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Infosys icons reject IT obituary, IT Minister meets RMG industry, Big Tech’s India hiring despite Trump tariff woes, and UPI’s record run | MC Tech3

In today’s Tech3 from Moneycontrol, we bring you the top stories in startups and tech. Infosys legends Nandan Nilekani, Narayana Murthy, and Salil Parekh brush off AI fears, calling it an opportunity. The government meets gaming firms as Games24x7 begins layoffs after the real-money gaming ban. Big Tech continues to hire aggressively in India despite tariff tensions, and UPI crosses the 20 billion monthly transactions milestone.

Nvidia to have final say on strong earnings season for Big Tech

Nvidia, the world’s most valuable chipmaker reports Wednesday after market close - the last of the Big Tech cohort to do so. Results from Microsoft, Meta Platforms and others showed that outlooks remain mostly intact despite uncertainty over Trump’s tariffs.

MC Exclusive: PM Modi meets Adobe, YouTube, Instagram and India Inc chiefs at WAVES; discusses AI, copyright

A key concern raised during the meeting was the threat of copyright infringement posed by AI tools — an issue that has roiled global creative and tech circles.

YouTube ropes in Gunjan Soni to lead its India operations

With nearly half a billion users, India is YouTube's largest market and a crucial region for its future growth strategy, especially with its AI efforts.

US stocks are back to where they were before DeepSeek

The S&P 500 wiped out its weekly losses and the Nasdaq 100 rose almost 1.5% as Apple Inc. gave a reassuring forecast

How Big Tech, Big Agri are combining to create new oligopolies

Big multinational agribusinesses such as Bayer, John Deere, BASF and Syngenta, which are dominant in seeds, inputs, agrochemicals and farm equipment, are collaborating with tech giants like Google, Amazon and Microsoft to set up digital platforms in the agriculture space

Trump blasts EU regulators for targeting Apple, Google, Meta

The EU has established a reputation globally for its aggressive regulation of major technology companies

Want Big Tech to succeed but not at the cost of Indian entrepreneurs: Rajeev Chandrashekhar

Former IT minister Rajeev Chandrashekhar says that while Big Tech brings a lot to the table, these companies must also comply with established rules and regulations.

 Are digital platforms failing traditional media?

As traditional media struggles for fair compensation, India is gearing up to tackle the growing imbalance in digital ad revenue-sharing between news publishers and tech giants like Google and Meta.

Competition in Digital Markets: UK’s DMCC may reflect the best or the worst of the two worlds

In a growing perception around the need to have a separate digital competition law, the DMCC is either set to be the legend in the field of rulemaking, or reflect the delusion in the UK government public policy

Apple and Google's easy ride is coming to an end

EU court rulings against Apple and Google mark a new era for of swifter regulation for tech giants

Nvidia value takes $900 bn hit even as AI spending ramps up

Microsoft Corp., Amazon.com Inc., Alphabet Inc. and Meta Platforms Inc. — together accounting for more than 40% of Nvidia’s revenue — have all said they will keep investing billions into AI infrastructure

MeitY worried about the Big Tech 'making people vulnerable', flags spike in data usage

The government identified Google, Uber, Alibaba, Airbnb, Facebook and Amazon among the Big Tech players driving increased data consumption

Big tech shares lose lustre as US market rocked by violent rotation

Small-cap stocks surge in expectation they will benefit disproportionately from a Fed interest rate cut

IT Ministry reviews Digital Competition Bill inputs amid business rule allocation deliberations

The Digital Competition Bill brings in additional obligations for companies if they meet certain specific thresholds such as global turnover, number of business users and so on

Forget radical honesty — Big Tech revisits its corporate culture

As the sector ages, markers of traditional hierarchy are creeping in

US tech giants eager to engage with new NDA government on pending tech regulations

Several regulations such as the Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, Digital India Bill, and National Data Governance Framework, will have immense ramifications for Big Tech companies

IAMAI warns that draft digital competition bill can dry up investments in startups

The industry body also said that the criteria for designating enterprises as Systematically Significant Digital Enterprises (SSDEs) can potentially include the entirety of the Indian digital sector

News Media vs Big Tech: Another battlefront opens up

California’s proposed act to get Big Tech to pay news publishers raises familiar arguments, but eventually if human-generated news gets funding it will be for the greater good 

OpenAI tapping YouTube? Big Tech's trapped in a glass house of its own making

Having exploited user data for years, the tables are turning as Big Tech firms grab it from each other

Digital competition law will provide more teeth to CCI to regulate digital markets, legal experts say

However, they feel that two co-existing anti-trust laws may lead to over-regulation and add to the compliance burden of firms, the burden of which ultimately the consumer may have to bear.

Centre will have power to supersede CCI, exempt large firms from draft competition bill

Experts said that more clarity is required when it comes to providing exemptions to firms from the provisions of the draft Digital Competition Bill

No mixing of personal data, anti steering and more: Decoding obligations for Big Tech in Digital Competition Bill

The Digital Competition Bill proposes rules for Big Tech companies (SSDEs) to curb anti-competitive practices based on global turnover and user base.

MCA releases draft Digital Competition Bill for public consultation

The draft bill is a part of the report that Committee on Digital Competition Law (CDCL) submitted to the Ministry of Corporate Affairs on February 27.