As travel and eating out resume in post-pandemic India, the love-hate relationship between hotels and restaurant owners and online aggregators of their services has come to the fore—yet again.
Earlier this year, scores of Indians flocked to Signal overnight after WhatsApp announced an update to its privacy policy. Within a fortnight, the app clocked 26.4 million downloads in the country. It was endorsed by magnates abroad and in India, including billionaire Elon Musk, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, and Indian businessmen Anand Mahindra and Vijay Shekhar Sharma.
Green card applicants can finally step out of their limbo.
The Covid-19 pandemic has given hackers a whole new set of vulnerable businesses to attack in India.
Facebook sent thousands of content moderators home due to coronavirus—and its algorithms suffered.
Indians will soon know for sure if their favourite social media influencers actually like the products they vouch for or if they’re getting paid just to promote them.
Indian startups are reaching the aspirational unicorn status much faster than before.
With India shutting its door to TikTok, its Chinese owner Bytedance has now found a new Asian home.
India was forced into a mass remote working experiment in 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic which many said would kill the office space industry—but that hasn’t really happened.
The Covid-19 pandemic has completely altered India’s ride-hailing industry—and this change is here to stay for the foreseeable future.
The Covid-19 pandemic turned out pretty advantageous for Apple in India.
The Covid-19 pandemic has set off a golden era for India’s ed-tech startups. But if current trends are anything go by, this party won’t last forever.
Two-year-old coding-for-kids startup WhiteHat Jr became all the rage in India last year when it launched a multimillion-dollar advertising blitzkrieg, flooding television screens and digital media. It was hard to miss the commercials, some of which claimed the company’s students—some as young as six—were being chased by global investors and bagging jobs at Google because of the skills they’d acquired through WhiteHat Jr classes.
The world is rejoicing over the news of 4G mobile services resuming in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) after 18 months of a government-mandated shutdown. But research shows that the damage of the move is so deep that it will take the state a while to recover.
For India’s youth, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s budget speech on Feb. 1 was mostly salad dressing and hardly any meat.
Indian startups running a one-man show are in for a treat.
Joe Biden has started delivering on his campaign promises to immigrants on the coveted H-1B visa.
The Covid-19 pandemic has changed the dynamics of many industries around the world. While some businesses are struggling to stay relevant, others are growing faster than before. But the pandemic has left India’s over $200 billion IT outsourcing industry in a rather precarious spot.
Seven months after it was suddenly banned in the country, TikTok appears to have run out of doors to knock on in India.
Struggling with the Covid-19 slump, India’s female entrepreneurs are hoping for a win with this year’s budget.
On Jan. 6, Kavin Bharti Mittal, the founder of the eight-year-old Indian instant messenger Hike, tweeted that the app was starting the new year “with a bang” by bettering its social media platform and adding gaming to the gamut. Buried in that news was the fact that the company was retiring StickerChat, formerly Hike Messenger, which the flagship product of Mittal’s company for years.
WhatsApp’s new privacy policy has sent many Indians into a tizzy, but most of them are still in the wait-and-watch mode.
Smaller WhatsApp rivals are having a moment in the sun in India after the world’s largest instant messaging app got marred in controversy over its updated privacy policy. But the reality is that WhatsApp’s craze in India is almost invincible for now.
With less than two weeks left in office, the Donald Trump administration dealt another blow to H-1B aspirants.
