Top 10 stories of the week: July 31st to 6th August 2017 - 10 new articles

[MediaNama: Telecom and Media News and Analysis]( [Advertise on MediaNama]( Over 100 charts and a comprehensive analysis of Digital Payments in India, covering credit cards, debit cards, wallets, IMPS, NEFT, with data on Paytm and Mobikwik, and a special analysis on the impact of demonetization. [Download MediaNama's report on Digital Payments in India here](. [][Top 10 stories of the week: July 31st to 6th August 2017]( In no particular order, here are MediaNama’s top 10 stories of the week ended 6th August 2017 MediaNama would like to thank its sponsors: E2E for their support. Paytm launching a messaging service: On Paytm vs Whatsapp Mobile payment company Paytm, backed by Chinese payments and ecommerce major... ... [Read the rest of the post]( » [Add to FaceBook]( on Google+]( to LinkedIn]( This]( [][Game of Thrones episode leaked from Star India: report]( Star India, which owns the rights to telecast and stream many HBO titles, was the source of a leak of a Game of Thrones episode that is due to air on Monday, reports The Verge. The leaked version bears watermarks indicating that it was a screener meant for internal viewing, perhaps for censoring... ... [Read the rest of the post]( » [Add to FaceBook]( on Google+]( to LinkedIn]( This]( [][Skype enables P2P payments from PayPal]( Microsoft is the latest company to partner with PayPal and will enable P2P money transfers on Skype’s mobile app. The feature will be enabled in 22 countries – United States, United Kingdom, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy,... ... [Read the rest of the post]( » [Add to FaceBook]( on Google+]( to LinkedIn]( This]( [][DEN Networks had 193K broadband subs in Q1FY17; Data usage up 66%]( Multi System Operator DEN Networks had 193,000 broadband subscribers for the quarter ended June  2017 (Q1 FY18), which is up from 115,000 subscribers in the same quarter last year. During the quarter, the operator added close to 16,000 new broadband subscribers, lower than the 18,000 subscribers... [Read the rest of the post]( » [Add to FaceBook]( on Google+]( to LinkedIn]( This]( [][PayPal and Mastercard extend their partnership to Asia Pacific region]( Last year, PayPal and Mastercard decided to end their feud. PayPal had been urging customers in the US to use Automated Clearing House (ACH), a network which processes net banking, to load money into their wallets instead of cards. Card networks retaliated and threatened to cut-off access to... [Read the rest of the post]( » [Add to FaceBook]( on Google+]( to LinkedIn]( This]( [][Echo and Alexa may be coming soon to India: Amazon CFO]( Amazon’s revenue tapered down significantly in Q2 2017 (ended this July) because of a price cut in the company’s AWS webhosting and cloud computing wing. A slowdown in the company’s revenue from outside the US also contributed to the reduced revenue. Revenue and operating... [Read the rest of the post]( » [Add to FaceBook]( on Google+]( to LinkedIn]( This]( [][UPI transactions grow 12% in July 2017; Rs 3411 cr transacted]( The Unified Payment Interface (UPI) saw a 12% growth in the total transaction volumes taking place between June and July 2017, according to data published by the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI). The NPCI is a company owned by Indian banks, and owns and operates payments systems... [Read the rest of the post]( » [Add to FaceBook]( on Google+]( to LinkedIn]( This]( [][Kerala state to install 2,000 WiFi hotspots with free 300MB usage]( Adding to an increasing number of state sponsored WiFi projects, the Kerala government too unveiled a public WiFi project today. The state plans to set up Wi-Fi hotspots in 2,000 public places like government offices, bus stops, parks, tourist destinations, courts and public ‘seva... ... [Read the rest of the post]( » [Add to FaceBook]( on Google+]( to LinkedIn]( This]( [][Netflix announces two more original series from India]( Netflix announced two new original series from India: Selection Day, based on the book by author Aravind Adiga; and Again, a supernatural female-led detective series set in Delhi and written by Marisha Mukerjee. Selection Day is described by Netflix as a “compelling story of cricket and... ... [Read the rest of the post]( » [Add to FaceBook]( on Google+]( to LinkedIn]( This]( [][Ola employee arrested for accessing Aadhaar KYC data; No case against KUA?]( Abhinav Srivastav, the Ola employee and co-founder of Qarth Technologies, was arrested by the Bangalore City Police on the 1st of August 2017. The preliminary investigation of the Bangalore Police has revealed that Srivastava accessed and made available UIDAI data through the “Aadhaar... [Read the rest of the post]( » [Add to FaceBook]( on Google+]( to LinkedIn]( This]( Contact Nikhil Pahwa Publisher & Editor nikhil@medianama.com [About]( | [Advertise]( (c) 2008-2016 MixedBag Media Pvt Ltd Contacts: nikhil AT medianama DOT com | newsletter AT medianama DOT com Mixed Bag Media Pvt Ltd. Address: 20 A Rajpur Road, Civil Lines, Delhi-110054 --------------------------------------------------------------- [Click here to safely unsubscribe]( from "MediaNama: Digital Media in India." 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