Soumyarendra Barik is Special Correspondent with The Indian Express and reports on the intersection of technology, policy and society. With over five years of newsroom experience, he has reported on issues of gig workers’ rights, privacy,...Read More
Soumyarendra Barik is Special Correspondent with The Indian Express and reports on the intersection of technology, policy and society. With over five years of newsroom experience, he has reported on issues of gig workers’ rights, privacy, India’s prevalent digital divide and a range of other policy interventions that impact big tech companies. He once also tailed a food delivery worker for over 12 hours to quantify the amount of money they make, and the pain they go through while doing so. In his free time, he likes to nerd about watches, Formula 1 and football.
Apr 29, 2022 03:51 IST
“Apart from offering financial incentives to companies to set up semiconductor fabs in the...
Fri, Apr 29, 2022Apr 29, 2022 03:40 IST
Startups from across the board ranging from industries like ed-tech, e-commerce, financial...
Fri, Apr 29, 2022Apr 26, 2022 12:37 IST
Elon Musk's idea of defeating bots and providing every human-operated Twitter account with a...
Thu, Apr 28, 2022Apr 26, 2022 11:11 IST
Swiggy has announced a programme for its delivery executives to transition to a dedicated,...
Tue, Apr 26, 2022Apr 25, 2022 05:18 IST
Officials said that the companies bidding for the second round will only have to bring in the...
Mon, Apr 25, 2022Apr 25, 2022 04:01 IST
However, the Centre is of the view that whenever a new airport is built or an existing one...
Tue, Apr 26, 2022Apr 24, 2022 12:36 IST
Ola Electric has said it is recalling more than 1,400 of its electric scooters in the wake of...
Tue, Apr 26, 2022Apr 22, 2022 11:50 IST
In the last few weeks, over a dozen electric scooters have caught fire including those manufactured...
Fri, Apr 22, 2022Apr 22, 2022 03:41 IST
“Several mishaps involving Electric Two Wheelers have come to light in (the) last two months. It...
Fri, Apr 22, 2022Apr 21, 2022 12:44 IST
Niti Aayog has released a draft battery swapping policy and has invited comments on it until June...
Thu, Apr 21, 2022Apr 21, 2022 06:14 IST
The eligibility criteria for the scheme includes an annual sales turnover of Rs 2 crore for drone...
Thu, Apr 21, 2022Apr 20, 2022 13:25 IST
Netflix has lost some 2,00,000 subscribers in the first quarter of this calendar year. What is the...
Tue, Apr 26, 2022Apr 20, 2022 04:39 IST
In a meeting held Tuesday, Mika Lintilä, Finland’s Minister for Economic Affairs, is learnt to...
Wed, Apr 20, 2022Apr 18, 2022 00:09 IST
While Sequoia Capital India did not name any startup individually, its comments come when at least...
Mon, Apr 18, 2022Apr 17, 2022 17:43 IST
This was the first instance of a voluntary recall by an electric vehicle manufacturer in...
Mon, Apr 18, 2022Apr 17, 2022 04:30 IST
The platform had listed the presence of hazardous objects in food, serving non-vegetarian food...
Sun, Apr 17, 2022Apr 14, 2022 13:23 IST
WhatsApp has been allowed to add 60 million users to its UPI-based payments service WhatsApp Pay....
Fri, Apr 15, 2022Apr 13, 2022 04:00 IST
The numbers for the last fiscal were discussed at a review meeting chaired by Finance Minister...
Wed, Apr 13, 2022Apr 12, 2022 03:35 IST
The Road Transport Ministry, it is learnt, has taken cognisance of the incident and is in the...
Tue, Apr 12, 2022Apr 12, 2022 01:35 IST
In a statement to The Indian Express, a Meesho spokesperson said, “About 150 full time employ-ees...
Tue, Apr 12, 2022Apr 11, 2022 03:43 IST
Unified Payment Interface recently crossed $1-trillion mark in transaction values for...
Mon, Apr 11, 2022Apr 10, 2022 10:29 IST
At the moment, a few banks such as ICICI Bank, Kotak Mahindra Bank, HDFC Bank and SBI, allow their...
Wed, Apr 13, 2022Apr 10, 2022 04:00 IST
Taking the lead in creating a centralised database to monitor progress in the PLI schemes across...
Sun, Apr 10, 2022Apr 08, 2022 04:11 IST
The startup has around 6,000 employees, with the downsizing round impacting close to 10 per cent of...
Fri, Apr 08, 2022Apr 07, 2022 15:36 IST
Koo has launched voluntary self-verification for users, allowing them to add their Aadhaar details...
Thu, Apr 07, 2022