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Facebook, Google, Twitter among others will temporarily not comply with Hong Kong data requests

In a rare show of solidarity, some of the biggest social media…
Meta fixes Instagram’s violent content glitch

Instagram is testing its TikTok lookalike “Reels” in India

Instagram is reportedly testing its short video feature- ‘Reels’ with a small…
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Facebook gets into education, launches a new certified curriculum in Indian schools through CBSE

Facebook has launched “Facebook for Education” initiative in India, the world’s second…
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Facebook agrees to review its hate speech controls after a prolific advertising boycott

Facebook has managed to piss off just about every single one of…

Amazon Prime Video gets ‘Watch Party’ to let you jointly stream content with family and friends

Amazon has announced a new “Watch Party” experience on its video streaming…

Donald Trump gets temporarily banned on Twitch just as Reddit bans the r/The_Donald subreddit

It is pretty much a fact now, that Donald Trump and social…

Google to bring free listings directly to its main page, building on the “more free listings” initiative

Google has been veering away from paid listings, as was announced in…

Telegram to pay $18.5 million in fines to SEC as its cryptocurrency service TON goes down

Telegram’s Pavel Durov’s plans of running his own cryptocurrency platform are officially…

Now Verizon boycotts Facebook ads, announces suspension of ads on the platform

Verizon has announced that it will be suspending all advertisements on Facebook,…

Byju’s raises fresh capital from ‘Bond’, the VC fund co-founded by Mary Meeker

Byju’s, the unicorn edtech behemoth, that has continued to reel in external…

Google will pay publishers for content that it licenses for a ‘new news experience’

For quite some time now, there have been debates around how Google…
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Flipkart introduces Tamil, Telugu, Kannada language interfaces

As urban markets saturate, ecommerce companies are increasingly looking to further spread…
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Brazil’s central bank orders Mastercard and Visa to halt money transfers through Whatsapp payments

Whatsapp’s payment service, which officially debuted through a launch in Brazil, is…
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Government warns of possible mass phishing attacks using ‘Free COVID-19 testing’ as bait

COVID-19 has, by a long margin, been one of the biggest health…

Trump’s tweet on fake news gets flagged for “Manipulated Media”, hours after Facebook removed his campaign ads

Twitter and Donald Trump seem like an abusive couple, for neither can…
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Facebook removes Donald Trump’s controversial campaign ads for going against its policies on ‘organised hate’

Facebook, on Thursday, removed a set of ads run by Trump’s re-election…
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Amazon Flex, the service that lets independent contracters deliver orders, is now available in more than 35 Indian cities

Amazon has scaled up Amazon Flex’s delivery reach to more than 35…

Twitter introduces Audio Tweets for iOS users

Twitter on Wednesday, launched audio tweets which will allow users to share…
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US Justice Department to roll back protections enjoyed by social media companies on user content: WSJ

Following Donald Trump’s dramatic signing of an executive order to curtail protections…

Jio Platforms gets another $250Mn from L Catterton, world’s largest consumer-focused PE firm

From announcing deals in days, Mukesh Ambani’s Jio Platforms has brought it…

TPG invests nearly $600Mn in Jio Platforms, total fund raise nears $13.5Bn

Continuing with its record fund raising spree, Jio Platforms has now announced…