Betting big on its burgeoning presence in the country, Amazon India has reportedly made a bid for obtaining the digital rights to broadcast the...
With focus on promoting ‘Prime’ in India, Amazon India joins the race for IPL broadcasting rights
Snapchat rebrands to Snap Inc., unveils its first $130 hardware product ‘Spectacles’
Apple may be working to launch its own Echo competitor
Apple and Flipkart team up to bring iPhone 7 and other devices to India
Facebook reveals miscalculation in video-view count, showed advertisers inflated metrics for two whole years
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With focus on promoting ‘Prime’ in India, Amazon India joins the race for IPL broadcasting rights
Betting big on its burgeoning presence in the country, Amazon India has reportedly made a bid for obtaining the digital rights to broadcast the...
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare Multiplayer Beta start times confirmed for PS4 and Xbox One
After a rather rocky start (if this is the first time you’re hearing of the massive hate it has received, i’ll simply assume that you...
We will continue to sell Lumia devices: Microsoft India Chairman
Microsoft hasn’t been doing too well with regards to its smartphones division. The company’s Nokia acquisition failed to breath fresh...
Facebook apologizes for mistakenly overestimating video views
Facebook had reported earlier that the company’s key metric of video viewer-ship significantly amplified users’ viewing times on its...
Flipkart teases the Samsung Galaxy On8 for its Big Billion Day sale event
Lately, Samsung has been pressing ahead in the mid-range device segment. The company has coming up with all sorts of exciting, mid-range smartphones...
Cybersecurity accelerator: an effort by the UK government, WYRA and GCHQ
In a bid to protect the country from cyber attacks, the UK government will now partner with tech startups to develop new technologies aimed at...
GE Healthcare sets up ‘five.eight’ accelerator to invest around $50 Mn in global health startups
Healthcare startups have been receiving a lot of investor interest of lately. And now, a global giant – General Electric, has also registered...
Yahoo faces numerous class-action lawsuits for negligence over massive security breach
Yahoo, the soon-to-be Verizon owned company, is now facing class-action lawsuits from people who believe that their accounts have been hacked in the...
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With focus on promoting ‘Prime’ in India, Amazon India joins the race for IPL broadcasting rights
Betting big on its burgeoning presence in the country, Amazon India has reportedly made a bid for obtaining the digital rights to broadcast the...
We will continue to sell Lumia devices: Microsoft India Chairman
Microsoft hasn’t been doing too well with regards to its smartphones division. The company’s Nokia acquisition failed to breath fresh...
Facebook apologizes for mistakenly overestimating video views
Facebook had reported earlier that the company’s key metric of video viewer-ship significantly amplified users’ viewing times on its...
With focus on promoting ‘Prime’ in India, Amazon India joins the race for IPL broadcasting rights
Betting big on its burgeoning presence in the country, Amazon India has reportedly made a bid for obtaining the digital rights to broadcast the...
We will continue to sell Lumia devices: Microsoft India Chairman
Microsoft hasn’t been doing too well with regards to its smartphones division. The company’s Nokia acquisition failed to breath fresh...
Flipkart teases the Samsung Galaxy On8 for its Big Billion Day sale event
Lately, Samsung has been pressing ahead in the mid-range device segment. The company has coming up with all sorts of exciting, mid-range smartphones...
Yahoo faces numerous class-action lawsuits for negligence over massive security breach
Yahoo, the soon-to-be Verizon owned company, is now facing class-action lawsuits from people who believe that their accounts have been hacked in the...
Google’s self-driving car sustains major damage during an accident in Mountain View
Google, as we’re all aware, has been continuously testing and refining its self-driving autonomous technology for the past couple years. And it...
Snapchat rebrands to Snap Inc., unveils its first $130 hardware product ‘Spectacles’
Snapchat is today not only expanding its scope beyond the ephemeral video messaging app — it is widely known for, but also planning a brand...
Google to reportedly unveil a smaller, $129 ‘own-brand’ Wi-Fi router at Pixel event on Oct. 4
While Google is gearing up to introduce its new rebranded Pixel smartphones at the launch event on October 4th, we’re now hearing chatter of...
iOS 10.0.2 is here with fixes for headphone, Photos and app extension bugs
Just over a week ago, Apple officially launched iOS 10 as a public release. Today, the company is bringing in the first official update to its latest...
Apple may be working to launch its own Echo competitor
Apple’s iOS 10 is awesome in a lot of ways. One of its future ready features that is likely to have a huge impact in the technologies of...
Google’s algorithms are now piloting its Internet beaming balloons
Artificial Intelligence can do a lot of things. It still struggles with some of them and has a lot to learn (read, car driving!) however, it has also...
Twitter may be in talks with Google and Salesforce for a potential sale
Twitter has been dithering about a potential sale since the past few months. Rumors of the sale have quickened though and the social network...
Samsung completes exchange of over 500k recalled Note 7s in the U.S, hits another roadblock in South Korea
Samsung has recently been having sleepless nights due to its exploding battery fiasco, but there’s still a glimmer of hope for the Korean...
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In a bid to protect the country from cyber attacks, the UK government will now partner with tech startups to develop new technologies aimed at cybersecurity.
Healthcare startups have been receiving a lot of investor interest of lately. And now, a global giant – General Electric, has also registered its...
RazorPay, an online payment gateway solution provider, has today announced that it has started accepting UPI payments on its platform. With this introduction...
Uber has just gotten itself another investor, the KWAP
The Kumpulan Wang Persaraan (Diperbadankan), Malaysia’s public-sector pension fund has made an investment in Uber. Coming out of the blue, the...
ParentLane secures additional seed funding from Rohit MA’s Capier Investments
After raising seed funding round a few months ago, ParentLane, a tech startup focused on child development, has now raised a new round of funding...
Co-working space provider CoLife gets seeded with $1 Mn, to expand its footprint within the country
CoLife, a startup which is offering shared living as well as co-working space, has raised $1 million in its seed funding round. While the company has...
Tech Exits in H1 2016: Runner up, UK
According to a recent report cited on Tech City News, the UK has ranked second in the number of global tech exits in the first half of 2016. The...
Travel social network WAYN crosses over to Lastminute.com Group
Patience bears sweet fruit, but so does selling your brand in a bid to expand. For travel social network WAYN, fourteen years of being a startup is...
A Singapore-based Startup IdeaWaveLabs backs First Moms Club
Singapore-based Venture Builder and Start-up Studio, IdeaWaveLabs Pte. Ltd. has invested in three firms in India. The recent acquisition of a...
nuTonomy partners with Uber rival Grab to test its autonomous cab service in Singapore
Let’s recall the recent happenings in the ride-hailing service space: Uber after exiting China planned to boost resources for Southeast Asia...
UOB participates in $72mn Series C round of Israeli crowdfunding platform OurCrowd
Singapore’s United Overseas Bank (UOB) after pumping $10 million in OurCrowd earlier this year, participated in its Series C round of funding...
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Uber has just gotten itself another investor, the KWAP
The Kumpulan Wang Persaraan (Diperbadankan), Malaysia’s public-sector pension fund has made an investment in Uber. Coming out of the blue, the...
Facebook brings polls to group chats, adds AI driven payment suggestions
Facebook has provided its messenger application with another shot of Artificial Intelligence. The company is adding two brand new features for its...
You can now live stream Android games (and apps!) to Facebook from your PC
Live streaming is literally taking the world by storm. It is becoming increasingly common for people to share all kinds of stuff in real time...
Google Play Store starts rolling out to Chrome OS users on the stable channel
Google, at the I/O Developer Conference in May, had announced that the Android Play Store, alongwith its million of apps and games will soon be...
Google says no to a previously announced Allo privacy feature
Google’s Allo app was one of the highlights of its I/O conference, earlier this year. The company projected the app as a significant boost to...
Powered by Paytm, India’s highway tolls will now go cashless
Continuing its penetration of digital payments deeper into our daily usage, Paytm has added another tier to its assortment of digital services. The...
Google’s really smart messaging app ‘Allo’ is now live on both Android and iOS
Google, at the I/O Developer Conference in May, announced its next generation messaging and video calling mobile apps, namely Allo and Duo. The...
Google launches Android Studio 2.2, comes with APK Analyzer and more
Google’s Integrated Development Environments (IDE) are something that keep many developers eagerly awaiting each new release. Known as one of...
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Facebook had reported earlier that the company’s key metric of video viewer-ship significantly amplified users’ viewing times on its platform. Apparently...
Last year, Google announced the Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) program in an attempt to make mobile browsing faster and more efficient. The project was a great success...
Apple and Flipkart team up to bring iPhone 7 and other devices to India
In a big win for Flipkart, it has entered into a partnership with Apple to introduce India to the wonders of the iPhone 7. The partnership is also...
Facebook brings polls to group chats, adds AI driven payment suggestions
Facebook has provided its messenger application with another shot of Artificial Intelligence. The company is adding two brand new features for its...
Elon Musk teases SolarCity solar roof, Powerwall and charger, set to be revealed on October 28
In what seems be an attempt to display a natural synergy between related companies, Elon Musk today said that he’s planning an October 28...
Sony finally unveils the pricing and availability of Xperia XZ and X Compact in the US
A few weeks ago, Sony unveiled two new handsets at IFA. The camera-centric devices called the Xperia XZ and the X Compact seemed to impress quite a...
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Google’s Daydream VR development kit graduates out of beta, SDK 1.0 now available for download
Virtual Reality — the buzz word that is on everybody’s tongues nowadays. But, there’s one tech giant that is trying to bring the...
Google launches Android Studio 2.2, comes with APK Analyzer and more
Google’s Integrated Development Environments (IDE) are something that keep many developers eagerly awaiting each new release. Known as one of...
[UPDATE: experimental GIF support] WhatsApp beta update for Android brings Mentions support, video calling still in the works
UPDATE: A lot of our readers have been complaining that they’re unable to see the GIF feature on their WhatsApp application, even when...
Oracle unveils its chatbot development platform at the annual OpenWorld Conference
At the annual OpenWorld Conference in San Francisco, Oracle not only took an aim at Amazon with its second generation of cloud data servers, but...
ex-CEO Larry Ellison unveils Oracle’s second gen. cloud infrastructure, says Amazon’s lead is now over
As reported a couple days ago, software giant Oracle was prepping to unveil its exciting, new second generation cloud infrastructure in the coming...
Oracle set to take on Amazon AWS, with the release of its second gen. cloud infrastructure next week
Oracle, the software giant — now turning towards cloud — alongside its better than expected Q1 results, today announced that it will...
At Salesforce and Oracle’s expense, Microsoft secures a 6-year deal with HP CRM
In a significant win for Microsoft, it has managed to sign a 6 year deal with HP to run the Microsoft Dynamics customer relationship management...
Raspberry Pi passes 10 Million sales, finally offers an official starter kit
The Raspberry Pi Foundation has been driving the revolution in the field of micro-controllers and robotics through its variety of gadgets and kits...
the internet
Last year, Google announced the Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) program in an attempt to make mobile browsing faster and more efficient. The project...
Minecraft: Education Edition, the block of the popular crafting game aimed at classrooms will arrive in full force on November the 1st. We already...
Google updates Drive, smarter search bar, natural language processing and more
Google Drive’s search feature is getting some amazing upgrades today, making the service more Google-like. For starters, the service now comes...
Twitter finally allows you to do more with the 140-character limit
Almost a week ago, we reported that Twitter may start excluding photos, links, and user names from the 140 character limit starting from September...
Pretending to be a Pokemon Go guide, malicious app infects thousands
If you have been downloading Pokemon Go guides in your bid to be the best of them, well, you may unwittingly have invited some serious trouble your...
[UPDATED : Resolved] Gmail hit by severe service outage across US and Europe
SCROLL DOWN FOR REAL-TIME UPDATES In an event that disrupted the work flow and communications for millions, Gmail — Google’s extremely...
this is our future
SpaceX’s weeks of investigating the Falcon 9 explosion seems to have finally yielded some results. The company has recently made an update, where it said that the explosion appears to have been caused by a breach in the “cryogenic...
Google’s Daydream VR development kit graduates out of beta, SDK 1.0 now available for download
Virtual Reality — the buzz word that is on everybody’s tongues nowadays. But, there’s one tech giant that is trying to bring the...
nuTonomy partners with Uber rival Grab to test its autonomous cab service in Singapore
Let’s recall the recent happenings in the ride-hailing service space: Uber after exiting China planned to boost resources for Southeast Asia...
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative announces an ambitious, $3 Billion initiative to cure ALL diseases within this century
And the secret is out. After teasing us about an upcoming project the Chan-Zuckerberg initiative has been working on since the past couple of years...
Apple could soon acquire another auto company, a self-balancing motorcycle startup Lit Motors
First McLaren, and now it seems as if Apple is trying to get its hands on yet another automobile manufacturer. The New York Times is now reporting...
China confirms that it has lost control of the Tiangong-1 space station
If you are a space enthusiast, you might have already come across rumors of one of China’s space stations going rogue. While there...
Google acquires natural language startup API.ai to help developers build better conversational experiences
Google’s research arm has been working on some complex but powerful natural language and machine learning algorithms. It has recently...
Tesla to face lawsuit in China over deceased driver
And Tesla is in fresh trouble. Apparently, the car maker has run into a lawsuit following the death of a driver of one of its cars in an accident...
Mars is not the limit for SpaceX’s Mars Colonial Transporter, reveals Elon Musk
Entrepreneurs usually have a quirky side to them, which often makes them very unpredictable. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, arguably one of the most...