Yesterday, the startup ecosystem in India was abuzz with reports of US-based retail chain behemoth WalMart Stores looking to step foot in the...
WalMart is reportedly looking to invest upto $1 billion into Flipkart
Setting up a multi-planetary civilization is the only way to avoid extinction : Elon Musk
SpaceX is producing 300 Merlin engines a year, the ones that power its Falcon rockets
Watch Elon Musk talk about making humans an interplanetary species, right here
Xiaomi launches its Mi 5s lineup with a dual-camera setup and under-glass fingerprint sensor
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WalMart is reportedly looking to invest upto $1 billion into Flipkart
Yesterday, the startup ecosystem in India was abuzz with reports of US-based retail chain behemoth WalMart Stores looking to step foot in the...
Self driving car startup nuTonomy in talks with potential investors to raise funds
nuTonomy, the three-year old Singapore-based startup, has been attracting eyeballs ever since it unveiled the first-ever public trial of autonomous...
BlackBerry accidentally reveals the specifications of its next rumored Android phone, DTEK60
After failing to regain marketshare with its hefty-priced Blackberry OS smartphones, the company took its first stab at developing an Android phone...
WhatsApp beta users can now invite others to join their conversation using public group links
While we were still debating the availability of native GIF support in Whatsapp, the company has dropped yet another beta with a couple of new...
Google’s Play Music store is now finally available for users in India
Music enthusiasts, the moment you’ve all been waiting for is finally here!! After multiple gut-wrenching rumors and a five-year long wait...
ThisWay Global bags $1.6 Mn in seed round to further enhance its machine learning platform
A machine-learning platform for the recruitment industry is just what’s needed to tackle the masses of people hitting the job market everyday...
Google introduces neural machine learning to improve translation, approach human-level accuracy
Though Google Translate is one of the most powerful language translation tools, the company still thinks there’s room for major improvement...
Samsung Galaxy On8 launched in India, sale starts from October 2
As reported earlier, Samsung has finally launched its latest smartphone — Galaxy On8 in the Indian market. This is the third device in the...
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WalMart is reportedly looking to invest upto $1 billion into Flipkart
Yesterday, the startup ecosystem in India was abuzz with reports of US-based retail chain behemoth WalMart Stores looking to step foot in the...
BlackBerry accidentally reveals the specifications of its next rumored Android phone, DTEK60
After failing to regain marketshare with its hefty-priced Blackberry OS smartphones, the company took its first stab at developing an Android phone...
WhatsApp beta users can now invite others to join their conversation using public group links
While we were still debating the availability of native GIF support in Whatsapp, the company has dropped yet another beta with a couple of new...
BlackBerry accidentally reveals the specifications of its next rumored Android phone, DTEK60
After failing to regain marketshare with its hefty-priced Blackberry OS smartphones, the company took its first stab at developing an Android phone...
Google introduces neural machine learning to improve translation, approach human-level accuracy
Though Google Translate is one of the most powerful language translation tools, the company still thinks there’s room for major improvement...
Samsung Galaxy On8 launched in India, sale starts from October 2
As reported earlier, Samsung has finally launched its latest smartphone — Galaxy On8 in the Indian market. This is the third device in the...
Setting up a multi-planetary civilization is the only way to avoid extinction : Elon Musk
As promised, we are here with an in-depth analysis of SpaceX CEO Elon Musk’s plans for colonizing Mars and converting humans into a...
SpaceX is producing 300 Merlin engines a year, the ones that power its Falcon rockets
Elon Musk, the visionary futurist who went into the greatest of details regarding his plans on making humans, an ‘interplanetary...
Facebook is launching its “At Work” service next month
We love Facebook. And if the numbers the social networking platform releases periodically are anything to go by, so do a lot of other humans. The...
Twitter will now assist US citizens to register to vote, will also answer questions about the elections via DMs
Joining the likes of Google, Square, Facebook and many others in trying to enhance the US elections experience, Twitter will now allow citizens to...
Udacity teams up with Google to add VR training to its curriculum
Just a few months ago, Udacity added Christian Plagemann (who co-founded the Google VR team and was a lead developer of Google Cardboard) to its...
OnePlus is plussing up with O2 in the UK to finally sell its phones via offline distribution
OnePlus began in 2013 as a direct-to-consumer online smartphone brand, flying its flag of “flagship killer”. This continued for its...
Google Station launched in India, Free Wi-Fi hotspots for emerging markets
In a major step forward towards its goal of getting the next 1 billion humans online, Google has launched the Google Station program. The initiative...
Watch Elon Musk talk about making humans an interplanetary species, right here
Elon Musk. Billionaire, entrepreneur and futurist. Undoubtedly one of the most forward looking and the most talked about businessmen of our times...
Xiaomi launches its Mi 5s lineup with a dual-camera setup and under-glass fingerprint sensor
Xiaomi has sort-of conquered the budget smartphone market. And adding on to that, the Mi 5 smartphone was well-received by users all over the...
startups
National Summit for SME’s and startups is a one day event that is being organized with an aim to bring SME’s and startups on one platform to...
Canvs.in, a community of designers and artists in India, has today announced that it has received an investment of undisclosed amount from Pratik Seal, former...
SolarCity Corp., soon-to-be Tesla-owned solar panel company, which had already been facing trouble with its acquisition is now staring another lawsuit square...
Webit.India invites some of the brightest digital innovators to address challenges faced by the complex digital world
The challenges of the new complex digital world are driving the business and societal transformation in fast pace. Webit.India, under the patronage...
Paytm acqui-hires e-learning marketplace Edukart for an undisclosed amount
Edukart, an edu-tech startup that had previously been backed by cricketer Yuvraj Singh and Paytm CEO Vijay Shekhar Sharma has failed to raise fresh...
Post dual co-founder exit, Nearbuy(formerly Groupon) lays-off about 10 percent of its workforce
Sequoia Capital-backed Nearbuy, formerly known as Groupon India, is currently going through a series of tough bouts. Due to rough business...
Indonesian ride-hailing giant GO-JEK acquires Bengaluru-based online healthcare marketplace Pianta
GO-JEK, the Indonesian ride-hailing giant, after (probably!?) reaching a peak in motorbike taxi aggregation is now turning towards healthcare space...
To take on Amazon in India, Walmart is looking for an equity partnership with Flipkart: Report
Continuing to be what is already a lucrative market for global companies, the battle for the e-commerce market in India is getting intense day by...
Fashion re-sale marketplace Refash secures $294K in seed from Tri5 Ventures and others
Singapore-based fashion re-sale marketplace Refash, which operates as a hybrid retail platform for women looking to trade used clothing, accessories...
Retail rediscovered online and made easy with Ubamarket
Ever wished that everything in the retail store was well organized and could be found easily? Well, the revolutionary new shopping application...
Zomato acquires logistics-tech startup Sparse Labs, to provide restaurants and users with real-time tracking info
We’ve all gone through that phase of helplessness where we’re extremely hungry and order food online(maybe Zomato!?) but do not know...
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WhatsApp beta users can now invite others to join their conversation using public group links
While we were still debating the availability of native GIF support in Whatsapp, the company has dropped yet another beta with a couple of new...
Google’s Play Music store is now finally available for users in India
Music enthusiasts, the moment you’ve all been waiting for is finally here!! After multiple gut-wrenching rumors and a five-year long wait...
German regulator orders Facebook to stop collecting data on WhatsApp users
Last month, Facebook announced that it would be collecting some user data from WhatsApp in order to give people a better experience upon its social...
Google introduces new lightweight ‘YouTube Go’ app for smooth video streaming at sluggish Indian internet speeds
In a bid to connect and reach the next billion consumers, Google today on its 18th anniversary took the stage at the ‘Google for India’...
Retail rediscovered online and made easy with Ubamarket
Ever wished that everything in the retail store was well organized and could be found easily? Well, the revolutionary new shopping application...
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...
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...
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...
gadgets
We’re exactly a week away from the unveiling of Google’s hardware innovations, but have already got a peek at the press renders of the upcoming...
Apple has just recently debuted its greatest software release, the iOS 10, but researchers have already discovered a major security flaw in its iTunes backup...
Hospitality management firm Hostmaker closes $1 mn funding round to expand into other European capitals
Hostmaker, a hospitality management firm that claims to support nearly 1000 Airbnb hosts across the UK, France, Spain and Italy, has upped the ante...
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...
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Windows 10 is now installed on 400 million devices
Microsoft has issued yet another update about the device count of its Windows 10 platform. And it has yet again grown. The OS in now installed...
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...
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...
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Fuzz testing, one of the oldest methods of finding vulnerabilities and bugs in a software, is finally getting a dose of innovation thanks to...
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 will start rolling out on November 1
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...
this is our future
It took us thousands of years to arrive at this point of civilization on our planet. However, if Elon Musk is to be believed, our next stop, Mars, may be home to a budding human settlement in as little as (or as long as) 40 to 100 years.
Elon Musk may name the first Spaceship to Mars after the Heart Of Gold
A couple of weeks ago, we did an article on the Mars Colonial Transporter and described Elon Musk’s hunt for suitable names. It had been...
The first humans to Mars must be prepared to die: Elon Musk
Being the explorer can have quite some advantages. However, it comes with its fair share of risks as well. Elon Musk outlined some of them as he...
Reusable rockets anyone? SpaceX’s Mars rocket will be reused 1000 times!
Today at the 67th International Astronautical Conference, Elon Musk talked about something which has been close to his heart for a long time...
Another HUGE milestone for ISRO, launches 8 satellites into 2 different orbits
The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has added yet another feather to its highly decorated cap. The organization today, managed...
Forget about hailing cabs, Uber may just let you fly to work
Cab aggregators have been consistently improving our travel experience. From taking the bus to work, we graduated to cabs and then to luxury cars...
SpaceX successfully test-fires ‘Raptor’ interplanetary transport engine that’ll carry humans to Mars
Elon Musk, the legendary founder and CEO of SpaceX is hell-bent of fulfilling his ambition of reaching Mars and beyond. And even after the tragic and...
World’s largest radio telescope FAST, goes operational in China
Humanity’s hunt for life amongst the stars has received another boost as the World’s largest radio telescope has just gone operational...
ISRO releases an year worth of data from the Mars Orbiter Mission
Mars, the red planet, the god of war according to Greek and Roman mythologies. The fourth major body in the solar system has alway aroused the...