As Indians rail against the social media dominance of US-based Twitter, WhatsApp and Facebook that often appears to go against the country's interests, India and its entrepreneurs have to acknowledge the failure to produce a single world-class social media app that is visible on the world map

Another data privacy concern, another "strongly-worded" letter to Facebook-owned WhatsApp

Elated at Indians, including top entrepreneurs and celebrities, rushing to join his encrypted messaging app Signal, Brian Acton, who co-founded WhatsApp with Jan Koum before selling it to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg for $19 billion, aims to add 100-200 million users in India over the next two years

Apple is launching its first exclusive branded online store in India on September 23