MediaNama would like to thank its sponsors: Espn, Microsoft, Times Internet and E2E for their support. Data - Broadband connections in India grew by 11.1% during quarter ending Sep-15 - Active Mobile connections in India declined by 2.4 million in April 2016: TRAI - 4.90M Mobile Number Portability requests in India in April 2016 - Data: mobile wallets transactions declined 9% in April 2016 Other Updates: - Eight years after its Mobile TV reccos yielded nothing, TRAI tries again - Uber wants users to pay upfront fare in some parts of US and India - Funding: OneWay.Cab, GrabOnRent, Staqu, FarEye - Video streaming platform VOOT ties up with Turner India for kids’ shows - YouTube will be adding live streaming to all users on its app - Nokia appoints Sanjay Malik as India head - Quick Heal acquires Junco Technologies, launches cyber security consulting - Microsoft has launched a wallet and here’s why it won’t work in India - Times Internet plans to invest $100M in its ad network Colombia - Almost done: RCOM, Aircel wireless business merger to await regulatory approval - Cabinet approves India’s costliest telecom spectrum auctions - India’s Data consumption grew 46% year-on-year - How personalization will change a user’s experience of Zomato - Ecommerce tax is spreading like a virus - Visa has issued over 1 million NFC cards and 100,000 terminals in India - Yahoo’s Nitin Mathur has joined TE Connectivity - Idea allows giving 100 MB of free data to non-data users, but that shouldn’t fool you - InMobi fined $950k by the FTC for tracking users without their consent - What we’re reading: On ad…
