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Ola restructures Foodpanda business, focus shifts to enhancing in-house culinary brands
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Ola restructures Foodpanda business, focus shifts to enhancing in-house culinary brands
Struggles of sustaining in an already crowded food delivery business, coupled up with Ola’s own ambitious EV and international expansion plans...
Kaha picks up $6.2Mn in Series B for its end-to-end IoT platform for smart wearbles
Kaha, an IoT platform startup based out of India and Singapore, has announced closure of a $6.2Mn Series B round of funding. The round was led by ICT...
Indian Government questions Whatsapp over recent spyware attack
Acting on the recent spyware attack on Whatsapp, the Indian Government is now seeking details from the Facebook owned IM app on the same. The attack...
OnePlus 7 series phones are now live, here’s all you need to know
Ever since the ‘OnePlus’ brand came into existence just over 5 years back, it has time and again proven itself to be worthy of the tag...
Paytm partners with Citibank to launch ‘Paytm First’ credit card
Paytm has today announced its foray into the physical finance space, with the launch of its first credit card service. Branded ‘Paytm...
Brain imaging AI company icometrix raises $18 million in new funding
icometrix, the global expert in brain imaging Artificial Intelligence solutions, has raised $18 million through a partnership led by Forestay Capital...
After initial stutters, Uber’s share stable on IPO debut
Uber did not exactly have the kind of IPO opening it was expecting to get. Despite a rather conservative pricing of $45 per share, and an...
Uber to raise $8.1Bn from IPO, shares priced at $45 apiece
There are more details coming in with regards to arguably the most anticipated IPO for quite some time. Uber has now announced pricing for its...
Career guidance platform CollegeDekho picks up $8Mn in Series B
CollegeDekho.com, the online career guidance platform helping Indian students select the right higher studies institutes from India’s swarm of...
Microsoft launches a fully-managed blockchain service ahead of its annual Build dev con
As a part of a flurry of announcements that Microsoft has made under Build 2019, the company has announced the launch of a fully managed blockchain...
Youtube confirms it will make its ‘Originals’ available for free
Reaffirming previous talks of making the platform’s ‘Originals’ section available for free, Youtube’s Chief Business Officer...
Facebook is getting its biggest makeover in 5 years, groups in focus
Mark Zuckerberg today unveiled, perhaps the biggest redesign of the social network he founded over a decade back. Facebook, at its F8 Developer...
ESSENTIAL TECH
OnePlus 7 series phones are now live, here’s all you need to know
Ever since the ‘OnePlus’ brand came into existence just over 5 years back, it has time and again proven itself to be worthy of the tag...
Brain imaging AI company icometrix raises $18 million in new funding
icometrix, the global expert in brain imaging Artificial Intelligence solutions, has raised $18 million through a partnership led by Forestay Capital...
Microsoft launches a fully-managed blockchain service ahead of its annual Build dev con
As a part of a flurry of announcements that Microsoft has made under Build 2019, the company has announced the launch of a fully managed blockchain...
OnePlus 7 series phones are now live, here’s all you need to know
Ever since the ‘OnePlus’ brand came into existence just over 5 years back, it has time and again proven itself to be worthy of the tag...
Brain imaging AI company icometrix raises $18 million in new funding
icometrix, the global expert in brain imaging Artificial Intelligence solutions, has raised $18 million through a partnership led by Forestay Capital...
Microsoft launches a fully-managed blockchain service ahead of its annual Build dev con
As a part of a flurry of announcements that Microsoft has made under Build 2019, the company has announced the launch of a fully managed blockchain...
Youtube confirms it will make its ‘Originals’ available for free
Reaffirming previous talks of making the platform’s ‘Originals’ section available for free, Youtube’s Chief Business Officer...
Facebook is getting its biggest makeover in 5 years, groups in focus
Mark Zuckerberg today unveiled, perhaps the biggest redesign of the social network he founded over a decade back. Facebook, at its F8 Developer...
Nikkei confirms majority stake buyout in DealStreetAsia
The startup and tech media domain is seeing a major move today. Nikkei, the Japanese media behemoth that owns the likes of Financial Times among...
Google’s Thanos easter egg wipes off half of the web, and we’re loving it!
There’s no explanation required. Head over to Google right away, and search the word “thanos”. Once search results appear, look at...
Guvi raises ₹10 Mn from Gray Matters to train coders in vernacular languages
Guvi, an ed-tech startup that works towards helping coders acquire newer skills using content in their native language, has announced raising of an...
A more inclusive Internet experience for all Indians: Fostering IDN adoption & growth in India
Fostering IDN adoption & growth in India
Internet connectivity in India is in a time of significant growth and opportunity. According to a recent...
Twitter’s Q1 numbers zoom past street estimates, $787Mn in revenues but with a drop in MAUs
It has been a strong performance from Twitter on the Wall Street. The company has come up with its first quarter results for 2019 and they have...
Tesla is expecting to launch a robotaxi network by 2020
Tesla is aiming at developing a ‘robotaxi’ network by 2020, essentially on the base of how Uber and other cab aggregators work. This...
Manish Maheshwari joins Twitter as new India MD
Twitter’s long drawn search for an MD for its India business has finally ended. The company has zeroed in on Manish Maheshwari, digital media...
STARTUPS
Struggles of sustaining in an already crowded food delivery business, coupled up with Ola’s own ambitious EV and international expansion plans have...
Kaha, an IoT platform startup based out of India and Singapore, has announced closure of a $6.2Mn Series B round of funding. The round was led by ICT Fund, a...
Paytm has today announced its foray into the physical finance space, with the launch of its first credit card service. Branded ‘Paytm First’ credit...
Brain imaging AI company icometrix raises $18 million in new funding
icometrix, the global expert in brain imaging Artificial Intelligence solutions, has raised $18 million through a partnership led by Forestay Capital...
Career guidance platform CollegeDekho picks up $8Mn in Series B
CollegeDekho.com, the online career guidance platform helping Indian students select the right higher studies institutes from India’s swarm of...
Nikkei confirms majority stake buyout in DealStreetAsia
The startup and tech media domain is seeing a major move today. Nikkei, the Japanese media behemoth that owns the likes of Financial Times among...
Microsoft commits $500 Mn to supporting startups and local ecosystems
Microsoft is announcing a fresh initiative, worth $500Mn, to support startups and local ecosystems globally. This will most probably work with the...
Guvi raises ₹10 Mn from Gray Matters to train coders in vernacular languages
Guvi, an ed-tech startup that works towards helping coders acquire newer skills using content in their native language, has announced raising of an...
Uber is looking to raise $10Bn in its IPO, listing on NYSE by May’19 : Reuters
We have some more insider news on arguably the most anticipated tech IPO in history. According to an exclusive report published by Reuters today...
Oyo expands to Japan in partnership with Yahoo! Japan
Oyo is today announcing its expansion into Japan, in partnership with Yahoo! Japan Corporation. Oyo’s aggressive international expansion will...
Mswipe picks up $30Mn in fresh round to expand reach to over 1.5 Mn merchants
Mswipe, the point of sales fintech company in this sea of mobile-only fintechs, has raised a fresh $30 Million round from multiple returning...
APPS
Facebook is getting its biggest makeover in 5 years, groups in focus
Mark Zuckerberg today unveiled, perhaps the biggest redesign of the social network he founded over a decade back. Facebook, at its F8 Developer...
Whatsapp to comply with Reserve Bank of India’s data regulation guidelines
After much resistance to Indian central bank’s guidelines, Whatsapp is now reportedly looking to comply with RBI’s payments data...
Netflix tests a new $1 ‘weekly’, mobile-only plan in India
Netflix is continuing to experiment with the Indian market, as it looks to gain some traction in a market that is hugely dominated by local players...
Netflix pilots a new ₹250 (~$4), smartphone-only plan in India
Despite rolling out multiple original series — a few of them really successful ones as well — and signing up with multiple original...
Paytm is raising $2 billion at an $18 billion valuation : Report
In what will mark possibly the biggest fund-raise for 2019, Paytm is in talks to close a $2bn financing round at a valuation ranging between $16 bn...
Apple announces ‘Apple News+’ to serve content from over 300 magazines, costs $9.99 per month
Kicking off the event with updates to Apple News, Tim Cook announced the launch of ‘Apple News+. The new service will now offer Apple News...
Xiaomi launches its own payment service ‘Mi Pay’ for Mi users
Xiaomi, after building a size-able counter option to Samsung in the hardware space, is now heading to the software space. The company has announced...
[UPDATES:Resolved] Facebook and its family of platforms is currently down for most users
Update
Facebook has confirmed that the services are now restored. And what was the fault ? Well, apparently it was a server configuration change...
CONSUMER TECH
Ever since the ‘OnePlus’ brand came into existence just over 5 years back, it has time and again proven itself to be worthy of the tag line it initially went...
Netflix is continuing to experiment with the Indian market, as it looks to gain some traction in a market that is hugely dominated by local players and cheaper OTT...
Apple announces a massive 22% price cut on iPhone XR in India, now starts at ₹59,900
Looks like Apple is on top of getting things in order, in the world’s fastest growing smartphone market. The Cupertino giant, after announcing...
Apple drops iPhone prices in China
As a direct impact of of the 3 percent tax cut announced by the Chinese Government, Apple has swiftly moved in to cut prices on most its hardware...
Apple has canceled the launch of ‘AirPower’, its cross-device wireless charging mat
In a rare and embarrassing move for and from Apple, the Cupertino-based giant has simply canceled a hugely anticipated product — the...
Apple announces new iPad Air and iPad Mini, both get the A12 bionic
The iPad Mini and iPad Air finally receive a refresh, well after almost 3 years. Such was the sheer neglect that these highly successful devices have...
CODE
Microsoft launches a fully-managed blockchain service ahead of its annual Build dev con
As a part of a flurry of announcements that Microsoft has made under Build 2019, the company has announced the launch of a fully managed blockchain...
Guvi raises ₹10 Mn from Gray Matters to train coders in vernacular languages
Guvi, an ed-tech startup that works towards helping coders acquire newer skills using content in their native language, has announced raising of an...
Google announces Anthos – its Cloud services platform that works across AWS and Azure
In an event yesterday, Google has announced ‘Anthos’ — the new home to the company’s growing Cloud services business. The...
Google releases much awaited Android Q Beta for Pixel devices
Google has finally released the beta version of its next iteration of its mobile operating system, Android Q. The first beta comes with a preview SDK...
Over 770 million emails and 21 million passwords exposed in fresh data breach
Over the past year, we’ve grown accustomed to hacks and data breaches on the internet. Now we’re less than a month into 2019, and...
Microsoft Edge is moving to Chromium, the platform that powers Chrome
Confirming what had become a speculation among the tech community for sometime now, Microsoft has said that it will be moving Edge to the Chromium...
Quora says data of 100 Million users compromised
Yet another incident of a massive data breach has come up, and the affected platform is Quora this time. In a blog post penned by Quora CEO Adam...
Nutanix Xi IoT is now generally available with focus on retail, oil & gas and smartcities
NASDAQ-listed cloud company Nutanix, has now announced the general availability of Xi IoT, a new edge computing service offered as part of the...
THE INTERNET
Reaffirming previous talks of making the platform’s ‘Originals’ section available for free, Youtube’s Chief Business Officer...
Mark Zuckerberg today unveiled, perhaps the biggest redesign of the social network he founded over a decade back. Facebook, at its F8 Developer...
Nikkei confirms majority stake buyout in DealStreetAsia
The startup and tech media domain is seeing a major move today. Nikkei, the Japanese media behemoth that owns the likes of Financial Times among...
A more inclusive Internet experience for all Indians: Fostering IDN adoption & growth in India
Fostering IDN adoption & growth in India
Internet connectivity in India is in a time of significant growth and opportunity. According to a recent...
Twitter’s Q1 numbers zoom past street estimates, $787Mn in revenues but with a drop in MAUs
It has been a strong performance from Twitter on the Wall Street. The company has come up with its first quarter results for 2019 and they have...
Manish Maheshwari joins Twitter as new India MD
Twitter’s long drawn search for an MD for its India business has finally ended. The company has zeroed in on Manish Maheshwari, digital media...
THIS IS OUR FUTURE
icometrix, the global expert in brain imaging Artificial Intelligence solutions, has raised $18 million through a partnership led by Forestay Capital alongside Optum Ventures and existing investor Capricorn Venture Partners.
icometrix’s...
Tesla is expecting to launch a robotaxi network by 2020
Tesla is aiming at developing a ‘robotaxi’ network by 2020, essentially on the base of how Uber and other cab aggregators work. This...
World’s largest plane, the ‘Stratolaunch Roc’, makes its first flight
Stratolaunch, the company that was founded by late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, has finally hit an important milestone in its short company...
Its Amazon vs Microsoft in the $10bn battle to grab Pentagon’s cloud computing contract
Entering its final stages, the battle to pick up the over $10 Billion contract on offer from Pentagon has narrowed down to two players — Amazon...
We finally have the first ever photograph of a black hole, and its breathtaking!
Oh yes! Oh gosh yes! Finally, finally we wouldn’t have to rely on fiction and the Star Wars/Interstellar franchises (without taking any credit...
Alibaba, Tencent and China’s largest automakers will invest $1.5 Bn in ride-hailing companies
Alibaba and Tencent are some of the most prominent names when it comes to Chinese investment in startups, globally. Still, the comapnies feel there...
Intel accelerates towards mass production of 5G modem chips
As OEMs continue to march towards Qualcomm to launch their 5G ready devices, Intel is gearing up to quickstart its own 5G modem chip development...
The Tesla Model Y is here, starts at USD 39000 with a 300-mile range, production starts late 2020
After years of wait and teasers from Elon Musk, the tech billionaire has finally unveiled Model Y. The hugely anticipated electric vehicle, that...
China’s customs authority lifts suspension on Tesla Model 3
In what will be a sign of easing tensions between the US and China and a harbinger of relief for Tesla amid a rusty few months, China’s customs...