The parliamentary panel on finance, chaired by Sinha, presented a report in December identifying 10 anti-competitive practices in digital markets and a need for ex-ante regulations to address them
"Everything we think about, we can test in India, learn from it, and also help our domestic market to grow, because we have some new skills"
'For smartphones, India became the second largest market in the world around five years ago'
Says Indian financial sector should be preferred banking partner for start-ups
The study is based on a survey of 250 employers and 500 employees of organisations from 12 sectors conducted by digital talent company NLB Services and NTT DATA
Karat offers a data-enabled technology platform and combines it with human interviewers
Sources said many start-ups which had deposits in SVB have shared worries about possible burdens due to compliance checks and taxes to be applied while bringing the money to India
The meeting discussed the possible incentives that can be given to the private sector to open the non-personal datasets held by them
Meity may meet advisory group on e-commerce and cyber laws; meanwhile US lawmakers rush to sell SVB assets and make portion of uninsured deposits available to account holders as early as Monday
Govt panel concludes stakeholder discussion on digital competition law
Govt likely to make amendments to IPC and CrPC in tandem with the enactment of the Digital India Act to effectively deal with new types of cybercrimes
In the past, the government has cautioned social media platforms that they could lose safe harbours for not complying with Indian laws
The imbalance is more evident in the compensation offered to male and female employees in the IT sector
HCLTech Q-Labs, which incubates early-stage research programs, is now a part of the Azure Quantum Network, the ecosystem of quantum innovators and pioneers
According to sources, the Bill will shortly get presented to the Cabinet and is ready to get tabled in Parliament during the ongoing Budget session
Pandemic has decoupled the GDP growth and tech spends, it says
Delayed decision-making, economic uncertainty, and inflation along with demand contraction in some markets are expected to be the major headwinds for the sector
A silver lining amid news of mass layoffs is that the IT industry remains a net employer with over 5.4 million in the workforce; it created 290,000 new jobs in FY23, Nasscom said
Indian IT companies are facing challenges in re-establishing the work-from-office model of pre-pandemic times
Users must appeal to the GAC within 30 days of receiving a communication from a grievance officer in case of a dispute