The Verge

JUNE 5, 2021

India’s government has told Twitter it could face “unintended consequences” if it fails to comply with the country’s new social media rules, Reuters reported. Twitter has tangled with the Indian government on several fronts in recent months. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2021

Here’s a sampling of what we tried to recap on the show: Didi vs. China: The Chinese government’s crackdown on Didi continued over the weekend, after announcing a cybersecurity review of the company on Friday. Twitter vs. India: India’s attempts to cow Twitter into not enacting its own content moderation policies continues.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 17, 2022

Sequoia Capital India, one of the most prolific and successful investors in India and Southeast Asia, addressed the fraudulent practices allegations levelled against some of its portfolio startups and pledged to take proactive steps to do more to drive increased compliance. Implementation of whistleblower policies.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2022

On a clear afternoon, Laxmi (name changed) was sitting in her office in Gujarat, India, when she received a message from her distant relative, saying that they received some of her “morphed” nude photos from multiple phone numbers on WhatsApp along with a text that reads, “loan thief.”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

We propose that governments should systematically support funding for their diaspora founders, not just founders locally. Our proposal is that many governments that are not major tech hubs (i.e., China, Israel and India) should stop restricting themselves to supporting locally domiciled VC funds.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 21, 2023

India’s parliament has passed a telecommunications bill that replaces its century-old rules as the country, with over 1.17 billion telephone connections and 881 million internet subscribers, aims to modernize connectivity and embrace new services including satellite broadband, just months before general elections.

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The Verge

AUGUST 11, 2021

Twitter is now complying with the Indian government’s new internet rules, a lawyer representing the federal government has told a court in Delhi, Bloomberg reports. Government previously said Twitter had lost legal immunity. The Indian government has also been unhappy with Twitter’s moderation policies.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

India has announced new regulations for social networks and other web services in the country, particularly “significant social media” companies with large user bases, like Facebook and Twitter. India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MEITY) announced the rules earlier today. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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TechNode

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

After a four-and-a-half-year ban, Shein, the Chinese fast-fashion giant, is making a comeback in India a market it was abruptly shut out of in 2020 alongside more than 200 other Chinese apps. Shein’s re-entry into the country could further invigorate India’s textile industry.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

India is the second largest demographic represented in the new batch. For companies in India, founders no longer have to spend three months away from their customers or teams. When it comes to choosing founders in India, we accept them based on the same criteria we judge companies from anywhere else.

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The Verge

APRIL 28, 2021

Last weekend, Twitter hid tweets critical of various officials after receiving an emergency order from the government. India is currently currently seeing another wave in COVID-19 cases, which has lead to critical medical supplies being in short supply.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

The commitment is contained under the 24/7 Carbon-free Energy Compact , by leading energy buyers, suppliers, equipment manufacturers and governments, representing a global effort to accelerate the uptake of carbon-free electricity as a way of averting the perilous effects of climate change. Image Credits: Husk Power Systems.

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The Verge

AUGUST 15, 2021

A Twitter spokesperson said in an email to The Verge that Gandhi submitted a copy of an authorization letter from the people in the image to the company’s India Grievance Channel , and his account was reinstated. On August 10th, the government determined that Twitter was in compliance with the rules.

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The Verge

JULY 9, 2020

More than 16 million of the pulled videos came from users in India. The United States and India were also YouTube’s top markets for video removals. The United States and India were also YouTube’s top markets for video removals. TikTok’s video removals by and large do not stem from government requests or copyright complaints.

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TechCrunch

JULY 2, 2021

The move comes amid a larger reset of relations between China’s burgeoning technology sector and its autocratic government. China is not the only nation grappling with its technology sector; India has made consistent noise in recent months regarding tech firms inside its borders, for example. And there is effort inside the U.S.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

India’s central bank has enforced several measures to cool down high growth in consumer credit in a move that will impact consumer spending and many startups in the South Asian market, industry executives said.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

On Saturday, the Chinese government rolled out legislation aimed at easing the financial burden of education services on families, at the cost of venture-backed startups. And everyone seems to be looking to India as the next geographic testing ground. -based consumer edtech, which saw parent adoption surge during the pandemic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 14, 2012

In the LinkedIn discussion, Suzanne McDonald gives the example of Coca Cola, which is funding AIDS prevention in Africa but being sued in India for contaminating groundwater. Is the work in Africa worth the lives of those in India? You get a variety of opinions, options to weigh, and ways to proceed (policy about funders anyone?)

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

In India, news is out that a new law could ban Bitcoin (whatever that means), and this morning India forced Twitter to take down some accounts that had been critical of government policy. Here’s what we talked about: American stocks are set to rise, bitcoin is flat and meme-stocks are mixed.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2020

The Singaporean government continues to create new initiatives that make it attractive to tech companies and entrepreneurs. ” Government policy pays off. “That’s always been a very explicit part of the government’s strategy to grow the tech industry.” Regulations also play a role.

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The NonProfit Times

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

International nonprofits and other non-government organizations (NGOs) need American support to function, or even exist, a trio of witnesses told U.S. The Nicaraguan government has closed down 1,500 nonprofits, including religious organizations, human rights groups and even the American Chamber of Commerce, Rutzen added.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Alphabet Inc’s Google is close to deciding on locations in its key market of India where it will open its first physical retail stores outside the United States, three sources familiar with the matter said. Google counts India as a key growth market , where it has committed to investing $10 billion. Aditya Kalra, Reuters

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2010

A Policy Update from an engineer, Jim Fruchterman of Benetech June 8, 2010 The international copyright negotiations in Geneva around a proposed Treaty for the Visually Impaired (“TVI”) have been steadily heating up. Counterproposals have been made, governments have been engaging with rights holders, consumers and NGOs (or not!)

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2021

federal government is in a unique position to help realize those rewards. To understand what I mean, cast your eyes to Europe, where it’s become clear that the GDPR was nowhere near the final destination of EU data policy. There are so many ways governments can help businesses maximize their data leverage in ways that improve society.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Beyond just giving women money, F5 Collective wants to create generational change for a billion women across India, Southeast Asia and Australia. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 8, 2023

tech companies has opposed the Indian government’s proposal against dark patterns, which are used to deceive online users, and said the move would adversely affect the state promise of enabling “ease of doing business” in the economy and bring “regulatory overlap” with existing laws.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

It’s been more than three years since I visited my family in India and I would love to do that now, but I worry about how long it will take to get my H-1B visa to return to the U.S. Department of State (DoS) has implemented policies to reduce the time it takes to obtain a visa stamp at U.S. Even though the U.S.

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The Verge

JUNE 23, 2021

While we haven’t seen any reports of China flat-out outlawing cryptocurrencies, the government started issuing warnings about trading and mining cryptocurrencies in May, and told the country’s financial giants they would have to stop dealing in crypto. Graph: University of Cambridge.

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Tableau

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Over the past year, PolicyLink helped drive the conversation around the need for equity-based solutions to COVID-19 with a comprehensive plan and set of policy priorities for pandemic response. It’s critical to connect our data and policy proposals with narrative and communications,” Kirschenbaum says. .

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 14, 2009

That worries me, because I don’t think I’ve heard about a groundswell of demand for changing Chafee in the United States, other than when one textbook publisher's representatives get up in public and sound like banking executives from five years ago (if the government would just stop regulating us, we'd take care of everything).

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Firms looking to raise funds from public offers will now be required by law to disclose their key performance indicators and issuing pricing based on past transactions and private funding rounds in their offer documents, the Securities and Exchange Board of India said in a statement. India gets its S-1. and Canadian startups enjoy.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

such as India and China. The reason for the urgency is that even though the EB-1 green card category remains current in December for all individuals regardless of where they were born, that’s expected to change for individuals born in India or China.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Pawelski also notes that India will not support J-1 waivers for medical doctors educated in India, and that Thailand and the Philippines are very strict about supporting waivers. Even waiver requests for Fulbright scholars that were filed by NASA and the National Science Foundation have been denied.

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Tableau

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Over the past year, PolicyLink helped drive the conversation around the need for equity-based solutions to COVID-19 with a comprehensive plan and set of policy priorities for pandemic response. It’s critical to connect our data and policy proposals with narrative and communications,” Kirschenbaum says. .

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The NonProfit Times

APRIL 15, 2024

Philanthropy expenditures in India have grown by an average annual rate of 13% during the past five years, reaching the equivalent of $280 billion. NITI Aayog sources estimated the demand for philanthropic aid in India at $426 billion during FY2023. The good news is giving in India is growing. That amount constituted 8.3%

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

M&A action : Manish reports that India-based fintech CRED is acquiring CreditVidya, a SaaS startup specializing in underwriting first-time borrowers. Natasha L reports that Twitter is no longer enforcing its COVID misleading information policy when it comes to virus posts. : Nigerian restaurant tech company Orda gobbled up $3.4

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The NonProfit Times

AUGUST 20, 2024

Evaluations regarding readiness to adopt AI were based on the organizations’ data collection practices, data policies, presence of technical staff and current use of AI. We also don’t know how to govern these systems and have mostly left them to the devices of the market, which does not have social well being at heart.

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