Truecaller faces mounting pressure as growth slows in India, its largest market, while telcos, Apple, and Google roll out caller ID and spam-blocking features (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: Truecaller faces mounting pressure as growth slows in India, its largest market, while telcos, Apple, and Google roll out caller ID and spam-blocking features — Truecaller is one of the world's most widely used caller identification platforms, with more than 500 million users.

WhatsApp partners with PayU to roll out prepaid mobile recharges in India; it remains a marginal payments player in India despite launching payments in 2020 (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
India's central bank cancels Paytm Payments Bank's banking license, after imposing business curbs over non-compliance with rules in January 2024 (Gopika Gopakumar/Reuters)
Sources: India is piloting 10 schemes to test whether its CBDC, the e-rupee, can deliver welfare payments more efficiently, as it looks to boost e-rupee usage (Reuters)
Source: Meta has a system in India to 'automatically restrict content, at scale' to meet local law, massively expanding the country's censorship powers (Aroon Deep/The Hindu)
India produces 1.5M+ computer science graduates annually, but scale is no longer an advantage with the rise of AI coding; Infosys revamps hiring to focus on AI (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)

Source: Techmeme | 2026-04-27

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