Tech giant Google has launched its first India-focused cohort of the Newsroom Leadership program, in collaboration with the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Surabhi Malik, Program Director, Google News Initiative India Training Network, announced in a blog post.
Future Retail Ltd (FRL) is likely to approach various courts and tribunals including the Supreme Court, National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) and the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC), bringing to their notice the latest order by the Competition Commission of India (CCI) that has put Amazon’s investment into a Future Group promoter company in limbo. The company is likely to ask the courts to ‘terminate’ all pending cases related to the sale of its retail assets to Reliance Retail, in the wake of the CCI order, two people familiar with the matter... Read More >
After almost two years of deliberations, the spotlight is back on the Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019 against the backdrop of the Parliament’s ongoing winter session. A 30-member Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC), headed by BJP MP PP Chaudhary, tabled its report with recommendations to the Bill in the two houses of the Parliament on Thursday.
Microsoft has confirmed that Reddit has blocked its Bing search engine from crawling content; Reddit seems to have blocked DuckDuckGo too. Reddit content will still appear in Google search results, but then Google has paid Reddit $60 million to allow it to train its AI models on that content. Reddit says the block has nothing to do with the Google deal: okay.