant one for Kanye West,… Soumyadeep SarkarOctober 10, 20222 minute read
Apps Culture & Policy Internet News Twitter expands available options across its ‘Status updates’ test, but Twitter Blue subscribers left out This July, it was discovered that Twitter was testing a feature that… Soumyadeep SarkarOctober 4, 20222 minute read
Apps Culture & Policy Internet News Meta taken to court for circumventing Apple’s privacy rules on iOS and tracking users on Facebook One of the biggest concerns for users online, is the ability of… Soumyadeep SarkarSeptember 23, 20223 minute read
Apps Internet News LinkedIn back online after suffering brief outage LinkedIn is the place to go to for building professional connections in… Soumyadeep SarkarSeptember 22, 20222 minute read
Apps Internet News Creators on Facebook to get Creator Endorsements, ‘Rising Creator’ Labels, and more With the popularity of the creator economy on the rise, social media… Soumyadeep SarkarSeptember 21, 20222 minute read
Apps Internet News Spotify starts selling audiobooks in the US, 300K titles available at launch Audio streaming giant Spotify has shown a keen interest in audiobooks –… Soumyadeep SarkarSeptember 20, 20222 minute read
Internet News Security 18-year-old hacker claims responsibility for data breach at Uber Recent times have seen data breaches become a rather common occurrence –… Soumyadeep SarkarSeptember 17, 20222 minute read
Culture & Policy Internet News Google fails to put a stop to its record €4.34 Billion fine in the EU The crackdown on foreign tech powerhouses continues, as the behemoths are finding… Soumyadeep SarkarSeptember 14, 20222 minute read
Apps Internet News Instagram is testing an internal prototype of ‘Gifts’, a new monetization feature for creators With creators and influencers proving to be a boon on social media… Soumyadeep SarkarSeptember 14, 20222 minute read
Apps Internet News Instagram confirms it is working on a Repost feature Instagram, after being in existence for well over half a decade, is… Soumyadeep SarkarSeptember 12, 20222 minute read
Apps Culture & Policy Internet News India’s finance minister asks RBI to create a “whitelist” of all legal digital lending apps Recent times has seen India, the world’s second-largest internet market, crack down… Soumyadeep SarkarSeptember 9, 20222 minute read
Culture & Policy Internet News Instagram hit with €405Mn fine over privacy settings for children The internet, with all its benefits, has made the maintenance of privacy… Soumyadeep SarkarSeptember 6, 20222 minute read
Culture & Policy Internet News Indian IT ministry summons Wikipedia execs over vandalism of cricketer Arshdeep Singh’s page In India, the game of cricket is often termed as a religion… Soumyadeep SarkarSeptember 5, 20222 minute read
