Can AI-powered voice payments for UPI transactions impact India’s digital payments?

As tech giants like Google, Amazon, and Apple produce AI-enhanced gadgets with a conversational voice interface, consumers' interest in voice assistants grows across all markets. (Representative Image: BENCE BOROS via Unsplash)

Voice-based payments are new but could change how we shop. Users can now begin payments in chat or message conversations, turning regular interactions into fast cash transfers.

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.

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.

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

As detailed in the comprehensive white paper by ASCI Academy, PSA Legal, and Tsaaro Consulting, organizations must recalibrate their cookie strategies to align with emerging legal standards.

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.