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Rediff's Wave Rider Retires!

After steering the Rediff mothership for close to 29 years, Ajit Balakrishnan, founder, chairman and CEO, did what few businessmen in this country do -- R-E-T-I-R-E. On August 2, 2024, we were......

Will Name Change Erase Faceook's Toxic Reality?

Adversarial Harmful Networks -- India Case Study, cited in Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen's SEC complaints, revealed, among other things, that Facebook was a preferred platform for......

Of broken hearts and folded hands

Although Kamini has only studied till class five, she quickly got the hang of sending audio messages before her life turned upside down, reports Geetanjali Krishna.Illustrations: Uttam......

Monitoring WhatsApp: Privacy vs law and order

Steps taken to prevent misuse of the platform have to be balanced with data privacy and security concerns, say experts. IMAGE: Many legal experts feel asking WhatsApp to do the job of the......

Fake news and its dimensions

Complicated social phenomena behind it, says Ajit Balakrishnan.Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com Suddenly, the word on practically everyone's lips is 'fake news'. In a simpler, less......

India is a very special and important country: Zuckerberg

Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday said India is a very special and important country with a remarkable entrepreneurship culture, as he sought to push deeper the just-launched......

Net neutrality and the privacy debate

Indian policy-makers must see the choices before them as economic, not moral, ones, says Ajit Balakrishnan.Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com The average citizen who looks at the Internet as......

What the Internet holds for India in 2018

Or, what will the Indian policy process allow it to be, says Ajit Balakrishnan. Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com Our (India's) single-minded embrace of Digital reminds me of our single- minded......

Byju's, Ola, Flipkart: One Chinese company is investing millions in them!

Tencent reinforces India's consumer internet story. Ranju Sarkar reports. IMAGE: Tencent recently invested an undisclosed amount in education technology start-up Byju's, and is now set to invest......

Apple, Facebook eye control of digital payments IP in India

Both firms have made several applications for patents pertaining to digital payments in the country Apple has submitted at least five applications with the Indian Patent office over the past one......

Review: Premium Rush is a very fast ride

Raja Sen thinks Premium Rush is a very tight film.At a time of overtly high-concept films, films that look like something but are defiantly something else entirely, films that mashup various genres......

Review: This Porkkalam is a dud

If Mani Ratnam was one among the best to re-imagine epics in ultra-modern formats, it's the turn of Bandi Saroj Kumar to take a hand in re-making Ramayana, one of India's greatest epics to suit......

Kolkata 2001: The Odyssey, viewed from the sidelines

20 years ago this week, India and Australia played one of the greatest Test matches in cricket history.Sreehari Nair relives the sound and the fury of that unforgettable game at the Eden Gardens.......

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