On September 10, when the northeast Indian state of Manipur announced a five-day internet shutdown in response to student-led protests, citizens were livid — but not surprised.

In the six months before the Indian elections earlier this year, YouTuber Akash Banerjee created content highlighting the shortcomings of the incumbent government.

WhatsApp’s massive 500 million users in India have supercharged Meta’s AI ambitions.

Amazon has agreed to acquire key assets of Indian video streaming service MX Player from the local media powerhouse Times Internet, the latest step by the e-commerce giant to make its services and brand popular in smaller cities and towns in the key overseas market.  The two firms reached a definitive agreement for the deal […]© 2024 TechCrunch.

A permanent split with Chinese apps was less disruptive than many expected. Most users turned to Instagram or YouTube in the wake of the ban.

In 2023, India introduced a series of regulations and tweaked policies that borrowed from Europe’s antitrust approach and Chinese-style government surveillance, alarming executives and investors in the world’s most populous market.

WhatsApp is rolling out a new feature in India that will allow users in its largest market to pay businesses using a variety of payment options from within the instant messaging app.

India is now Snapchat's biggest user market.

The Indian government on April 6 announced a state-run fact-checking unit that will have sweeping powers to label any piece of information related to the government as “fake, false or...

The ByteDance-owned app, which has been banned in India since June 2020, said it has closed its remote sales support hub in India.

An IT law allows the government to block public access to content in the interest of national security, among other reasons that are usually confidential.

As the market of social media influencers is getting bigger in India, the South Asian nation has introduced endorsement guidelines to limit unfair trade practices and misleading promotions on the web.

The Indian government has proposed making the Press Bureau of India and its other agencies the arbiter of truth on what information is misleading for social media firms and other internet companies as they oversee their users’ data in the South Asian market.

Of the 500 million devices in 2022 the Facebook app got downloaded for the first time, 136M were recorded in India, as per AppFigures data. This is followed by Indonesia, the USA, Brazil, Mexico, the Philippines, Pakistan, Vietnam, and Egypt. These countries make 70% of Facebooks new downloads in 2022.

To see what could happen if the US were to ban TikTok, analysts say to look at India, where Meta, YouTube, and Snapchat were able to flourish after the Chinese app was banned by New Delhi.

Brendan Carr, Commissioner of the FCC, warned that TikTok “operates as a sophisticated surveillance tool,” and told the Indian daily Economic Times that banning the social app is a “natural next step in our efforts to secure communication network”.