Author: Krishnapriya Prabhakaran

India’s leading e-commerce companies, Flipkart and Google cloud have formed a multi-year strategic partnership to help accelerate Flipkart’s innovation and cloud strategy. According to a statement, the alliance is expected to enable Flipkart to move into its next phase of growth, which is to advance its vision of onboarding India’s next 200 million shoppers and lakhs of sellers. The firm said in an official release that the partnership would allow the website to use Google Cloud’s advanced data analytics and machine learning technologies to make its data platform more efficient. Flipkart Partnership Strategy : Ever missed out on a sale…

The internet is seen as a place to receive a multitude of opportunities, from creative ingenuity and innovation, virtual spaces bring many things to life, but it has also brought existing problems, especially gender discrimination to online spaces. Women’s safety is a major issue online or offline, something that breaks through several guidelines set across platforms to help curb the matter. If the internet is supposed to be an open, accepting space to host different communities, it must begin by ensuring the safety and security of women participating in online spaces.   Let’s take today to celebrate and encourage practices online…

The recent attack on Europe’s largest nuclear power plant in Ukraine by Russian military forces triggered fears across the globe after it was claimed that one of the energy six reactors caught on fire on Saturday. Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy posted an emotional video saying he feared an explosion would be “the end for everyone. The end for Europe. The evacuation of Europe”. Reports came out earlier today that heavy fighting at the site of the nuclear reactor set off a fire in a training building at the site. It was confirmed after the chief of the UN’s International Atomic…

When we interact with media on the internet, be it news, images or video content, most people are not going to think about whether the information they receive is accurate. It could be anything related to an ongoing global issue or even celebrities and the entertainment field, 90% of the people engaging with that content will not think twice about whether it’s true or not. With the rise of social media activism, mobile journalism, and common citizens receiving daily news from most online sources, it’s important to have the ability to differentiate from the truth and plain misinformation. This is…

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar held a consultative committee meeting on Thursday to discuss the process of evacuation of Indian students stranded in Ukraine; the minister denoted that any allegations of delays in the evacuation plans are false. He stated that students were unsure of leaving their universities, and doubted their academic position even though Ukrainian authorities were giving assurances on the situation. The 21-member committee met for the first time since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began. The panel is headed by Mr Jaishankar, who along with Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla, lead the discussion. Nine MPs from six…

Apple announced on Wednesday that it will be finally hosting its annual spring launch event on March 8th this year. According to previous rumours, Apple is expected to likely reveal the third edition to the iPhone SE line, along with a revamped iPad Air and new Mac products. Tech enthusiasts also speculated whether the company would unveil Apple’s next-generation M2 chip that has been hinted to be in the works for a long time. A sneak peek of the event was released a few days ago by Apple’s senior vice president of Marketing, Greg Joswiak in a tweet, it looks…

Kiren Rijiju, the Minister for Law and Justice, who is currently in Slovakia to oversee the evacuation of Indian nationals stranded in Ukraine said that the huge evacuation process of students will require a high level of intervention, especially considering the number of Indian students that are being evacuated. He added that PM Modi has delegated four senior ministers to complete the job successfully. Rijiju is one of the four ‘special envoys’ deployed by the central government to supervise the evacuation process of Indian nationals in Ukraine’s neighboring countries under ‘Operation Ganga’. He reached the Slovakian city of Kosice on…

In a time where digital diplomacy is the new norm for furthering foreign policy for different countries, social media becomes a key component of addressing issues and exchanging opinions on different geopolitical affairs by the general population that frequent these internet platforms.  An extensive number of embassies, their ambassadors and world leaders have Twitter accounts and post media content and news on Instagram daily to the masses. During times of conflict, wars or a nationwide crisis, the information about such events are amplified through social media. It can be information regarding the state of the situation, funds to receive donations…

The general public may not visibly know Ukraine’s influence in the global tech environment, but the country has been the birthplace of many leading tech apps, including WhatsApp, Snapchat, Grammarly and PayPal. Amid the ongoing war in Ukraine and intensifying attacks from the Russian forces, the country’s technology sector has taken the initiative to help defend their land against attacks in cyberspace, as well as providing funds for the Ukrainian army and many tech startups and established companies making an effort to relocate their employees to safer regions. Recently, Forbes Ukraine tech editor Mike Sapiton tweeted a thread of products…

On Tuesday, the instant messaging platform WhatsApp announced that it had blocked around 1,858,000 accounts in India in January in compliance with the new IT Rules, 2021. According to the monthly report, the company said that it also received 495 grievance reports, which appealed to ban 285 accounts, out of which 24 accounts received action in the same month from the country. The complaints by the users were received through its grievances division and the company’s own method to prevent and detect law violators. A WhatsApp spokesperson commented on the report by confirming that they had published their eighth monthly…