India’s tech news
January 2023 round-up
Tech news headlines from India in January 2023 covered items and subjects including iris-scanning fintech, government concerns over live-streaming e-commerce providers, India’s lithium ion batteries aspirations and more.
And for our other editions, spanning daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly updates on Asia’s technology spaces, here’s an outline.
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- India: Government reportedly to launch Digital India Innovation Fund to focus on developing deep-tech startups
- India: Reserve Bank may soon allow Mastercard and Visa cards to be linked to national Unified Payments Interface
- India: Gov’t is considering regulatory framework to govern ‘live commerce’, with Bureau of Indian Standards in contact with stakeholders to assess the need for guidelines
- Non-resident Indians living abroad in 10 countries and with bank accounts in India will soon be able to use Unified Payments Interface platforms with international mobile numbers
- India: Mastercard onboards 1 million smallhold Indian farmers to Farm Pass platform, connecting farmers with consumers to streamline processes and lower costs
“This raises substantial privacy concerns especially when India lacks a dedicated law on privacy, cybersecurity and facial recognition,” said Pavan Duggal, an advocate and cyber law expert.
- India: Gov’t reportedly allowing banks to verify some transactions using facial recognition and iris scans, aiming to beat fraud but highlighting lack of protective legislation
- India: Gov’t proposes making Press Bureau and its other agencies the final arbiters of truth on what information is misleading online, forcing social media firms to adhere to their judgment
- India: Log9 battery startup raises $40M, aiming to commission the country’s first fully-integrated lithium ion cell production line
- India and ‘net blocking: “The total number of websites, URLs, applications, social media posts and accounts that are blocked in India within the time period from 2015 to 2022 are 55,607…”
Finding 404: A report on internet blocking in India
More of Asia’s tech news headlines
The monthly collections listed by country, above, are drawn from our daily Asia tech news updates, which go out on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and via mobile app.
We also deliver weekly updates in newsletter formats, via LinkedIn and Substack; and each of those also provides our tech newsletters in web format, for reading online.
Beyond these, we also produce quarterly collections, gathering a jurisdiction’s technology news into 3-monthly digests each year.
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