Apps Culture & Policy News India’s Supreme Court allows delivery of official court summons via WhatsApp and E-mail Accepting a long pending demand from the country’s legal fraternity, India’s Supreme… Upneet SinghJuly 12, 20202 minute read
Apps Culture & Policy News Amazon bans and then un-bans TikTok from employees’ mobile phones In what was the most bizzare day for the TikTok-Amazon relationship (if… Upneet SinghJuly 11, 20203 minute read
Apps Culture & Policy News TikTok parent Bytedance plans new corporate structure & overseas headquarters, publishes transparency report In a bid to firefight everything that is currently going wrong with… Sourabh HidadugiJuly 9, 20203 minute read
Business Culture & Policy News Facebook pushes “Oversight Board” launch to late fall, amid disappointing meeting with Facebook ad ban leaders In a rather unsurprising turn of events, Facebook’s “efforts” to stop the… Upneet SinghJuly 8, 20202 minute read
Apps Culture & Policy News United States “looking at” banning TikTok and the likes, says secy of state Mike Pompeo Donald Trump’s equally vocal counterpart, the U.S Secretary of State Mike Pompeo,… Chinni SinghJuly 7, 20202 minute read
Culture & Policy Internet News 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… Upneet SinghJuly 7, 20203 minute read
Culture & Policy Internet News 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… Upneet SinghJuly 6, 20202 minute read
Culture & Policy Gaming News PlayStation joins the #StopHateForProfit campaign against Facebook, suspends all paid/non-paid activity on the platform Joining an ever growing list of large tech companies pulling out of… Chinni SinghJuly 3, 20202 minute read
Google postpones opening of U.S. office as COVID-19 infections continue to rise Google has announced that it will be postponing reopening of its U.S.… Samridhi SharmaJuly 2, 20202 minute read
Culture & Policy Internet News 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… Upneet SinghJuly 1, 20202 minute read
Culture & Policy Internet News 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… Upneet SinghJune 30, 20203 minute read
Apps Culture & Policy News Tiktok, Cam Scanner among 59 China-based apps banned in India due to data security issues Amid rising anti China sentiment in the country, Indian government has decided… Upneet SinghJune 29, 20202 minute read
Culture & Policy News Donald Trump signs executive order temporarily restricting work visas for H1-B holders On 23rd June 2020, US President Donald Trump signed a “Proclamation Suspending… Chinni SinghJune 23, 20202 minute read
Culture & Policy Internet News 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… Upneet SinghJune 19, 20202 minute read
Culture & Policy Internet News 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… Chinni SinghJune 19, 20203 minute read
Apps Culture & Policy News Facebook to add option for turning political ads off in light of U.S. Elections After Cambridge Analytica, everyone was shocked when Facebook said that not only… Upneet SinghJune 17, 20202 minute read
Culture & Policy Internet News 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… Staff@The Tech PortalJune 17, 20202 minute read
Culture & Policy News Apple’s Inclusion and Diversity head Christie Smith departs amid civil unrest in the US over racial killings Apple’s head of diversity and inclusion, Christie Smith is reportedly leaving Apple… Chinni SinghJune 17, 20202 minute read
Culture & Policy News Startups PaisaBazaar lays off over half of its employees PaisaBazaar, the digital lending unit of PolicyBazaar recently said that it has… Chinni SinghJune 16, 20202 minute read
Apps Culture & Policy News Instagram announces a ton of new special features to support the LGBTQIA+ community during Pride Month Instagram has today announced a slew of new features on for its… Upneet SinghJune 12, 20202 minute read
Business Culture & Policy News IBM will exit facial recognition business to oppose police brutality and racial profiling IBM has announced that it will be quitting its facial recognition business… Upneet SinghJune 9, 20202 minute read