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Brands Suddenly Care About Reddit. Redditors Don’t Return the Feeling.

Reddit has moved from marketers’ periphery to the core as they try to influence large language models and consumer choices.

5 min read14 Aug 2026
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Industry

Trai moves to stop 5G fast lanes from slowing other users

Draft quality-of-service rules would require operators to add capacity and remove overloaded cells from network slicing to protect service quality for all users.

5 min read5 Aug 2026
Global

The live shopping app where some people bid until they’re broke

Whatnot’s fast-moving auctions and feverish ‘breaks’ hook users hoping to buy prized sports cards—plus fashion, tools, food and nearly anything else.

13 min read5 Aug 2026
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Industry

GoDaddy challenges Delhi court's 2025 ruling on fake websites, says it could ‘make internet less safe’

GoDaddy, the world's largest internet domain seller, has challenged a 2025 Delhi court order aimed at limiting fake websites, after the court blocked 1,100 websites and announced stringent measures for domain companies.

2 min read5 Jul 2026
Industry

Explainer: Why is India indecisive on satellite internet policy?

Despite securing licences over the past few years, satellite broadband providers including Starlink, OneWeb and Jio-SES remain unable to launch in India as the government withholds final spectrum pricing and security clearances.

4 min read29 Jun 2026
Industry

Satcom companies raise red flag as draft spectrum rules omit satellite broadband

The exclusion of commercial licensing terms from the new draft framework threatens to stall the launch of satellite broadband in India, an industry body representing firms such as OneWeb, Hughes, Nelco and Amazon wrote in a letter to the government.

3 min read23 Jun 2026
Money

Nifty India Internet Index explained: Top holdings, latest returns, sector allocation and funds tracking benchmark

The Nifty India Internet Index tracks the performance of companies that primarily operate through digital and online platforms. The index currently includes 27 stocks, offering exposure to a diverse range of internet-driven businesses.

3 min read23 Jun 2026
Markets

Finance expert Aswath Damodaran's warning on AI crash: 'When the correction comes, the pain will be more intense'

NYU professor Aswath Damodaran has warned that a future AI market correction could be far more damaging than the dot-com crash, as today's AI boom is being fuelled by massive debt-funded infrastructure spending

2 min read20 Jun 2026
Lounge

The cycle of tap, regret, repeat in a frictionless world

As most tasks on our devices now take just a tap, people are reckoning with the wide-ranging downsides of frictionless design, from financial loss and reputational damage

6 min read19 Jun 2026
News

India's mobile data costs plunge 97% since 2014 as internet users cross 105 crore

Mobile data costs have fallen by more than 97% since 2014, while internet connections have crossed 105 crore, and broadband subscriptions are nearing the 100-crore mark.

2 min read11 Jun 2026