WhatsApp has been sharing metadata with Facebook for many years now, so it’s new policy wouldn’t have changed much for users. But that doesn’t mean that people should not be concerned about their privacy.Read More
Monthly Archives: July 2022
The Internet connects over 2.5 billion users worldwide, offering opportunities to young people to connect, communicate, educate, and ultimately expand their horizons. In India, however, several socio-economic disparities along with other divisions, based on gender or race, affect equal access to and safe usage of digital platforms, widening the existing digital divide…Read More
Justice League Snyder Cut is out March 18, partly thanks to HBO Max. But HBO Max is exclusive to the US. This is a huge missed opportunity for HBO Max, as the Snyder Cut was the perfect time to launch HBO Max in India. Justice League Snyder Cut’s global release nonetheless suggests it’s putting fans…
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier premieres Friday on Disney+ and Disney+ Hotstar. Marvel gave critics access to episode 1 for review purposes. But I’m not going to review it just yet. Here’s why.Read More
The Supreme Court will soon decide on its bid to scuttle the $3.4 billion (roughly Rs. 24,630 crore) sale of debt-laden retailer Future Group’s assets to Amazon’s archrival Reliance. But the rivalry between Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and Reliance’s Mukesh Ambani won’t end with a verdict in the Future Group case.Read More
It took a year of the pandemic but finally one of the world’s biggest banks has acknowledged the huge toll that working remotely is taking on its staff. Citigroup CEO Jane Fraser wants to ease Zoom fatigue and go back to regular working hours. That tells you how bad things have got — at investment…
E-commerce could be said to be around 3-4 percent of the market share of retail, but even then, it has significantly added value to the communities and economic growth of the country. There is huge potential for growth, and to develop global technologies that can integrate mom and pop stores, argues Lalit Kumar of J….
Black Widow is out July 9 on Disney+ with Premier Access, but not on Disney+ Hotstar, where it’s not expected before October 8. That’s thanks to India’s video-on-demand failures, Disney’s insistence on cinemas-first even at the height of COVID-19, and its unwillingness to take bold bets like HBO Max.Read More
We’re all in the rat race for money, but most of us don’t know what money actually is. And until we have a clear explanation for that, we can’t define the future of money, or the role that cryptocurrency will play in that future.Read More
On this World Photography Day, let’s talk deep about photography. Photography is as much an art as it is science. The science that goes behind the lens to capture the perfect shot as much as the aesthetics that make those shots remain etched for time immemorial. Visual thinking, as we know it, is the normal…