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‘Bringing WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram, Google Meet and other OTT apps under telecom licence is violation of the Indian Constitution as …’ – Times of India

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Another big fight is brewing between telecom operators — Airtel, Reliance Jio and Vodafone-Idea — and internet giants over the regulation of over-the-top (OTT) platforms. Telecom industry body COAI has called for bringing popular messaging and video call apps like WhatsApp, Telegram, and Google Meet under the ambit of telecom licences, arguing that they contribute…

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‘Respect’: Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg on how Google DeepMind CEO negotiated with Google playing him off – Times of India

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently commended DeepMind co-founder Demis Hassabis for his strategic negotiation tactics during Google’s acquisition of the AI research lab in 2014. Speaking at a South Park Commons event, Zuckerberg revealed that Facebook (now Meta) had been in talks to purchase DeepMind before Google secured the deal for over $500 million.“I did…

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Meta removes 63,000 Nigerian Instagram accounts accused of sextortion scandals – Times of India

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Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, has removed down 63,000 Instagram accounts based in Nigeria, taking down a widespread sextortion racket . The company announced on that these accounts were engaged in financial sextortion scams, primarily targeting adult men in the United States.The crackdown, which occurred in late May, focused on a network…

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How ISIS ran fake channels of CNN and Al Jazeera for over a month on YouTube – Times of India

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Terrorist organisation ISIS reportedly created two fake channels on Google-owned video platform YouTube and Facebook. The YouTube channels claimed to be of global news platforms – CNN and Al Jazeera. This aim was to lend legitimacy to facilitate the dissemination of ISIS propaganda.A report by the Institute for Strategic Dialogue reveals that along with two…

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WhatsApp shutdown threat in India: 4 Reasons government says Whatsapp needs to ‘follow’ IT rules – Times of India

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Messaging service platform WhatsApp this week submitted before the Delhi High Court that if it is made or compelled to break encryption of messages, then the platform will stop functioning. The submissions came while the division bench led by the Acting Chief Justice was hearing the petitions moved by WhatsApp and Facebook challenging newly amended…

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Two big reasons why job cuts at Apple are not as deep as that at Amazon, Facebook, Google and other tech companies | – Times of India

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Apple reportedly has recently announced its first significant layoffs since pandemi. The job cuts are said to affect about 700 employees at its special projects group. However, the scale of these cuts is significantly smaller than the tens of thousands of jobs slashed by rival tech giants Google, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft in the last…

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