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Sridhar Vembu’s Arattai, India’s yearning for swadeshi and network effects
The Zoho co-founder’s attempt to build a WhatsApp competitor has captured the imagination of the nationalist Indian. Emotions aside, the most likely outcome is that Zoho’s other products will start selling more.
04 Oct 2025
Google, Perplexity, Meta, Amazon… how the West won India
Thanks to millions of Indians with cheap data connections and little to do, Big Tech continues to make giant strides in the country. The narrative of an atmanirbhar Bharat in technology is now dead in the water.
19 Jul 2025
Meta appoints Arun Srinivas as MD and head of India operations
He will work with Sandhya Devanathan, who used to head the tech giant’s India operations before taking on a larger role leading both India and Southeast Asia
16 Jun 2025
How Community Notes works and why it really doesn’t
Meta says it is replacing its third-party fact-checking programme with what X has in place to fight misinformation. Not the brightest of ideas.
12 Jan 2025
India's draft personal data protection rules intend to protect children, but may still come up short
Reacting to the recently released draft rules, experts say they will likely fail in their objective unless a lot more work goes into creating public awareness and finding feasible solutions.
09 Jan 2025
Meta to contest CCI ruling over WhatsApp privacy concerns
The competition watchdog fined the tech giant $25.4 million, prohibiting it from sharing user data for ads across its platforms earlier this week.
19 Nov 2024
Can Umang Bedi write a new script for Dailyhunt?
The digital media company appears to have quietly changed its strategy, after the failure of its short-video platform Josh and amid a rush to get to a public listing.
25 Aug 2024
Meta approved harmful political ads during Indian election, says report
The tech giant allegedly approved a series of AI-manipulated political advertisements that spread disinformation and incited religious violence.
21 May 2024
The deceit of India’s TikTok clones
A lot of money was spent on building a home-grown social media success story. The only thing that got built was fundraising pitch decks.
16 Oct 2023
The myths and paradoxes of Silicon Valley
Utopian projects, history tells us, have usually ended in disaster. Perhaps we are already living through the disastrous effects of Silicon Valley utopianism without realizing it.
24 Jul 2023