Page 45 - Social Media

India must start work on replacing coal plants with renewable: Rahul Munjal

Hero Future Energies' chairman and managing director Rahul Munjal speaks on on social media, sustainability and energy efficiency

Why users are logging out of Twitter and joining the Mastodon bandwagon

Earlier this week, several users left twitter after a protest that began with suspension of SC lawyer Sanjay Hegde's account and conservation on Twitter's discriminatory policies

Social media firms grilled on Russia ads

The ridicule came Senator Al Franken, who expressed amazement that Facebook had failed to detect Russians were behind American political ads

Privacy can't be shield of terrorists and the corrupt: Ravi Shankar Prasad

We are creating information highways, and the biggest success of India's information highways is that we are touching lives of common people, he added

Hate speech & trolling! How social media is pitching us against one another

Algorithms used by Google and others aren't left or right, but they do have a "downward" bias

Social media must guard against misuse of platforms, says Prasad

The right of accessing the Internet is 'not negotiable' and if the Internet is designed for common good, it should be safe and secure, he added

Proposed changes in IT rules will lead to over-censorship, warns Mozilla

The comments come after the government last month disclosed plans to amend the IT rules

Social media officials to meet TN secy over data sharing case on Wednesday

The meeting with social networking platforms was to be held between May 20-27

India firm on stopping terrorists from abusing social media: R S Prasad

He was speaking at the inaugural session of the fifth edition of the Global Conference on Cyber Space

How social commerce is becoming the new frontier in online shopping

Start-ups such as Meesho, VMall and BulBul.TV are getting into areas that were left untouched by e-commerce majors

Social media ads appeal less to 20-45 years age group: Report

Social media drives better reach and brand impact among 15-19 age group

Who gets your Facebook, Twitter when you're gone? You can bequeath by will

Like your physical possessions, you should plan to pass on your digital contents and social media accounts also to your loved ones in a systematic manner

SC seeks govt's reply on framework for Aadhaar linking of social media a/cs

The apex court was hearing a transfer petition moved by Facebook

Social media norms: SC allows transfer of pleas from high courts to itself

Facebook had said that transfer of cases would serve the interests of justice by avoiding the possibility of conflicting decisions from the high courts

Social media on autopilot: Top four firms running without a head in India

Companies such as Facebook, WhatsApp and Twitter are however finding it extremely difficult to rope in new India heads

Best of BS Opinion: Protecting social media users, checking regulators

Here's a selection of Business Standard opinion pieces for the day

Social media may be future of entertainment: Should it be regulated?

Social media entertainment is certainly part of the gig economy. It's inherently unstable, with huge growth over a ten year period

Meet author Chetan Bhagat, the enfant terrible of social media

In his latest tweet Bhagat said, 'Expecting politics without corruption is like expecting jalebis without sugar and oil'

Social media payment infrastructure likely to consolidate into UPI

Social media payments would become a mainstream offering within the next 12-18 months

How Delhi Airport upstaged Changi with a starry turn on social media

IGI Airport is among top 5 global and first among Asian airports on social media, marking a shift in the way public spaces are viewed and branded