Tech giants should stop treating India like third-world country: Paytm s Vijay Shekhar
Referring to WhatsApp s new privacy policy and the company s recent frontpage newspaper ads about user s privacy, Sharma said, Why does Europe get a policy and India only a newspaper advertisement?
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Paytm Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Vijay Shekhar Sharma
US-based big tech companies must stop treating India like a Third-World market as it is the largest consumer base for such companies, said Paytm Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Vijay Shekhar Sharma. It feels bad to be treated like a Third-World country, when we are, in fact, the largest consumer internet market in the world, Sharma told The Economic Times at the launch of Paytm Money s futures and options services.
Nokia on Thursday partnered with Alphabet s Google Cloud unit to build 5G core network infrastructure and allow business customers to offer services such as smart retail and automated manufacturing. Cloud computing units of big technology companies such as Microsoft and Amazon are also tying up with telecoms vendors ahead of deployment of 5G infrastructure to corner a share in new businesses the new technology might enable. While Nokia will bring its 5G expertise, Google Cloud will serve as the platform for launching applications and assist customers in building an ecosystem of services. We will start to see some of these things to get in the live environment by end of this year, Amol Phadke, Managing Director at Google Cloud told Reuters.
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(Photo : Clker-Free-Vector-Images/Pixabay) Parler an online app was banned and censored by big tech as it was accused of fostering violence on its platform. Prior to this platform, like Twitter and Facebook weren’t censoring leftist posts only conservatives were affected.
Parler, an online app, was banned and censored by a big tech allegedly fostering violence on its platform. Before this, platforms like Twitter and Facebook weren t editing leftist posts; only conservatives were affected.
The free-speech platform got shut down last Monday after several big media companies that include Amazon, Apple, Google saying the app violated their rules.
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BENGALURU: A group of Indian startups and investors have joined forces to form a new alliance Atmanirbhar Digital India Foundation (ADIF) to break the dominance of foreign internet giants like Google and Facebook. This body hopes to also advise the government and sector regulators on legal and policy frameworks needed to further grow the digital economy.
ADIF s formation comes following the furore over Google s billing policy in India, which demanded a 30% share of in-app purchase amounts. While Google delayed the implementation of the policy in India, it led to local internet firms joining forces against the BigTech firms. The billing issue reached the government and competition regulator CCI opened a probe against the billing policy and its alleged partial treatment of its payments unit Google Pay. The probe is under way.