In no particular order, here are MediaNama’s top 10 stories of the week ended 2nd June 2019 MediaNama would like to thank its sponsors: E2E, for their support. Mobikwik reports gross revenues of Rs 1,846 million, 90% jump in monthly active users in FY2019 Mobikwik reported gross revenues of Rs 1,846 million in FY2019, more than double the previous year’s, in its latest Annual Report. It claimed its total registered users grew 40% and monthly active users (MAUs) grew 90% over the period. Here are the other numbers from the report: Read it here Kurkure! PepsiCo got 16,600 pieces of Facebook content removed via a single Delhi High Court order How touchy is Pepsico about Kurkure? 16,600 of the 17,713 pieces of content that Facebook removed in India between July and December 2018, in response to legal requests by India’s law enforcement agencies, courts, and the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), were related to Pepsico, according to Facebook’s latest Transparency Report. Read it here Delhi HC directs Delhi Police to register FIR for missing person cases via WhatsApp, email The Delhi HC has directed the Delhi Police to consider allowing online resgistration – via SMS, emails, and WhatsApp – of FIRs relating to missing persons to speed up the process, reports Bar & Bench. Read it here A TikTok phone soon? ByteDance looking to enter the smartphone industry: report The company behind the extremely popular app TikTok, ByteDance is reportedly working on making a smartphone of its own,…
