Ecommerce trends: India’s wallets are going mobile
The smartphone is rapidly becoming a convenient medium for making payments around the world. This new report from Neislen looks at the role of smartphone payments in India.
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Zuckerberg criticises board member for India ‘anti-colonialism’ tweet
Facebook sparked controversy this week, after a key board member Marc Andreessen linked India’s rejection of its free mobile service with ‘anti-colonialism’.
India blocks Facebook’s free internet scheme
India’s telecoms regulator has blocked Facebook’s Free Basics internet service today, saying the scheme violates net neutrality.
‘Chinese Apple’ Xiaomi to sell phones in US for first time (but no 4G)
Phones made by China’s Xiaomi – the world’s fourth biggest smartphone maker – are going on sale in the US for the first time, but they won’t be able to run on 4G networks.
New tool helps publishers ‘re-engage’ with adblockers
Oriel Ventures has launched new software that lets publishers analyse, communicate and re-engage their ad-blocking audiences, protecting their content and advertising revenue.
Twitter in 2015: Political chat ‘stronger than ever’
Taylor Swift and Justin Bieber were the most talked about celebrities on Twitter in 2015, but social media conversations have become increasingly political, according to new data.
Right to reply: Facebook’s free India internet only solves half the problem
The news this week that Facebook has now extended its Internet.org service to India has generated some negative press. Marco Veremis, CEO of Upstream, looks at the business case for why it is not necessarily the best solution to improving internet access in emerging markets.
Organic tech, robot bosses and the Zettabyte era: Economist app predicts 2016 trends
2016 will see the rise of the organic tech industry, machines will monitor employee performance and the ‘zettabyte era’ will begin as the world will churn out more than a trillion gigabytes, according to new predictions from The Economist.
Facebook ‘2G Tuesdays’ show mobile speeds in India to staff
Facebook is enacting 2G Tuesdays, a voluntary scheme where for an hour on a Tuesday morning its developers’ apps are throttled to 2G data speeds.
Facebook satellite to beam internet to Africa from 2016
Facebook is to launch a satellite in the second half of 2016 that will provide internet access to remote areas of Africa, under the controversial Internet.org scheme.