MUMBAI, Oct 16 (Reuters) – An influential right-wing Hindu organization linked to India’s ruling party has asked for checks on streaming platforms and cryptocurrencies, saying control was fundamental. “There is a need to regularise these things for the greater good of the community,” stated Mohan Bhagwat, leader of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, the ideological progenitor of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party. OTT platforms like Netflix (NFLX.O) and Amazon’s Prime Video (AMZN.O) have faced trials and police probes, mostly in BJP-ruled provinces, for content considered inflammatory and aggressive to the country’s majority Hindu community. Netflix, Amazon, and Walt Disney Co (DIS.N), another influential OTT…
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Swile has raised a further $200 million in funds increase financed by Japan’s Softbank (9434.T), striving at extending its business globally and beyond corporate interests services, the French startup announced on Monday. Through this capital gain, Swile, which provides automated meal vouchers and other employee benefits to businesses such as Carrefour (CARR.PA), Spotify (SPOT.N), and Airbnb (ABNB.O), joined the country’s burgeoning ranks of tech unicorns or startups evaluated at $1 billion or more. The company, which includes Eurazeo (EURA.PA), Index Ventures, and bpifrance among its investors, said it had achieved a 13% share in the corporate benefits market since its start four years ago in…
One of the worst-kept mysteries in the gaming society has been settled: Rockstar Games is re-releasing three more Grand Theft Auto games. The package includes Grand Theft Auto III, GTA: Vice City, and GTA: San Andreas. The Grand Theft Auto package: The Trilogy — The Definitive Edition is arriving at Nintendo Switch, PS4, PS5, Xbox 1, Xbox Series X/S series, and Desktop following this year. The package will also land on iOS and Android in the first half of 2022. Rockstar announces the revamped games will have improved visuals and “modern gameplay improvements” while maintaining the look and feel of…
It’s been a big week for cryptocurrency dealers especially Shiba Inu holders. On Wednesday, Bitcoin rose to a five-month high of $55,735.52, according to CoinDesk. The main cause? CNBC states that Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Securities and Exchange Commission chair Gary Gensler both verified they don’t have plans to limit cryptocurrency trading. But Bitcoin isn’t the only crypto up in the past 48 hours. Other coins such as Ethereum and Chainlink are both up over 5% too. Yet while 5% might be a good profit on any individual trading day, there’s one coin that’s surpassed all the others this week. Shiba Inu (SHIB) is…
Hong Kong: President Of China Xi Jinping pledged to pursue “reunification” with Taiwan by nonviolent means in a talk in Beijing on Saturday. Talking in the Great Hall of the People to celebrate the 110th anniversary of the uprising that ended the country’s last royal dynasty, Xi said the biggest barrier to the reunification of China was the “Taiwan independence” unit. “Those who forget their culture, betray their motherland, and seek to divide the country will come to no good,” Xi said. Taiwan and mainland China have been administered independently since the conclusion of a civil war more than seven decades…
Berlin, Germany: The court hearing of a 100-year old former SS Nazi guard will begin on Thursday in Brandenburg, a der Havel town Germany. He is indicted of being an accomplice to murder in 3,518 incidents beginning from his time as the security personnel at the Nazi concentration camp in Sachsenhausen, said but to the Neuruppin public prosecutor’s department. The arrested allegedly served at the former concentration camp in Sachsenhausen as a prison security personnel from 1942-1945; in that time, tens of thousands of inmates perished at the camp due to forced labor, starvation, sickness, medical experiments, and abuse. More than…
Facebook creator and founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted a firm backing of his business, claiming that the recent allegations by a whistleblower and former representative of the social media giant, which said the social network prioritized money over security, “don’t make any sense.” Zuckerberg’s statement came in the wake of ex-Facebook product director Frances Haugen’s statement before the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, over the papers she gave to the Wall Street Journal. Haugen asserted the social media giant’s risks, from influencing kids to feeding misinformation and encouraging political violence. https://twitter.com/andymstone/status/1445403468945055755?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1445441835011383298%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es3_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.usatoday.com%2Fstory%2Ftech%2F2021%2F10%2F05%2Ffacebook-whistleblower-haugen-zuckerberg-congress-demands-answers%2F6011904001%2F Zuckerberg denied the allegations made by Haugen in…