Twitter to confirm new accounts in spam fight
Twitter to confirm new accounts in spam fight
Twitter has said it will begin asking for email addresses or phone numbers to confirm new accounts as part of a battle against manipulation, ...
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Texts that trigger lynching: WhatsApp struggles with incendiary messages in India
Texts that trigger lynching: WhatsApp struggles with incendiary messages in India
Stepping up education efforts for false news: WhatsApp
Payments services: WhatsApp to offer 24-hr customer support
Payments services: WhatsApp to offer 24-hr customer support
Press Trust of India WhatsApp is working on setting up a 24-hour customer support for users of its payments services, slated to be rolled out in India ...
Fake news proving deadly in India: BBC
Fake news proving deadly in India: BBC
Fake news spread instantaneously over WhatsApp chat groups and Facebook is causing a firestorm in India and resulting in the loss of lives, warns the ...
YouTube offers creators new ways to earn
YouTube offers creators new ways to earn
YouTube, often criticized for not compensating creators well enough, will allow them to set up paid channel memberships, the company said ...
PIB’s official YouTube channel unblocked
PIB’s official YouTube channel unblocked
Misses Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Yoga Day event
Instagram expands into long videos, will compete with YouTube
Instagram expands into long videos, will compete with YouTube
It also becomes the fourth Facebook owned platform to hit the billion-user mark
Is free social media for targeted ads the only available model?
Is free social media for targeted ads the only available model?
While highly lucrative, it isn’t the sole option, according to an Indian social media platform
Twitterati slam SonyLIV’s ‘patchy’ streaming of World Cup
Twitterati slam SonyLIV’s ‘patchy’ streaming of World Cup
Complain of poor reception, random restarts, inability to switch to English commentary
Ab roller on travel & kids on my back, adding fun to routine: Sankalp Chopra
1. I try to hit the gym at least three to four times a week. I prefer early morning workouts. But as long as I ...
Pharma is transitioning to an ‘on-demand’ model of services, a la Netflix
Post Covid, customer engagement will be a blend of face-to-face and virtual contact
A tale of two States and the oncoming monsoon
An already stretched healthcare system gears up for the various diseases that will be unleashed during the ...
On the Mumbai-Goa Rajdhani, with Covid in the air
Jottings from a train journey tell a worrisome tale of health and hygiene pitfalls, as the lockdown is set to ...
How Critical Illness insurance is different from Medi-claim insurance and why you need to have one
While recently in this space we discussed how to zero-down on the right medi-claim policy, now, a look at the ...
Big Story | How Atmanirbhar Bharat impacts sectors, stocks
We evaluate the impact of key proposals and reforms on various sectors
Reliance Industries rights issue: 8 reasons why you should subscribe to it
Among them is the fact that RIL has financial muscle to weather the Covid-19 storm
Cement companies report concrete gains despite weak volumes in Q4
Firms reported a surge in EBITDA per tonne in Q4, thanks to higher realisations and savings on energy and ...
The long way home for India’s migrant workers
Lakhs of migrant workers are fleeing job losses, starvation and government apathy in locked-down cities. At ...
Liar’s Dice, a film that captures the plight of migrant workers
The journey of migrants walking back to their homes hundreds of miles away finds resonance in the story of ...
Of pots, pans and chutneys
The music of Trinidad and Tobago is replete with diverse and fusion-rich notes
Raageshwari is still on a roll
Raageshwari Loomba Swaroop, whose songs topped the charts in the ’90s, discusses her new book, embracing ...
Covid Chronicles | Part Six: On Food
Why we are baking bread and brewing KombuchaEating food and making food are some of the most reassuring things ...
Covid Chronicles | Part 5 - New intimacies & old distances
From discovering neighbours right next door to slowing the pace of Tinder dating, the socialization process ...
A budding floral start-up takes a divine route
Yeshoda and Rhea Karuturi’s Rose Bazaar delivers custom-packaged puja flowers
Covid Chronicles | Part 4 - Fashion & beauty: Style in the time of sweatpants
For every person who spruces up for a Zoom meeting is another who keeps the video off, liberated from the need ...
‘Financial literacy is important to assess risk, to ask questions’
“There is no protection, across the world, for money against market investments; misinformation or violation ...
Summer of discontent for small investors
Whether it’s PMC, DHFL, CKP or Franklin Templeton, it’s a story of ordinary middle-class folk losing their ...
KITE, Corona and Kerala
Covid-19 shut down schools and cancelled exams but learning didn’t stop for students of Kerala’s government ...
Where do we go with our harvested wheat?
The lockdown has impacted the pace of procurement, driving prices below MSP in MP and Rajasthan, even as costs ...