Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the India Mobile Congress (IMC) on Tuesday. On this occasion, Prime Minister Modi gave information about many achievements in mobile network connectivity, broadband usage and optical fiber network expansion. Along with big telecom companies like Bharti Airtel and Reliance Jio, many technology related companies like Xiaomi and Qualcomm are also…
Tata Group, which does business ranging from automobiles to software, has planned to set up a semiconductor plant. Demand for semiconductors has increased in the last few years. Due to less number of companies manufacturing it, manufacturing in some sectors has also been affected. Tata Sons Chairman, N Chandrasekaran said that an announcement on setting…
The Central Government has given approval for three semiconductor units. The demand for semiconductors has increased rapidly in the last few years. Due to less number of companies manufacturing it, it is becoming difficult to meet the demand. Construction of three semiconductor units in the country will start soon. Communications, Electronics and Information Technology Minister…
Payments services provider Paytm has terminated some agreements with its payments bank unit. Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has ordered the closure of this unit of Paytm. This decision was taken due to apprehensions regarding compliance. After this order of RBI, there was a huge fall in the shares of Paytm. According to Reuters report,…
The Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) has imposed a penalty of more than Rs 5 crore on the banking unit of payment services company Paytm, which is facing difficulties. The reason for this is the violations in reporting illegal amounts sent through Paytm Payments Bank accounts. The FIU under the Finance Ministry has registered a case…
The central government has reacted strongly to American technology company Google’s decision to remove some apps from the Play Store. Information Technology Minister, Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Saturday that Google cannot be allowed this. Google had removed some apps from its Play Store on Friday. It said that these apps have not paid the fees….
American technology company Google has agreed to restore all the delisted Indian apps on its Play Store. These apps were removed for not following in-app payment guidelines. The Central Government intervened in this matter and suggested both the parties to negotiate to resolve the dispute. Telecom and Information Technology Minister, Ashwini Vaishnaw has said, “Google…
Google, one of the big technology companies, has a dispute with the country’s startups regarding fees on its Play Store. These startups had also complained about Google to the government. This matter will be investigated by the Competition Commission of India (CCI). These startups have accused the company of implementing its policy in a discriminatory…
India ranks first in the list of videos being removed from the world’s popular video streaming service YouTube. YouTube has stated in its Community Guidelines Enforcement Report for the period from October to December last year that Singapore is at second place in this list. 90,12,232 videos were removed from YouTube worldwide during this period….
Hundreds of workers are being laid off at ByteDance, which runs the social media platform TikTok. This includes a large number of workers of this firm in Malaysia. It has increased the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in content moderation and hence has taken this step. Two sources with knowledge of the matter told Reuters…