Soumyarendra Barik
Principal Correspondent at The Indian Express
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1 week ago |
indianexpress.com | Soumyarendra Barik
Social media giant Meta, parent to popular companies like Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, is on the stand. The allegation: it engaged in “illegal monopolisation” by buying out competitors — at the time Instagram (in 2012 for $1 billion) and WhatsApp (in 2014 for $19 billion) — in an anticompetitive fashion, described by regulators as a “buy-or-bury strategy”. What’s at stake? Meta could be ordered to break off from these companies, setting up a landmark precedence in the technology sector.
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2 weeks ago |
indianexpress.com | Soumyarendra Barik
With this concession, India moves to remove certain non-tariff trade barriers as it discusses a bilateral trade agreement with the US, which has criticised New Delhi over its business environment for American companies. Earlier, the government had also proposed to abolish proposed to abolish the equalisation levy on online advertisements — colloquially called the Google Tax — in a move largely understood to placate the US administration.
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2 weeks ago |
indianexpress.com | Soumyarendra Barik
Defending that the data protection law does not dilute the Right to Information (RTI) Act, Union IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said the privacy law was in harmony with principles laid down in the Supreme Court’s landmark right to privacy judgment, and will not restrict the disclosure of personal information of government officials.
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2 weeks ago |
indianexpress.com | Soumyarendra Barik
Israeli company NSO Group’s controversial spyware Pegasus was used to target 1,223 individuals using WhatsApp across 51 countries in 2019, with 100 Indians being impacted by use of the hacking software — the second highest count globally, court documents showed.
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2 weeks ago |
indianexpress.com | Soumyarendra Barik
The Centre is in advanced stages of finalising a move that could bring online real-money gaming companies such as Dream11, Games24x7, and Winzo under the ambit of anti-money laundering laws and subject them to stricter obligations such as know-your-customer (KYC) requirements, and tracking and reporting suspicious transactions, The Indian Express has learnt.
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Cabinet approves Rs 22,919 crore electronic components subsidy scheme, targets 91,600 jobs. @IndianExpress broke the story on March 17 - https://t.co/VSk4yugjHG
Replug: In January 2023, Niti Aayog wrote to IT Min reg its reservations on the changes to the RTI Act, which the data protection law was going to make -- saying it will weaken the pro transparency law. IT Min ignored the govt think tank @IndianExpress https://t.co/i0EVfCLPk4