By Kate Conger Jack Dorsey was up late Thursday at his home in San Francisco talking online with his executives when their conversation was interrupted: President Donald Trump had just posted another inflammatory message on Twitter. Tensions between Twitter, where Dorsey is chief executive, and Trump had been running high for days over the president’s […]

Paytm Mall said it is moving its operations from Noida to Bengaluru as the e-commerce platform looks to tap into the rich talent pool available in the city’s consumer internet and startup ecosystem. The company appointed Abhishek Rajan as its new Chief Operating Officer. Former COO Srinivas Mothey has been elevated to Senior Vice President […]

Illustration: Rahul Awasthi Walmart-owned e-commerce marketplace Flipkart has promoted five executives to the level of Senior Vice President. The elevations of Manish Kumar, Anand Lakshminarayanan, Ranjith Boyanapalli, Ravish Kumar Sinha and Ravi Iyer were announced in an email sent by Flipkart Group CEO Kalyan Krishnamurthy on Sunday. This brings the total number of executives at […]

A final proposal on visa fee increase, submitted by the US immigration agency last week with the US President’s office, is expected to hike the cost of an H-1B visa by 22% and that of the L-1 visa — used by technology companies to transfer employees between offices — by as much as 77%. The […]

Illustration: Rahul Awasthi E-commerce companies have started showcasing small-scale promotional events to spur consumer demand, two weeks after restrictions on shipping products were relaxed across the country, in what analysts say is a sign of normalcy in a sector that typically drives sales through discounts. Over the weekend, Flipkart-owned fashion portal Myntra held its Month […]

Illustration: Rahul Awasthi ByteDance is setting up a second corporate entity in India, as the Chinese multinational internet technology company looks to deepen its roots in Asia’s third-largest economy, among its most active markets globally. The new entity, according to two sources with knowledge of the developments, is likely to provide Information Technology and IT-enabled […]

Amazon said it was removing certain images after messages using extremely strong racist abuse appeared on some listings on its UK website when users searched for Apple’s AirPods and other similar products. The message sparked outrage on Twitter, with the topic “AirPods” trending in the United Kingdom. “We are removing the images in question and […]

With close to 670 million active internet connections, today more Indians consume media through digital modes. This practically means a content feed based on the social media platform of your choice. It may be Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, Share-Chat or even WhatsApp. India has the highest number of users and views on several of […]

The spree of layoffs in the startup ecosystem has paved the way for action of another kind that is now gaining momentum — facilitating the placement of laid off staff by going the extra mile. Food delivery platform Zomato which earlier laid off 520 employees or 13% of its workforce in its huge retrenchment exercise […]

If you’ve been having trouble accessing WeTransfer for sending work files to colleagues, the problem isn’t your internet connection or a case of service’s servers buckling under increased demand. It is because WeTransfer, one of the world’s most popular file sharing services, has been banned by the Department of Telecommunications. In an order dated May […]