India May Soon Force Facebook, WhatsApp to Identify Users Posting Sensitive Messages The Indian government is reportedly planning to enact sweeping changes to the local intermediary liability rules, making it incumbent on social media companies and OTT messaging services, like Facebook and WhatsApp, to identify any user for posting content deemed problematic by the establishment. That’s according toTechCrunch, which says the government will submit the suggested changes to the Supreme Court later this month in spite of serious concerns expressed by technology experts and civil rights activists alike....

Netflix Added 8.8 Million Subscribers in the Face of Growing Competition At its latest earnings call on Tuesday, Netflix reported a net subscriber addition of 8.8 million, most of which came from outside the United States. According to the company, it ended Q4, 2019, with 167 million paid subscribers globally, more than 100 million of which are in international markets. It also reported higher-than-projected revenues, which stood at $4.5 billion for the quarter, bringing its total 2019 revenues to more than $20 billion....

Online Transactions in Delhi-NCR Grew 235% in 2019 Digital transactions in Delhi-NCR grew by 235 per cent from 2018 (January-December) to 2019 (January-December) and the region was the third most digitised state in 2019, thus, contributing 13.05 per cent in 2019 (up from 10.9 per cent in 2018), said a new report by full-stack financial services company Razorpay on Tuesday. “The last year has been buzzing for the fintech sector in Delhi, with the adoption of new digital payment modes and bringing the digital currency to the mainstream....

Poco F1 Gets Much-Awaited Stable Android 10 Update For the longest time, we could only hear the crickets chirp in Poco’s camp. There were no regular updates from the company that rocked the budget flagship market in India but it’snow back on track. And while we await an official word on thePoco F2(at least that’s what we expect it to be called), the Poco F1 has now started receiving the much-awaitedAndroid 10-based MIUI 11 update....

PUBG for PC Gets Smaller Karakin Map, Black Zone, and More in New Update PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, better known as PUBG, has been pushing out a slew of impressive updates, of recent. We saw the battle royale gameintroduce throwables and vending machinesa couple of months ago. And now, PUBG for PC hasreceivedamajor new updatethat swaps out the cold terrains of Vikendi for a smaller new islandic map Karakin. There’s also new weapons, vehicles, and other features added with version 6....

PUBG Mobile Ban: Chandigarh Lawyer Files PIL Comparing the Game to Drugs Since its introduction on smartphones,PUBG Mobilehas seen enormous growth and has become something of a sensation in India. However, while players love the game, there have been multiple cases of the game resulting in people, especially kids, becoming addicted to it and not focusing on anything other than the game. That very issue was raised multiple times back in 2019 in India, and the game was eventemporarily bannedin multiple regions in the country including in Gujarat, and now, a Chandigarh based lawyer has filed a PIL seeking a ban on the game....

Vodafone Quits Facebook’s Libra Cryptocurrency Project Vodafone has become the latest big player who have decided to quit Facebook’s controversial Libra cryptocurrency project. Vodafone joins PayPal, Mastercard, Visa, Mercado Pago, eBay, Stripe and Booking Holdings in withdrawing from the controversial project — and is the first company to exit after the Libra Association was formed in October last year, coindesk reported on Tuesday. The companies left owing to concerns about heightened regulatory scrutiny....