In no particular order, here are MediaNama’s top 10 stories of the week ended 3rd September 2017 MediaNama would like to thank its sponsors: E2E for their support. Vodafone CEO Vittorio Colao writes to Indian govt asking for "urgent intervention" Reducing Interconnect Usage Charges (IUC) will destabilize the telecom sector, defeat government rural coverage objectives and cause inconvenience to users, Vittorio Colao, Vodafone Group CEO said in a letter to the DoT and Ministry of State for Communication. Read it here Uber appoints Dara Khosrowshahi as CEO: report Online cab hailing service Uber has appointed Expedia’s CEO Dara Khosrowshahi as its new CEO, reports Recode. Khosrowshahi was in the running for the top job along with Jeff Immelt, chairman of General Electric and Meg Whitman, CEO of Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Read it here Facebook to ban ads from the pages that share fake news In its battle against misinformation, Facebook will now ban ads from the pages that repeatedly share fake news. The social media platform said in a blogpost that if pages repeatedly share stories marked as false, these repeat offenders will no longer be allowed to advertise on Facebook. Read it here Delhi government looks to cap surge pricing for online cab companies The Delhi government is reportedly looking at capping surge pricing again for online cab aggregators, reports the Economic Times. The publication cited state transport minister Kailash Gahlot who said that the cap will be included the in the City Taxi Scheme 2017. Read it here…
