Soumyarendra Barik is Special Correspondent with The Indian Express and reports on the intersection of technology, policy and society. With over five years of newsroom experience, he has reported on issues of gig workers’ rights, privacy,...Read More
Soumyarendra Barik is Special Correspondent with The Indian Express and reports on the intersection of technology, policy and society. With over five years of newsroom experience, he has reported on issues of gig workers’ rights, privacy, India’s prevalent digital divide and a range of other policy interventions that impact big tech companies. He once also tailed a food delivery worker for over 12 hours to quantify the amount of money they make, and the pain they go through while doing so. In his free time, he likes to nerd about watches, Formula 1 and football.
Aug 06, 2022 05:23 IST
Musk said that while he supports free speech, Twitter should follow the laws of the countries in...
Sat, Aug 06, 2022Aug 04, 2022 16:12 IST
The Govt says that given the large number of amendments that have been proposed, a comprehensive...
Sat, Aug 06, 2022Aug 03, 2022 17:06 IST
This comes after nearly four years of the Bill being in the works, where it went through multiple...
Thu, Aug 04, 2022Aug 02, 2022 14:36 IST
5G auction: How much spectrum was bought by the applicants? How did Jio, Airtel, Vodafone Idea and...
Tue, Aug 02, 2022Aug 01, 2022 19:27 IST
Jio was the only applicant to have acquired spectrum in the coveted 700 Mhz band, which industry...
Tue, Aug 02, 2022Jul 30, 2022 04:39 IST
The official said that concerns were raised over the possibility of Krafton sharing Indian users’...
Sun, Jul 31, 2022Jul 29, 2022 14:00 IST
Two years after PUBG was banned in India, a rebranded version of the game called Battlegrounds...
Fri, Jul 29, 2022Jul 28, 2022 21:25 IST
Battlegrounds Mobile India (BGMI)--the popular game by Krafton which recently crossed 100 million...
Sun, Jul 31, 2022Jul 28, 2022 13:31 IST
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said a major reason was the current economic downturn that impacted...
Fri, Jul 29, 2022Jul 28, 2022 05:00 IST
In 2021, Twitter was issued 2,851 blocking orders under Section 69(A) of the Information Technology...
Thu, Jul 28, 2022Jul 27, 2022 01:47 IST
A total of 72 GHz of spectrum is up for bidding in the ongoing auction in various high- and...
Wed, Jul 27, 2022Jul 26, 2022 04:30 IST
The draft framework, announced by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MEITY) in...
Tue, Jul 26, 2022Jul 26, 2022 04:30 IST
A total of 72 GHz of airwaves will be up for bidding, with participation from four entities —...
Wed, Jul 27, 2022Jul 25, 2022 14:03 IST
The last time the company’s stock took such a severe beating was after its acquisition of quick...
Thu, Jul 28, 2022Jul 21, 2022 16:52 IST
While Netflix added a significant number of users in Asia Pacific in the June quarter, resulting in...
Fri, Jul 22, 2022Jul 19, 2022 14:33 IST
Reliance Jio has put in an earnest money deposit (EMD) of Rs 1,400 crore compared to Rs 5,500 crore...
Wed, Jul 20, 2022Jul 17, 2022 04:12 IST
Under the draft Bill, entities dealing with users’ personal data are mandated to store a copy of...
Thu, Jul 28, 2022Jul 14, 2022 14:44 IST
Industry insiders and analysts are viewing Adani’s entry into the country’s telecom space as a...
Fri, Jul 15, 2022Jul 14, 2022 01:24 IST
The new law is also expected to have provisions to ensure net neutrality, data privacy, and...
Fri, Jul 15, 2022Jul 12, 2022 13:58 IST
The party has begun to wind down for many startup companies and Unacademy wants to turn cash flow...
Thu, Jul 28, 2022Jul 11, 2022 02:42 IST
The government ordered social media companies to take down 9,849 links from their platforms under...
Mon, Jul 11, 2022Jul 09, 2022 17:41 IST
Elon Musk’s action to bail out of the deal marks the latest twist in a long-running saga after he...
Sat, Jul 09, 2022Jul 08, 2022 02:14 IST
Twitter has told the court that “increasingly” the Ministry has been issuing orders to block...
Fri, Jul 08, 2022Jul 07, 2022 16:19 IST
Amitabh Kant's appointment comes ahead of India assuming the G-20 presidency later this year. India...
Fri, Jul 08, 2022Jul 06, 2022 23:46 IST
The tweet in question included an image of the poster of Manimekalai’s latest documentary Kaali,...
Thu, Jul 07, 2022