Tag: Digital

Upcoming Digital India Bill may reinforce TRAI’s net neutrality regulations

The framework provides for using cross-sector cooperation in carrying out RS testing with the help of other ministries and agencies.(Image source: News18)

The bill may make it mandatory for intermediaries to comply with the Prohibition of Discriminatory Tariffs for Data Services, a piece of regulation that was brought in by TRAI to uphold net neutrality principles in India.

Google is 25 and searching for the next big thing!

The court imposed a Rs 1 lakh fine on Google for providing inaccurate information and failing to disclose details about the European Patent Office's rejection of the patent application. (Representative Image: Lauren Edvalson via Unsplash)

As Google completes 25 years of innovation and growth, Storyboard18 looks at some of the milestones achieved by Google by flipping its history pages.

Indian start-up founders urge government to preserve net neutrality and foster digital India

The letter said if ISPs—which now includes telecom operators—are allowed to strike deals that favour some online services over their competitors it will prevent promising start-ups from using the Internet and end all of them flourishing. (Representative Image: Glenn Carstens-Peters via Unsplash)

According to the startups, if internet-enabled start-ups or online service providers had to first obtain a government license, or pay each Internet Service Provider (ISP) in the world—there are tens of thousands of them—this global market and competition, and the innovation and progress, would all disappear.

DNPA to push for fair revenue sharing with tech giants ahead of India’s Digital India Bill 2023

43 percent of organisations did not provide a clear reason for which personal data was shared with third-party data processors. (Representative Image: Franck via Unsplash)

It hopes that the Bill will contain a bargaining code, which would ensure them a fair share of revenue generated by tech companies through the hosting of news content.

More businesses use WhatsApp now in India, says Meta India VP Sandhya Devanathan

Jio Platforms announced on Monday had announced the launch of the first-ever end-to-end shopping experience on WhatsApp in collaboration with Meta Platforms. Calling it a “global first”, Reliance said in a statement that JioMart on WhatsApp will allow users in India, including those who have never shopped online before, to seamlessly browse through JioMart’s entire grocery catalogue, add items to their cart, and make the payment to complete the purchase — all without leaving the WhatsApp chat.

“Globally, I think we have 200 million businesses on WhatsApp, using our WhatsApp business messaging app. So you see this organic behaviour translate to not just users, but also what businesses do on our platform,” Sandhya Devanathan said.

Age limit should be imposed for usage of social media: Karnataka HC

The counsel of the microblogging platform argued that the ministry had not informed the users about blocking their tweets and accounts and the platform was forbidden from informing them. (Representative Image: Austin Distel via Unsplash)

The High Court observed that ‘children may be 17 or 18 but do they have the maturity to judge what is or is not in the interest of the nation?’

Google begins automatic migration from Universal Analytics to Google Analytics 4

. Philipp Schindler, Google’s senior vice president and chief business officer, stated that recent organizational restructures were geared towards enhancing the efficiency of its services, as per reports (Representative Image: charlesdeluvio via Unsplash)

Since July 1, Google has been replacing Universal Analytics with Google Analytics 4, its upgraded version. And, since that date, the properties of Universal Analytics stopped processing data.

MAdtech Point: Chaos theory, its relevance in MAdTech and the New PII

Privacy regulations are redefining the way consumers are discovered and engaged, particularly when it comes to securing and managing consumer consent. The power is shifting back to the consumer and the advancement in technology is driving a new set of innovations including the tokenization of consumer engagement. (Representative Image: Alexander Sinn via Unsplash)

While AdTech is about inventories, MarTech is always about identities. And the twain never met; not sure it will, even though the industry is calling out for its integration, writes our columnist Gowthaman Ragothaman.