New internet trends

Smartphone sales fell year-on-year for the first time globally

Mary Meeker’s annual report on internet trends is among the most highly anticipated slide deck in Silicon Valley. That’s because Ms Meeker, who founded the billion dollar fund Bond Capital, has an unerring instinct for pinpointing the future direction of the digital economy. The focus of the 2019 edition is on data, the ways in which companies, regulators and countries handle it, and the concerns as data floods the Net. Alongside security and privacy concerns, there are issues about regulation, moderation and privacy management. India has been rated as a “moderately regulated” economy and there are concerns about political, social,