Medianama

MediaNama is an online platform that focuses on news and insights about digital media in India. It is owned by MixedBag Media Pvt Ltd and was founded in 2008 by Nikhil Pahwa. The site reports on various topics, including product launches, mergers and acquisitions of digital companies, venture capital investments, industry research, joint ventures, and other significant business happenings in the Internet and mobile sectors. MediaNama also covers content related to music, gaming, and video.

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European Commission Fines Apple and Meta for DMA Violations

9 hours ago | medianama.com | Kamya Pandey

The European Commission has found Apple and Meta in violation of the Digital Markets Act (DMA) and has fined the companies EUR 500 million and EUR 200 million, respectively, for the violations. The Commission states that Apple has breached its anti-steering obligations under the Act, a fact which it had informed the company of back in 2024. Anti-steering is a practice where a platform restricts the business users operating on it from directing users to their own or third-party services.
US FTC Sues Uber For Charging Its Customers Without Consent

1 day ago | medianama.com | Kamya Pandey

The United States (US) Federal Trade Commission (FTC) filed a lawsuit against ride-hailing application Uber on April 21 for allegedly charging customers for its Uber One subscription service, without their consent. The regulator has also argued that Uber failed to deliver on its promise of discounts and savings as part of Uber One. The ride-hailing app also allegedly made cancellation difficult despite stating that users can cancel the subscription anytime.
TRAI Calls for Use-Case Critical M2M Services Classification

1 day ago | medianama.com | Kamya Pandey

The government should consider whether a service requires ultra-reliable low-latency machine-to-machine (M2M) connectivity with very high availability before classifying it as a critical M2M service, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) says. This comes as part of TRAI’s recommendations on critical M2M services, for which it had consulted stakeholders in June last year. Machine-to-machine includes technologies that allow wired and wireless devices to communicate with each other.
US DOJ's Proposed Antitrust Action Can Slow Innovation

2 days ago | medianama.com | Kamya Pandey

Google says that the United States (US) Department of Justice’s (DOJ) proposal to restrict it from competing for rights to distribute Google Search will “raise prices and slow innovation.” This comes as a part of the blog post Google released a day before its trial against the DOJ. In August last year, the US District Court for the District of Columbia held that Google is an illegal monopoly in the Search and advertising markets.
Meta to Use AI to Detect and Move Teens to Protected Accounts

2 days ago | medianama.com | Kamya Pandey

Meta has begun testing artificial intelligence (AI) technology to detect teens using its platforms. This comes after the company recently expanded teen accounts from Instagram to Facebook and Messenger as well. Teen accounts come with certain built-in protections such as a limit on who can contact the user, and the content the user sees. Further, under-16 account holders cannot carry out live streams on Instagram without parental permission.
Delhi High Court Hears Trademark Dispute

3 days ago | medianama.com | Kamya Pandey

Fintech company BharatPe has filed a trademark infringement suit against Internet of Things (IoT) prototyping platform BharatPi at the Delhi High Court. As part of this lawsuit, BharatPe is seeking a permanent injunction against BharatPi, restraining it from infringing the company’s trademark and copyrighted material.
Liking A Post Is Not Publishing or Transmitting It

3 days ago | medianama.com | Kamya Pandey

The Allahabad High Court (HC) has held that liking a social media post does not amount to publishing or transmitting. This comes as part of a court case between one Imran Khan and the state of Uttar Pradesh. Khan had filed an application to quash a chargesheet which held that he had violated Section 67 of the Information Technology Act, 2000 (IT Act) and Sections 147 (crime of rioting), 148 (rioting while armed with a deadly weapon), and 149 (unlawful assembly) of the Indian Penal Code.
IMF Warns AI Resources Could Deepen Global Inequality

6 days ago | medianama.com | Kamya Pandey

AI-specific resources like chips, data, and infrastructure can become a source of global inequality, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) mentioned in a paper it published in April this year. The organisation highlighted that policy actions like the US’s plan to restrict exports of advanced AI chips on a company and country basis, and the EU’s instruction to its member states to review outbound investments in AI and semiconductors, suggest the growing importance of digital infrastructure.
On facial recognition of toddlers in preschools

6 days ago | medianama.com | Nikhil Pahwa

You remember that old saying that “if something is available for free, you’re the product”? In the age of AI, even if you’re paying for something, you’re still the product. A few weeks ago, I got a cheerful but worrying email from an AI app on behalf of a great preschool that my child was about to join.
Wikipedia Wins Relief as SC Overturns ANI Defamation Order

6 days ago | medianama.com | Kamya Pandey

The Supreme Court of India has set aside the Delhi High Court’s order instructing the Wikimedia Foundation, which runs the digital encyclopedia Wikipedia, to take down a page on its site about the news agency Asian News International (ANI), according to a report. This comes after the Delhi High Court ruled in ANI’s favor earlier this month, directing Wikipedia to remove allegedly defamatory content about the news agency from its website.