Culture & Policy News Startups Ola Cabs CEO Hemant Bakshi quits within 3 months of joining Ola, the Indian ride-hailing upstart that rivals Uber in India, is seeing… Staff@The Tech PortalApril 30, 20242 minute read
Business Internet News Swiggy confidentially files for $1.25Bn IPO Swiggy, the second major player within India’s duopolised food delivery market, has… Staff@The Tech PortalApril 28, 20242 minute read
Business News Alphabet beats Q1’24 expectations, generates $80.54Bn in revenue Alphabet, the parent company of Google, has delivered impressive financial results for… Soumyadeep SarkarApril 28, 20242 minute read
Apps News WhatsApp says will exit India if forced to break messaging encryption Is WhatsApp looking at a possible exit from India? The ubiquitous messaging… Soumyadeep SarkarApril 26, 20242 minute read
Apps Global News US Prez Biden signs new bill that would ban TikTok if Bytedance doesn’t sell it in a year [Update]: Joe Biden, US President, has signed the bill, making it a… Soumyadeep SarkarApril 25, 20243 minute read
Business Electric News Tesla Q1’24 profits less than half of Q1’23, company to fast-track affordable EV roll-out Tesla, the Elon Musk headed EV maker, reported a notable 9% drop… Soumyadeep SarkarApril 24, 20243 minute read
China Gadgetry News Huawei unveils Pura 70 series smartphones, reportedly running on its made-in-China ‘Kirin’ chip Huawei is once again validating its resurgence in the global smartphone arena,… Soumyadeep SarkarApril 18, 20242 minute read
Culture & Policy Internet News Google lays off employees, restructures several teams After a brief pause, the dreaded layoffs cycle that saw 1000s losing… Soumyadeep SarkarApril 18, 20243 minute read
Culture & Policy Electric News Tesla lays off 10% workforce, key execs leave, several departments considerably reduced Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced a fresh wave of layoffs at the… Global Staff @ The Tech PortalApril 16, 20242 minute read
Gadgetry News Apple to introduce new M4-chip for Mac lineup with AI capabilities Apple is now gearing up for a major refresh of its Mac… Soumyadeep SarkarApril 15, 20243 minute read
Apple News Security Apple warns users in 92 countries including India, of targeted spyware attack to gain unathorized iPhone access Apple has issued a sweeping alert to iPhone users in India and… Soumyadeep SarkarApril 11, 20242 minute read
A.I. Global News Google introduces new Arm-based AI chip The annual Google Cloud Next conference kicked off this year with a… Soumyadeep SarkarApril 9, 20243 minute read
A.I. Culture & Policy Internet News Security Microsoft warns of AI threat to elections, hints at China interference The democratic process worldwide is facing a new threat: the use of… Soumyadeep SarkarApril 8, 20243 minute read
News Startups Zepto surpasses $1Bn in annual sales: Goldman Sachs Quick commerce, a segment that saw meteoric rise during and post COVID,… Soumyadeep SarkarApril 4, 20242 minute read
News Security Indian government’s cloud infra leaked citizen data for several years due to misconfiguration: Report A major data security lapse, which has now been fixed, within India’s… Soumyadeep SarkarApril 3, 20242 minute read
A.I. News OpenAI simplifies ChatGPT usage, enabling users to access without creating accounts OpenAI – which kickstarted the current AI wave with the now-hosuehold ChatGPT,… Soumyadeep SarkarApril 3, 20242 minute read
A.I. Culture & Policy News OpenAI cuts Sam Altman’s control over VC arm, Ian Hathaway appointed to lead According to recent disclosures filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC),… Soumyadeep SarkarApril 1, 20242 minute read
News Startups Byju’s Raveendran offers renounced shares amid latest attempts to save firm Byju’s founder Byju Raveendran seems to be making a final dash at… Soumyadeep SarkarMarch 30, 20242 minute read
A.I. News Amazon pumps another $2.75Bn in AI startup Anthropic, bringing its total investment to $4Bn Amazon is bumping up its AI warchest for the ongoing tech wars… Soumyadeep SarkarMarch 28, 20242 minute read
Global Internet News Apple to hold this year’s WWDC from June 10-14 With another year comes yet another annual dev-conference by Apple. The company’s… Soumyadeep SarkarMarch 27, 20242 minute read
Culture & Policy Global News EU launches first investigations under Digital Markets Act against Apple, Alphabet, and Meta Th EU, which launched Digital Markets Act — one of the most… Soumyadeep SarkarMarch 26, 20243 minute read
