In no particular order, here are MediaNama’s top 10 stories of the week ended 05th March 2017 MediaNama would like to thank its sponsors: Indian Express, Bruce Clay, Google, Mint and E2E for their support. Paytm now has 200 million wallets In a tweet, Paytm CEO Vijay Shekhar Sharma said that the company has crossed 200 million wallets. The tweet added that the total balance in the wallets is Rs 899.11 crore with 106.8 million wallets with money or with a card saved. Read it here Earnings Review: Demonetization impact on telecom, media & Internet ecommerce An overview of the impact of demonetization on digital, telecom, payments, cable, device, Internet, and ecommerce businesses: Part 1: Telecom operators, ISPs, Cable operators and vendors 1. Airtel: Airtel noticed “some immediate impact in the few days post demonetization”, which “was there for a few weeks, but like we saw in some of our other businesses, like DTH, that recovery was reasonably quick. There were some postponement of purchases, but it was quite quick.” Airtel was hurt largely by Reliance Jio’s “Welcome Offer” of giving data free. More details here. Read it here Amit Singhal leaves Uber over non-disclosure of past sexual harassment complaints At a time when Uber is under immense scrutiny over insensitivity related to sexual harassment at work, its recently appointed SVP of engineering Amit Singhal has quit, reports Recode. According to the report, Singhal was asked to resign by Uber CEO Travis Kalanick, after Singhal had not disclosed to the…
