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Digital adoption in Indian industry will gather momentum: Siemens

The German engineering major sees decarbonisation as a major theme globally. In India, it sees more opportunities in the digitisation of small and medium enterprises. (Representative Image: NordWood Themes via Unsplash)

Peter Körte, Chief Technology and Strategy Officer, Siemens AG, and Sunil Mathur, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Siemens Ltd, spoke to Moneycontrol at the Siemens India Innovation Day 2023.

Elon Musk plans to turn X Corp into an everything app; experiments with a new game video stream feature

In a recent shift, X agreed to comply with some of Brazil's demands by blocking the contentious accounts, paying the fines, and appointing a legal representative within the country.

Sharing similarities with Twitch, this service is currently accessible only to the premium subscribers of X.

Lawsuit filed against Elon Musk’s X by agency ‘X Social Media’ over trademark infringement

What has made the situation worse is that Google results of 'X Social Media' rank lower in search results as opposed to the microblogging platform that ranks at the top. (Image via Unsplash)

The complaint by Florida based social media ad agency mentioned that since Twitter was rebranded as X, it led to confusion amongst the consumers as they misunderstood that the agency was somehow in association with Musk’s X.

Upcoming Digital India Bill may reinforce TRAI’s net neutrality regulations

The terrestrially transmitted channels can be carried to multiple DPO networks simultaneously for re-transmission. Considering these developments, it is essential to establish an enabling framework to ensure that service providers can fully leverage technological advancements.

The bill may make it mandatory for intermediaries to comply with the Prohibition of Discriminatory Tariffs for Data Services, a piece of regulation that was brought in by TRAI to uphold net neutrality principles in India.

Google is 25 and searching for the next big thing!

1.5 Flash excels at summarization, chat applications, image and video captioning, data extraction from long documents and tables, and more. (Representative Image: Lauren Edvalson via Unsplash)

As Google completes 25 years of innovation and growth, Storyboard18 looks at some of the milestones achieved by Google by flipping its history pages.

Digital India Bill may bring in guardrails against AI algorithms, offer opt-out rights

48 percent of Gen Z prioritise mental and emotional well-being. (Representative Image: Steve Johnson via Unsplash)

The bill may make it mandatory for bodies to explain to citizens the rationale behind a decision taken by an algorithm, and how it arrived at the decision by processing of which particular user data.

Indian start-up founders urge government to preserve net neutrality and foster digital India

The letter said if ISPs—which now includes telecom operators—are allowed to strike deals that favour some online services over their competitors it will prevent promising start-ups from using the Internet and end all of them flourishing. (Representative Image: Glenn Carstens-Peters via Unsplash)

According to the startups, if internet-enabled start-ups or online service providers had to first obtain a government license, or pay each Internet Service Provider (ISP) in the world—there are tens of thousands of them—this global market and competition, and the innovation and progress, would all disappear.

DNPA to push for fair revenue sharing with tech giants ahead of India’s Digital India Bill 2023

43 percent of organisations did not provide a clear reason for which personal data was shared with third-party data processors. (Representative Image: Franck via Unsplash)

It hopes that the Bill will contain a bargaining code, which would ensure them a fair share of revenue generated by tech companies through the hosting of news content.

More businesses use WhatsApp now in India, says Meta India VP Sandhya Devanathan

Jio Platforms announced on Monday had announced the launch of the first-ever end-to-end shopping experience on WhatsApp in collaboration with Meta Platforms. Calling it a “global first”, Reliance said in a statement that JioMart on WhatsApp will allow users in India, including those who have never shopped online before, to seamlessly browse through JioMart’s entire grocery catalogue, add items to their cart, and make the payment to complete the purchase — all without leaving the WhatsApp chat.

“Globally, I think we have 200 million businesses on WhatsApp, using our WhatsApp business messaging app. So you see this organic behaviour translate to not just users, but also what businesses do on our platform,” Sandhya Devanathan said.

Age limit should be imposed for usage of social media: Karnataka HC

The counsel of the microblogging platform argued that the ministry had not informed the users about blocking their tweets and accounts and the platform was forbidden from informing them. (Representative Image: Austin Distel via Unsplash)

The High Court observed that ‘children may be 17 or 18 but do they have the maturity to judge what is or is not in the interest of the nation?’