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Top 10 stories of the week: April 3rd to April 9th 2017

In no particular order, here are MediaNama’s top 10 stories of the week ended 9th April 2017 MediaNama would like to thank its sponsors: Indian Express and E2E for their support. Malayala Manorama pulls out of DailyHunt as publishers vs aggregators battle heats up One of the biggest regional language news publisher Malayala Manorama has decided to pull out its content from DailyHunt, an Indian-language news aggregator. This ends an association between the two that began in 2005, around the time when DailyHunt (then called NewsHunt) first launched. Read it here MoneyGram-Ant Financial merger runs into trouble with US politics: report The proposed $880 million MoneyGram and Ant Financial merger has run into trouble in the United States, reports Bloomberg. The publication said that two members of US Congress – Kevin Yoder and Eddie Bernice Johnson – called on Committee on Foreign Investment in the US for an investigation into Ant Financial’s proposal as it would allow Chinese access to the US financial infrastructure. Read it here Netflix deploys caches of its catalogue to Indian Internet providers Netflix has deployed caches of its catalog to Indian Internet providers in Chennai, Bangalore, Pune, and Hyderabad, MediaNama has learned. Netflix had already deployed such caches, known as Open Connect Appliances, throughout Asia, Europe, and the United States. Read it here Govt revenue from telecom sector decreased due to increasing competition Government’s revenue generation from the telecom sector has fallen considerably following the launch of Reliance Jio and due to consolidation and tariff wars…

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