News Canada passes bill that compels platforms like Netflix, YouTube to show more local content Canada approved legislation that would force streaming platforms like Netflix, YouTube, and TikTok to show more local content. Sarvesh MathiJune 23, 2022
News Meta, Epic Games, Microsoft and others form metaverse open standards group Meta, Epic Games, Microsoft, and 34 other companies and organisations have come together to form the Metaverse Standards Forum. Sarvesh MathiJune 22, 2022
News Why Germany is launching an antitrust investigation into Google Maps Germany's Bundeskartellamt initiated a proceeding against Google to examine possible anti-competitive restrictions imposed by Google Maps. Sarvesh MathiJune 22, 2022
News RBI bars prepaid wallets and cards from offering credit lines to customers Non-banks issuing prepaid payment instruments (PPIs) like wallets and prepaid cards cannot offer customers a credit line, RBI said. Sarvesh MathiJune 21, 2022
News Cloudflare outage brings down large parts of the internet second time in a week An outage at Cloudflare resulted in multiple sites across the globe going down for over an hour on June 21 afternoon. Sarvesh MathiJune 21, 2022
News Parliamentary panel suggests government should relook zero MDR policy for UPI The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Commerce has asked the Indian government to rethink its zero MDR policy for UPI and RuPay. Sarvesh MathiJune 20, 2022
News How the government should amend the Competition Act for the digital era, parliamentary panel suggests The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Commerce urged the Indian government to amend the two-decade old Competition Act, 2000. Sarvesh MathiJune 20, 2022
News Summary: How the new US federal data privacy bill might break years of stalemate The American Data Privacy and Protection Act is the first federal US data privacy bill that has bipartisan and bicameral support. Sarvesh MathiJune 18, 2022
News ONDC does not seem to address key issues like competition: Parliamentary Committee The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Commerce has pointed out various issues with ONDC that need to be addressed by the government. Sarvesh MathiJune 17, 2022
News RBI lifts restriction on Mastercard, allows banks to issue new cards on the network RBI allows Mastercard to on-board new customers, after the network showed compliance with data localisation norms. Sarvesh MathiJune 17, 2022