Locanto is making a name for itself in the fiercely competitive online classifieds market with a novel strategy that is grabbing attention. Through the use of modern technologies like artificial ...

Once popular as free classifieds to buy and sell goods, find jobs or rentals, platforms like Locanto have morphed into digital backstreets for organised prostitution, sextortion and financial frauds.

Locanto’s prostitution listings present a legal dilemma for the central government as its violations of Indian law are at a state level. The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A man holding his phone. (PHOTO: Getty Images) (RapidEye via Getty Images) SINGAPORE — Posing online as a woman whose sister had ...