In a freewheeling chat with Fortune India and editorji, Facebook India head Ajit Mohan talks about the social media giant’s take on the new IT norms, and its views on privacy, among other things.
Facebook earned its chops by connecting people. Its next big bets are on content creators and small businesses. And aiding it are Whatsapp and Instagram.
Although social media has been in the news for all the wrong reasons of late, recent trends and new companies that are coming up point towards an exciting future.
Home-grown microblogging app Koo—which provides non-English speakers a platform to express themselves—is the flavour of the season. But can it compete with Big Tech and other domestic platforms?
To understand data privacy, we need to question data's fundamental nature. Does it possess the qualities of a 'property' that can be bought and sold? Or instead, should we treat it as 'information'?
Paytm is rallying Indian developers for its mini app store in a bid to challenge Google’s dominance in the market. It also fits squarely into its plans of being a super app. Will it succeed?
Facebook’s recent event was all about how businesses in India had pivoted in the time of the Covid-19 pandemic. But the reasons behind the resilience of Indian enterprise, however, are manifold.
Facebook’s WhatsApp Pay is the latest player to enter India’s payments space, which already has Alphabet’s Google Pay, Walmart’s PhonePe, Amazon Pay, and Alibaba-backed Paytm.
According to reports from Facebook India-BCG on mobile phones, FMCG, and apparel, more and more consumers are being driven by online resources during the pandemic.
