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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi warns of giving up social media but ends up pulling a fast one at the worst possible time. The post India’s Social Media-Saavy Leader Executes Women’s Day Bluff appeared first on CCN.com origin »
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One year ago in India’s capital, New Delhi, the #MeToo movement started to pick up pace as hundreds of sexual harassment and abuse survivors anonymously shared their experiences online. Many of these testimonials were published by anonymous social media accounts to protect survivors’ identity, and safely raise awareness of the realities of sexual assault in India.
2019-10-4 12:41 | |
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Earlier this week, The Madras High Court in India ruled against any possibility of linking Aadhaar or any government ID with social media accounts. Justice S. Manikumar, said linking Aadhaar to emails or accounts would violate the original ruling from the Supreme Court which allows the IDs use only for government welfare schemes.
2019-8-23 15:51 | |
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Twitter announced today it has invested an undisclosed amount into ShareChat, an Indian social media app for local languages. The company led the investment round of $100 million along with TrustBridge Partners, Shunwei Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, SAIF Capital, India Quotient, and Morningside Venture Capital.
2019-8-16 08:29 | |
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The Indian cryptoverse lacks clarity on the government’s take on cryptocurrencies, after another alleged draft of the cryptocurrency bill circulated on social media. However, the community remained in good spirits and finally, found some relief after the Minister of State for Finance and Corporate Affairs, Anurag Singh Thakur, responded to a few questions in Parliament.
2019-7-19 18:45 | |
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Facebook‘s digital currency, Libra, has been causing a bit of a ruckus lately. Since its plans became public a few weeks ago, headlines have largely been awash with why it’s probably a bad idea.
2019-7-17 16:16 | |
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The idea of virtual assets and blockchain has prospered in the West but on the other side of the world, not so much. India has been one of the major countries in Asia that has dented the progression of the crypto industry with regulations.
2019-7-15 11:30 | |
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India had been considered to be the perfect market to launch Facebook’s cryptocurrency Libra. The social media giant’s users in India have doubled since 2015 to about 310 million and are forecast to surge to around 440 million by 2023.
2019-7-11 23:01 | |
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Days after an Indian government official expressed discomfort with Facebook’s cryptocurrency plans, the social media giant has indicated that it has ‘no plans to offer’ Libra, or its digital wallet Calibra, in its largest market.
2019-7-10 16:23 | |
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Contrary to the beliefs of many crypto critics, Facebook’s Libra will not be a Bitcoin killer. In fact the new digital coin from billionaire Zuckerberg et al may not even be available to some of the world’s largest markets.
2019-7-10 12:00 | |
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More than three years after India rejected a Facebook initiative to offer free internet service to its citizens terming the gesture ‘digital colonialism’, the social media giant’s cryptocurrency project Libra might meet the same fate in Asia’s third-largest economy.
2019-7-9 16:06 | |
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Facebook’s new digital currency Libra has received an early jolt from the Indian government. The authorities in Asia’s third-largest economy are no more keen on the social media giant’s project than any cryptocurrency that came before it.
2019-7-8 15:48 | |
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She was a high-flying international human right’s lawyer who worked with refugees. Then she was found dead on a beach in East Sussex. What happened in-between is a story of crime and punishment, and a question of how justice works in the social media era.
2019-7-5 17:33 | |
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WANT Marketplaces runs a global ecosystem of B2B, B2C, O2O, C2C hyperlocal, social, private groups and secure messaging based e Commerce marketplaces powered by the benipal shopping search engine, a relational contextual image, voice and text based search engine.
2019-6-25 22:03 | |
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It’s been less than 48 hours since Facebook unveiled its “cryptocurrency” Libra, which will operate on a private blockchain and have its own wallet. With the fiat currency-backed digital asset a year out from its official 2020 launch, the social media giant seems to have met its first major roadblock.
2019-6-20 17:30 | |
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Facebook’s proposed digital coin may face bans where the social media giant is blocked, or local laws restrict the usage of digital assets.
2019-6-20 13:55 | |
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By CCN Markets: Facebook’s cryptocurrency Libra is expected to change the way payments are made across the globe when it launches next year, but there’s one market that the social media giant might be giving a miss – India.
2019-6-21 13:26 | |
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Facebook’s Calibra digital wallet will not be available in some of the social network’s largest markets, including India, according to a report
2019-6-20 22:36 | |
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The ‘draft bill’ in India for banning digital assets that circulated through social media stunned the entire crypto community as the regulatory bodies are yet to clarify its stance on the matter.
2019-6-15 21:00 | |
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India’s battle against cryptocurrencies took a new turn after pictures of a “proposed” bill circulated on social media. However, it was rejected by various prominent publications and personalities in the crypto-circle, due to its lack of authenticity.
2019-6-14 16:00 | |
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By CCN Markets: A gang in India’s Madhya Pradesh state which scammed U. S. citizens hundreds of thousands of dollars through Bitcoin and other methods has been busted and its members arrested. The gang which ran its operations out of a call center is estimated to have made around $1.
2019-6-14 15:07 | |
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A call center scam that targeted US citizens and requested payment in Bitcoin has been busted by police in India resulting in the arrest of 78 people. According to a report, the Indore unit of Madhya Pradesh police’s Cyber Cell unearthed the online scam, which saw tele callers with American accents dupe US citizens.
2019-6-13 11:21 | |
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Tone Vays Calls Out India’s Consideration For Harsh Bitcoin Laws Despite Tone Vays using legitimate news sources to back up his claims, several social media users are still calling “fake news” on his latest Tweet: “India Considering 10 Years in Prison for doing anything related to #Bitcoin – And NOW it Begins… If a western […]
2019-6-7 22:47 | |
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With non-financial businesses placing their bets on a crypto-powered future, goliaths such as Facebook, Nike and Microsoft are in the race to register patents and trademarks to lead the crypto-era.
2019-6-3 13:00 | |
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The regulatory and legal environment around internet-based services and applications has changed considerably over the last decade. When large-scale social networking platforms first became popular in the 2000s, the general attitude toward mass data collection was essentially “why not?”.
2019-5-11 04:03 | |
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A week-long ban of popular social video creation app TikTok in India has been reversed, according to a report by Reuters, citing two lawyers involved in the case. The Android and iOS apps, however, are yet to return to Apple and Google’s app stores.
2019-4-25 15:02 | |
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The Municipal Corporation of Bangalore, Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Paike (BBMP), the agency in charge of social amenities and public infrastructure in the Greater Bangalore metropolitan area of India, has announced plans to launch a distributed ledger technology (DLT) pilot that will address some of the waste management challenges in the region.
2019-4-9 01:00 | |
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QuadrigaCX Exchange’s founder, Gerald Cotten, passed away more than two months ago, and with his death, the keys to the exchange’s cold storage allegedly went to the grave with him.
2019-2-26 22:21 | |
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Justice Wood has appointed legal counsel to represent some 115,000 creditors in incipient legal proceedings against seemingly insolvent cryptocurrency exchange QuadrigaCX, documents published today, February 19, 2019, from the Halifax, Nova Scotia court reveal.
2019-2-20 00:52 | |
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Campaign For Cryptocurrencies Passes 100 Days With Growing Support In India The Indian cryptocurrency market has been affected by a very hard regulatory stand taken by the local government. However, a social media campaign for positive cryptocurrency regulation has received a lot of support from the crypto community. Despite the banking restrictions that apply to […]
2019-2-10 22:57 | |
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Taking selfies and posting them on social media is often derided as a narcissistic, self-absorbed, and attention-seeking practice. Filters come in for particular disdain due to the role they play in reinforcing unattainable beauty standards, by making faces lighter, slimmer, and wider-eyed than is natural.
2019-2-9 19:00 | |
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A social media campaign for positive cryptocurrency regulation in India has passed 100 days with growing support from the community. Despite the ongoing banking restriction imposed by the country’s central bank, local crypto exchanges are reporting increased volumes and optimism about the upcoming regulation.
2019-2-8 14:55 | |
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You can’t discuss the ‘fake news’ phenomenon in India without bringing up WhatsApp. The Facebook-owned messaging service has been constantly under fire after several people were lynched across the country over a misleading video that did the rounds for a year.
2019-1-29 10:28 | |
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Reports on social media indicate that banks in India are threatening customers that deal in Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies with the closure of their accounts. This move is the latest salvo from the banking industry in a country where cryptos seem all but banned.
2019-1-12 17:00 | |
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Cryptocurrency’s first killer application may be well on its way from the rosters of Facebook, a company ironically known for practices contrary to the ethos of decentralized currencies and blockchains, reported South China Morning Post on December 21, 2018.
2018-12-22 15:00 | |
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Facebook, the world’s largest social media website has been reportedly working on a stablecoin to allow WhatsApp users to transfer money. The company’s initial focus is supposedly the remittance market in India.
2018-12-21 13:00 | |
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India’s supreme court has set a new date to hear the petitions against the cryptocurrency banking ban by the country’s central bank. Meanwhile, the crypto community in India is campaigning on social media for “positive regulations” and the rollback of the banking ban.
2018-11-25 07:05 | |
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The cryptocurrency market is going through a rough patch, but this isn’t stopping scammers from duping people out of their funds. Hackers took over the official Twitter account of India’s National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) to promote blatant Bitcoin giveaway scams – a trend that’s been plaguing social media for months now.
2018-11-6 12:47 | |
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A major cryptocurrency exchange in India, Unocoin, has confirmed that it is launching crypto ATMs. While a formal announcement has not been made, an image of one of the exchange’s ATMs spreading on social media suggests that the machines support at least five cryptocurrencies.
2018-10-11 01:20 | |
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Brendan Eich, the CEO of Brave, has written a letter to the U. S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation urging them to implement GDPR-like legislation in the United States.
2018-10-4 20:51 | |
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India’s first Bitcoin exchange and wallet, Zebpay has announced that it is shutting down today. In an email blaster to all the users and announcements on all their social media, the exchange has announced that they will be suspending services as they are out of ways and ideas to continue providing exchange services in the The post [Breaking] Indian Exchange Zebpay is Suspending Exchange Operations appeared first on ItsBlockchain.
2018-9-28 11:09 | |
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India’s first Bitcoin exchange and wallet, Zebpay has announced that it is shutting down today. In an email blaster to all the users and announcements on all their social media, the exchange has announced that they will be suspending services as they are out of ways and ideas to continue providing exchange services in the The post [Breaking] Indian Exchange Zebpay is suspending exchange operations appeared first on ItsBlockchain.
2018-9-28 11:09 | |
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Bitbns, One of India’s Largest Cryptocurrency Exchanges Lists Dash (DASH) Cryptocurrency. The announcement made by Dash cryptocurrency and the Bitbns cryptocurrency exchange on their social pages indicated the addition of the DASH/INR pair for trading.
2018-9-23 01:27 | |
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This week’s top stories include two feature interview: one with Kavita Gupta, founding managing partner at ConsenSys Ventures; and another with electronic dance music DJ Justin Blau (aka DJ 3BLAU) who is launching a decentralized music festival.
2018-8-13 20:52 | |
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ConsenSys, the Ethereum production studio based in the U. S. , launched ConsenSys Ventures last year selecting Kavita Gupta to run two funds of $50 million and $100 million.
2018-8-6 17:40 | |
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1 Oh No this chart is not about Telecom Battle.In my view what is standing between social unrest and educated/unemployed youth in India is FREE data as it keep their minds occupied. Q2 hedge fund letters, conference, scoops etc Enjoy… it will not last forever 2.5. Google trends show Mutual fund search at 18 […]
2018-7-26 15:28 | |
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RBI, the central bank of India, has not made a proper effort to thoroughly research the nature and usage of cryptocurrencies before issuing its crypto ban. This is according to a reply sent by the bank to a Right to Information query filed by a lawyer.
2018-6-13 20:58 | |
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India's central bank Governor Shaktikanta Das has said that while their retail central bank digital currency (CBDC) pilot has over 5 million users, there should not be in any rush to roll out a system-wide CBDC.
India is unlikely to introduce any changes to its controversial tax-deducted-at-source (TDS) policy on Tuesday when Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman reveals her budget for 2024-2025, experts predicted.
G20 nations are set to crystalize crypto policies, the closest we may have come to globally coordinated rules for the industry. India has been at the helm of the efforts as the current president of the G20 and is likely to celebrate the progress during the Leaders' Summit in September.
Trump is getting a rousing reception in India thanks to PM Modi, but that might not help the latter eke out much favors. The post India Spends Millions Wooing Trump but PM Modi’s the Ultimate Loser appeared first on CCN.com
President Trump may have set off a domino effect that sees Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi lose support for the 2024 elections. The post Howdy Modi! President Trump Lands Death Blow Ahead of Indian Summer appeared first on CCN.com
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's right-wing party has been dealt a crushing blow in the Delhi elections of 2020. The post India’s Ruling Right-Wing Party Gets Crushed in Delhi Elections 2020 appeared first on CCN.com