Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), India’s largest IT services company, is now one of the world’s 100 most valuable firms by market valuation. The market capitalisation…
HAPPY HOURS
As India’s ATMs run dry, it’s déjà vu for digital payment companies
It’s a bit like November 2016 all over again for Indian digital payment companies. With ATMs in several parts of the country running dry, their…
ALL EYES
Why are Walmart and Amazon desperate to buy Flipkart?
The Indian e-commerce sector seems to have turned into a battleground for two American giants. Over the recent weeks, several news reports have suggested that…
HIGH SPEED
With IPL, Hotstar sets global viewership record for an online broadcaster
India’s growing hunger for online video streaming has set a world record. Hotstar, the country’s largest video streaming platform, has said that it has topped…
THE DAMAGE
335 Indians installed a Cambridge Analytica app, exposing the Facebook data of 560,000
India was the seventh-most affected country in the Facebook data-breach fiasco involving Cambridge Analytica (CA). On April 05, Facebook confirmed that up to 562,455 users…
BEYOND TAXIS
After food delivery, Ola is now driving into public transport
Indian ride-hailing major Ola is going all out to diversify. And this time, it has set its eyes on the massive Indian public transport ecosystem.…
INFRASTRUCTURE AND CAPABILITIES
Cambridge Analytica’s parent firm proposed a massive political machine for India’s 2014 elections
The global reach of Cambridge Analytica (CA) and its parent company, SCL Group, ranged from Southeast Asia to the US and the UK. But it…
DATA THEFT
Cambridge Analytica whistleblower names Congress as part of “all kinds of projects” in India
India’s main opposition party has become thoroughly embroiled in the Cambridge Analytica (CA) voter-manipulation scandal. On March 27, the whistleblower in the case told a…
BREACH OF TRUST?
Facebook’s complicated relationship with Indian politicians
In the wake of the voter-manipulation controversy surrounding British firm Cambridge Analytica, Indian law and information technology minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on March 21 sent…
ADDING INSULT TO INJURY
Amid the H-1B trauma, a bill proposes bringing Indian call-centre jobs back to the US
At a time when Indian techies are living the nightmare of the Donald Trump administration’s clampdown on H-1B work visas, another set of professionals, call-centre…
DREADFUL DATA
Why Cambridge Analytica was eager to play in the world’s largest democracy
The world’s largest democracy is no stranger to Cambridge Analytica (CA), the London-based company in the eye of a storm for allegedly mining the personal…
EMPATHY, FINALLY
California is fighting to keep Indian housewives out of America’s “Golden Cage”
Indian wives in the US, battling uncertainty over visa norms, seem to have found some political support in the country. Up to 15 Congress members…
