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• Coinbase expands cryptocurrency trading services across 11 new markets

  Coinbase, one of the longest serving exchanges in the cryptocurrency ecosystem, is expanding its services across Latin America ...

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• Bollywood pushes T-Series ahead of PewDiePie in the race for YouTube’s #1 spot

  PewDiePie v T-series seems to be coming to an end as the Indian music label has built a significant lead of ther swedish ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Indian court asks government to ban TikTok downloads because it 'encourages pornography'

  Yesterday, the Madras High Court, situated in the southern Indian city of Chennai, directed the country's central government ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Indian entrepreneur implicated in $300 million Bitcoin Ponzi scheme gets bail

  Amit Bhardwaj, a man accused of running a $300-million Bitcoin Ponzi scheme, has reportedly been granted bail on medical ...

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• Why the world is unhappy with India's anti-satellite missile test

  India successfully launched an anti-satellite missile last month. What does this spell for its reputation as a major space ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• WhatsApp launches a tip line in India to battle fake news ahead of national elections

  WhatsApp has launched a tip line in India to which you can send forwards, rumors, and suspicious-sounding messages and have ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• Google's India lead, Rajan Anandan, is leaving the company

  Rajan Anandan, Google's vice president for South East Asia and India, is leaving the company after eight years with the firm. ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• Ripple partners with Federal Bank in India for cross-border payments

  Private bank, Federal Bank Ltd. in India has partnered with blockchain infrastructure provider, Ripple, to facilitate international ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• Google Maps' first try at AR navigation is janky but exciting

  Google released its AR maps in January in alpha version. But now it's rolling out to more cities in India to selected users. ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• PUBG Mobile is testing a 6-hour per day limit in India

  PlayersUnknown Battleground (PUBG) is under fire in India for its addictive nature and causing several deaths. It might ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• WeChat Pay to reportedly take on Google Pay and Paytm in India later this year

  WeChat is planning to launch its payment service WeChat pay in India by May-June. It will be a UPI-based app approved by ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Netflix' $4 mobile-only subscriptions could bolster its growth in India

  In a bid to grow its audience in India, Netflix is trialing cheaper subscriptions that allow access to its streaming video ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• How to book train tickets in India straight from the Google Pay app

  Google Pay (earlier named Tez) has recently rolled out the ability to book train tickets in India straight from the app – ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Women were fighting against sexual harassment online long before #MeToo

  Just two months after allegations of sexual abuse against Hollywood film mogul Harvey Weinstein came to light in a 2017 New ...

  • The Conversation

• ISPs are reportedly blocking Reddit in India

  Facebook and Instagram might be up for people around the world after a long outage, but for several people in India are not ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Report: India accounts for a quarter of TikTok's billion downloads

  TikTok – the app that lets you create 15-second dubbed videos – is on a rapid growth curve. The app crossed 1 billion ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• YouTube Music launches in India to battle it out with Spotify et al

  At long last, YouTube Music has launched in India with a free ad-supported option, as well as its Premium plan at Rs. 99 ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• PSA: Look out for YouTube's info panels on controversial topics before watching videos

  YouTube announced last night that it'll show information panels in Hindi and English, powered by fact-checkers on controversial ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Scam ICO advertised on CoinMarketCap busted by police in India

  Criminal investigation authorities in the Indian state of Gujarat have booked five people for running fraudulent initial ...

  • Neer Varshney

• Here's how to get Spotify Premium in India ahead of its official launch

  People in India have eagerly waited for Spotify to launch in the country. Well, that date might arrive real soon, as the ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Cryptocurrency named after India’s ‘Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?’ ends in $250K scam

  Police in India's financial hub Mumbai has booked a local resident Pritam Patil for duping $250,000 out of 12 people in a ...

  • Neer Varshney

• Spotify officially launches in India, with free music on-demand

  After an excruciatingly long wait, music streaming service Spotify has finally launched in India. As we noted last night, ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• TikTok is under fire in India over alleged cyberbullying

  Most of us know TikTok - the app that allows users to create 15-second videos - as a place for silly (and sometimes cringy) ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• After the US, Twitter faces wrath from India’s right wing over alleged bias

  Last September, when Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey appeared in front of US Congress, several Republican representatives asked him ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• How selfies help Indian women from Delhi's outskirts claim their right to the city

  Taking selfies and posting them on social media is often derided as a narcissistic, self-absorbed, and attention-seeking ...

  • The Conversation

• India gears up for crewed space missions with its new Human Space Flight Center

  The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said last Thursday that it has launched a Human Space Flight Centre in the ...

  • Vishwam Sankaran

• India’s porn crackdown isn’t working — but China’s is

  This article was originally published on SEXTECHGUIDE, an independent publication that looks at the intersection ...

  • SEXTECHGUIDE

• Here's why Amazon can't sell its own products in India right now

  India's new norms prevent Amazon from hawking items under its own label. What does this spell for one of the world's fastest ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• It's not just WhatsApp - India's fake news problem plagues several popular social networks

  You can't discuss the 'fake news' phenomenon in India without bringing up WhatsApp. The Facebook-owned messaging service ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• WhatsApp to roll out forwarding limit globally

  In order to curb fake news, WhatsApp tested limits on forwards in India including containing forwarding a message to only ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Samsung is prepping M-series budget phones to battle its Chinese rivals in India

  After playing second fiddle to Chinese rival Xiaomi in India's burgeoning smartphone market in 2018, Samsung is set to fight ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• How Uber Lite was engineered to thrive in emerging markets

  Last June, Uber launched its ‘diet’ app –Uber Lite – in India, with a view to support users with older phones, and ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Apple Maps is finally getting turn-by-turn navigation in India

  Update: Apple has confirmed to TNW that Apple Maps' turn-by-turn navigation is now live in India. Apple Maps has been ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• India's massive Jio carrier is blocking VPN sites and violating net neutrality rules

  Reliance Jio, the third largest mobile carrier in India, is blocking access to several proxy and VPN sites for its 250 million ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• Elections, fake news, and spam: WhatsApp has a tough year ahead in India next year

  In India, most people won't ask you for a business card to get your contact info. Instead, they'll ask you if you use WhatsApp. ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Pornhub dodges India's porn site ban with new domain name

  Last week, the Indian government directed telcos to block 827 porn sites including Pornhub. In response, Pornhub launched ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• India's new satellite is a first step in providing rural areas with faster internet

  India launched its heaviest satellite, the GSAT-11, also called ‘The Big Bird,’ from the French space port of Kourou ...

  • Vishwam Sankaran

• WhatsApp’s first ever TV commercial warns against fake news in India

  WhatsApp has faced a lot of criticism for the way it's handled fake news in India. In its latest move to battle misinformation, ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Fortnite bests Russia and Japan to become world's 8th most-populated place

  Epic Games today revealed that the number of players registered in Fortnite is now around 200 million. Let that number ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Tinder adds more gender identity options for Indian users

  Tinder has introduced a new gender option for its app users in India. This feature includes more options for individuals ...

  • Cara Curtis

• Amazon launches a Hindi site to lure India's next 100 million online shoppers

  With a view to make Amazon the ultimate shopping destination for the next 100 million Indians, the company has launched a ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Jeff Bezos must spend his $150B helping humanity otherwise he's a scumbag

  Well, it's happened. Amazon's CEO and founder, Jeff Bezos, is now the richest person ever. According to Bloomberg, Amazon's ...

  • Callum Booth

• WhatsApp's label for forwarded messages won't be enough to battle fake news

  Continuing its mission to help fight the spread of misinformation on its platform, WhatsApp is introducing a label to help ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• India’s cryptocurrency ban has already taken its first toll

  It seems that Indian Supreme Court's decision to uphold the central bank's directive against cryptocurrency businesses is ...

  • Neer Varshney

• India's top court upholds central bank ban against cryptocurrencies

  Licensed financial institutions will have three months to discontinue all operations related to cryptocurrencies and digital ...

  • David Canellis