Page 7 - Digital Economy

Pine Labs plans to deploy 150,000 Android POS devices by next fiscal

The company plans to considerably scale up its Android POS network in 2020-21 to 1.5 lakh machines and diversify into newer industries

Taxing digital economy

Analysts are increasing their understanding of it

Digital economy poses challenges to both mkt participants, regulators: CCI

The challenge for the regulator is to put in place a legal and regulatory framework and also provide for appropriate safeguards, the Chairperson said

Consulting firm Accenture opens second innovation hub in India at Hyderabad

The latest addition to Accenture's global innovation network houses 2000 professionals with expertise across multiple industries

Taxing the digital economy

Several corporate giants have benefited by avoiding taxes

Cash in circulation rises, hindering Modi govt's digital economy push

Ratio of currency in circulation to GDP has risen to 11.23 per cent as of March 2019, putting question mark over demonetisation aim.

Centre to tweak competition law and tune it with new-age digital economy

NITI Aayog Vice-Chairman Rajiv Kumar highlighted the need for the CCI to develop oversight capabilities on data-related businesses, so as to prevent the amassing of power in a single conglomerate

Big digital push needed to reach $5-trillion economy: IAMAI report

India's regulatory approach should focus on regulating 'core' industry players, and not entities that fall on the 'edge' of the regulatory spectrum

Zomato, Swiggy face the ire of partners. Time to rethink value proposition?

Is it time for the aggregator brands to rethink their promise to their partners-be it restaurants, airlines and hotels and drivers?

Explained: How brands look at ways to run bad ads off the digital highway

Ad fraud is a scam worth $1.63 billion at present

Avoiding the middle-income trap

In order to transition to true prosperity, middle-income countries need to invest heavily in human capital and improve the quality of education

With G24 backing, India to battle it out with US, UK to tax digital firms

The OECD report on the subject will be finalised in 2020. India has the backing of 28 countries of G24

Digital medium making 'rapid' strides in traditional sectors

Traditional brands sidestep convention to adapt to changing customer behaviour, drive better returns on advertising, and promotion budgets

65% of India's population will use smartphones by 2025, says report

Digital adoption in the country is no longer limited to urban elite or English-speaking population

India has potential to become $1 trillion digital economy by 2025: Report

The report said India had 560 million internet subscriptions in 2018, up from 238.71 million in 2013, making it the second-largest internet subscriptions market in the world

India's digital economy likely to cross $1 trillion by 2022, says KPMG

The report launched at the India Mobile Congress 2018 also forecasts that mobile data usage in the country is likely to surge five times by 2023

India's road to becoming a $1-trn digital economy is full of roadblocks

The country needs to make the right policies to support new-age technologies

The march of digital velocitors

Where the onslaught of automation is stealing jobs from traditional high-growth sectors, 'velocitors' or young companies with the ability to break away from the pack will spur entrepreneurship

Will cash disappear?

Coins and paper currency remain the most popular ways to pay for things in most countries

Cash comes at a cost, nation moving towards digital economy, says FM

Jaitley said some people have problem in accepting the fact that transactions through the digital mode are going to witness rapid growth