ShareChat laid off 101 employees on Wednesday, or about a fourth of the workforce, as the regional social media firm expects the advertising market to be unpredictable this year. The Twitter-backed firm sent an email to employees on early morning Wednesday informing them about the various cost-cutting measures. The five-year-old company had started monetizing the […]

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is “worried” that countries across the world may be trying to imitate China’s approach of regulating the internet, which “disregards” human rights. In an hour-long conversation about threats posed by Covid-19 with European Union official Thierry Breton, Zuckerberg said the West should counter China with a “democratic” approach to the Internet. […]

Therese Kelly arrived for her shift at an Amazon warehouse March 27 to find her co-workers standing clustered in the cavernous space. They were awaiting a buildingwide announcement, a rarity at the complex known as AVP1. Over a loudspeaker, a manager told them what they had feared: For the first time, an employee had tested […]

Facebook on Tuesday reached out to businesses struggling to survive the pandemic with free tools for creating online “Shops” at the social network and Instagram. Merchants can easily set up shops on Facebook and Instagram, customize looks and display products, according to the California-based internet giant. “The primary focus is to ensure small and medium […]

Illustration: Rahul Awasthi Online retailers such as Amazon and Flipkart are preparing for a large-scale recovery after most states allowed them to sell items deemed non-essential, including Maharashtra, which has been the hardest hit by the Covid-19 pandemic. In fact, Mumbai is one of the largest markets for these companies. Online sales of non-essentials have […]

Indian startups, which employ around 4,00,000 people across 9,300 technology firms, are walking a tightrope between staying the course, and pivoting their businesses to adapt to the new normal. The Covid-19 pandemic has ravaged businesses across the world, changed consumer behaviour and put millions of people out of work. And India’s startup sector doesn’t seem […]

Short video platform TikTok’s user rating dropped to 2 stars on Tuesday on the Google Play Store from 4.6 last week following a heated online battle between a YouTube influencer and TikTok creator in India. It started when TikTok creator Amir Siddiqui posted a video on Facebook-owned Instagram calling out YouTubers. In his video, Siddiqui […]

Rohit Kapoor, CEO of SoftBank backed Oyo for India and South Asia said he is expecting a recovery for the hospitality sector starting in the next quarter and that Oyo’s only request to the government at this time would be to allow the graded opening of hotels, with adequate precautions. “If you ask people, coming […]

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday issued notices to the central government, Facebook, Google and Twitter over an application seeking removal of groups like ‘Bois locker room’ to protect the safety and security of children. The court had on Monday directed the city police to speed up its investigation of Bois Locker Room — a […]

#BanTikTokInIndia, #tiktokdown, #tiktokexposed were among the hashtags trending on micro-blogging platform Twitter as the Chinese video-sharing app’s rating fell to 2.0 from 4.6 on Google Play Store. Videos of TikTok users allegedly promoting acid attacks, rape, animal cruelty, hate mongering and violence have emerged on Twitter, drawing flak from netizens. A number of memes criticizing […]