Tech investors appear to have found their one true love in Instacart. The startup has been raising tons of money over the past year. Continuing in...
Instacart raises a massive $600 Mn funding at $7 Bn+ valuation
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Asus Zenfone Max M1 and Zenfone Lite L1 launched in India as Flipkart-exclusive
After the success of its Zenfone Max Pro M1 budget smartphone in India, the Taiwan-based company has today launched two new budget phones in India...
Samsung acquires network analysis firm Zhilabs in bid to boost 5G efforts
In a vein similar to many other smartphone manufacturers, Samsung is also attempting to get the early bird advantage by adapting and introducing 5G...
Baidu joins ‘Partnership on AI’, becomes the first Chinese tech firm to do so
‘Partnership on AI’, a collaboration between the world’s biggest tech stalwarts to help people understand and benefit from the use...
TravelTriangle gets $3 million funding from InnoVen Capital to strengthen operations
Travel Triangle, an online travel marketplace that offers a common platform for travellers and travel agents, has received $3 million venture debt...
POWERED Accelerator’s 6 Women-Led energy startups from First Cohort to receive $10,000 each
In what will prove to be a significant boost for women-led companies looking to enter into the energy sector, POWERED accelerator has announced a...
GitHub launches ‘Actions’, a brand new workflow automation tool
GitHub is currently being acquired by Microsoft. The company is adding to its arsenal of offerings and is now launching a brand new capability that...
Why Google is pulling a Yahoo with its project “Dragonfly”?
Of late, Google has come under fire for its Project dragonfly. The company has been secretly developing a search engine for China which its expected...
Instacart raises a massive $600 Mn funding at $7 Bn+ valuation
Tech investors appear to have found their one true love in Instacart. The startup has been raising tons of money over the past year. Continuing in...
Facebook is reportedly working on a camera add-on for our TVs
Technology pervades every aspect of our lives, and their influence is only growing. And this influence appears to be directly proportional to their...
Honor 8X with Kirin 710 SoC and dual rear cameras launched in India
Honor, a sub-brand of Huawei, has today launched Honor 8X smartphone in the Indian market, which is the successor of the Honor 7X. The phone was...
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen passes away at 65
Paul Allen, the school-mate who worked with Bill Gates and persuaded him for a drop-out from Harvard to start Microsoft, has passed away at the age...
Co-working space provider Innov8 bags $4 million funding to expand its operations
The demand for co-working space or shared space is rising in India, thanks to the startup boom. Aiming to cash-in on this demand with expansion of...
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Asus Zenfone Max M1 and Zenfone Lite L1 launched in India as Flipkart-exclusive
After the success of its Zenfone Max Pro M1 budget smartphone in India, the Taiwan-based company has today launched two new budget phones in India...
Samsung acquires network analysis firm Zhilabs in bid to boost 5G efforts
In a vein similar to many other smartphone manufacturers, Samsung is also attempting to get the early bird advantage by adapting and introducing 5G...
Baidu joins ‘Partnership on AI’, becomes the first Chinese tech firm to do so
‘Partnership on AI’, a collaboration between the world’s biggest tech stalwarts to help people understand and benefit from the use...
Asus Zenfone Max M1 and Zenfone Lite L1 launched in India as Flipkart-exclusive
After the success of its Zenfone Max Pro M1 budget smartphone in India, the Taiwan-based company has today launched two new budget phones in India...
Samsung acquires network analysis firm Zhilabs in bid to boost 5G efforts
In a vein similar to many other smartphone manufacturers, Samsung is also attempting to get the early bird advantage by adapting and introducing 5G...
Baidu joins ‘Partnership on AI’, becomes the first Chinese tech firm to do so
‘Partnership on AI’, a collaboration between the world’s biggest tech stalwarts to help people understand and benefit from the use...
GitHub launches ‘Actions’, a brand new workflow automation tool
GitHub is currently being acquired by Microsoft. The company is adding to its arsenal of offerings and is now launching a brand new capability that...
Why Google is pulling a Yahoo with its project “Dragonfly”?
Of late, Google has come under fire for its Project dragonfly. The company has been secretly developing a search engine for China which its expected...
Instacart raises a massive $600 Mn funding at $7 Bn+ valuation
Tech investors appear to have found their one true love in Instacart. The startup has been raising tons of money over the past year. Continuing in...
Facebook is reportedly working on a camera add-on for our TVs
Technology pervades every aspect of our lives, and their influence is only growing. And this influence appears to be directly proportional to their...
Honor 8X with Kirin 710 SoC and dual rear cameras launched in India
Honor, a sub-brand of Huawei, has today launched Honor 8X smartphone in the Indian market, which is the successor of the Honor 7X. The phone was...
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen passes away at 65
Paul Allen, the school-mate who worked with Bill Gates and persuaded him for a drop-out from Harvard to start Microsoft, has passed away at the age...
Palm is coming back, in a $349 microscopic avatar
Once upon a time, there was Palm, and almost everyone had one…….until almost overnight it seemed to disappear. Now, a San Francisco based...
As tech stocks continue slipping, SoftBank loses over $22 Bn
The outrage over Jamal Khasnhoggi, the journalist who disappeared after walking into the Saudi Arabian consulate in Turkey, continues to affect tech...
HTC Exodus blockchain-based smartphone to launch on October 22
Earlier this year in May, HTC had announced its HTC Evolve blockchain-based smartphone and now it appears that the company is all set to launch the...
startups
Travel Triangle, an online travel marketplace that offers a common platform for travellers and travel agents, has received $3 million venture debt funding from...
In what will prove to be a significant boost for women-led companies looking to enter into the energy sector, POWERED accelerator has announced a seed fund...
Tech investors appear to have found their one true love in Instacart. The startup has been raising tons of money over the past year. Continuing in the same...
Co-working space provider Innov8 bags $4 million funding to expand its operations
The demand for co-working space or shared space is rising in India, thanks to the startup boom. Aiming to cash-in on this demand with expansion of...
As tech stocks continue slipping, SoftBank loses over $22 Bn
The outrage over Jamal Khasnhoggi, the journalist who disappeared after walking into the Saudi Arabian consulate in Turkey, continues to affect tech...
Elon Musk refutes claims that James Murdoch is lead candidate for Tesla chairmanship
Post his spat with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Elon Musk ended up paying tens of millions of dollars in fine. From our limited knowledge...
Blue Origin among companies receiving $2 Bn contracts from the US Air Force
The United States Air Force has awarded defense contracts worth over $2 Billion, to three companies. Under the terms of the contract, the United...
Car sharing platform Revv expands operations to four new cities
Car sharing platform Revv has announced the expansion of its services to four new cities, which includes Kolkata, Ahmedabad, Kochi, and Mangalore...
Softbank eyeing majority stake in WeWork with fresh investment
Looking to double down its bet on an increasingly loss-making WeWork, a fresh report from Reuters suggests that the Japanese conglomerate is looking...
“So, how are things now at Snapdeal?”
A day doesn’t go by when someone doesn’t ask me this question – “So, how are things now at Snapdeal?” I do my best to answer the question...
Food-tech startup FreshMenu looking to raise $75 million to fuel its expansion plans
FreshMenu, a Bangalore-based food-tech startup that operates an online food ordering platform, is reportedly looking to raise $75 million in its...
apps
Twitter has a brand new data saver feature
Taking a leaf out of Facebook’s book, Twitter has released a brand new feature that will let users save data while using its android or iOS...
Paytm adds a new Spam Free SMS Inbox to Paytm Inbox
In the company’s continued bid to make its ‘Paytm Inbox’ product within the app a more preferred choice for consumers, Paytm is...
Converting Videos Using Movavi Video Converter
At first glance it may seem as though converting videos is unnecessary as computers tend to be fairly versatile in terms of the formats they can...
Best Android Apps of August 2017
Since we already started a new month, let us look at some of best Android Apps released in the month of August. Each category has a bunch of new or...
Google’s new Android application will let you manage the data being used by other apps
Google is testing a brand new application that will let users manage the mobile data usage on their smartphones. Excited? I bet. We have all been...
Facebook is bringing in new filters, reactions and masks to its messenger video chat
Facebook’s video chat is pretty cool. I used to be a WhatsApp fan for video calls, but the reactions, filters and masks available on...
Facebook shows off new standalone app for video creators, to release later this year
To further discuss its live video-focused ambitions, Facebook today took center stage at VidCon, the largest online creator meetup and announced that...
YouTube’s mobile app will soon ‘dynamically’ adapt videos to fit the screen
YouTube is the biggest playground for video content on the interwebs. While you can find high-quality videos from full-time video creators, the...
gadgets
After the success of its Zenfone Max Pro M1 budget smartphone in India, the Taiwan-based company has today launched two new budget phones in India — Zenfone Max M1...
Honor, a sub-brand of Huawei, has today launched Honor 8X smartphone in the Indian market, which is the successor of the Honor 7X. The phone was originally launched in...
Palm is coming back, in a $349 microscopic avatar
Once upon a time, there was Palm, and almost everyone had one…….until almost overnight it seemed to disappear. Now, a San Francisco based...
HTC Exodus blockchain-based smartphone to launch on October 22
Earlier this year in May, HTC had announced its HTC Evolve blockchain-based smartphone and now it appears that the company is all set to launch the...
Xiaomi’s Poco F1 will be available for purchase offline from tomorrow
Poco F1, the first smartphone from Xiaomi’s sub-brand Poco, was launched a couple of months ago as an online-exclusive device. Now, the company...
Samsung Galaxy A9 (2018) debuts as the world’s first quad camera smartphone
Samsung recently changed its strategy for the mid-range smartphones and decided to offer premium features on budget devices first, even before...
code
Devops platform JFrog bags $165 Mn from Insight Venture Partners and others
Riding on the spur created by Microsoft’s Github acquisition, there’s a second DevOps platform entering the unicorn club now. After...
Gitlab raises $100 Million in Series D, eyes IPO by November 2020
Welcome this latest fresher to the Unicorn club! Gitlab, the company that aims to develop a single-source platform for the entire devops lifecycle...
Microsoft has decided to extend Edge browser’s bug bounty program indefinitely
Microsoft appears to have had quite a bit of success with its bug bounty program. And it has probably worked well for Microsoft’s Edge browser...
WhatsApp extends support for older Android versions until 2020
Due to prevailing fragmentation in the Android ecosystem, Facebook-owned messaging giant WhatsApp has now decided to further extend support of its...
Now NSA has a GitHub account, and it just open-sourced 32 internal projects
National Security Agency, well-known to everyone as the NSA, is one of the most secretive intelligence organizations of the United States. It has...
Nintendo Switch could soon enable kids to code their own games on the console
Nintendo Switch may now have become a staple for gamers across the globe but the hybrid console will soon also come in handy as a coding tool in the...
IBM to open more physical ‘Garages’ to develop iOS enterprise apps
Three years ago, Apple and IBM formed a partnership to create more enterprise apps for iOS. IBM has now announced that it will be taking this...
Google Cloud Platform unveils its first Southeast Asian center in Singapore
Internet giant Google today unveils its first Google Cloud servers in Singapore, after witnessing a 100% increase in paid customers of the nation...
the internet
GitHub is currently being acquired by Microsoft. The company is adding to its arsenal of offerings and is now launching a brand new capability that...
Cloudera, the modern platform for machine learning and analytics for the cloud, has announced the appointment of Vinod Ganesan as Country Manager for...
NITI Aayog enters into agreement with Microsoft India for AI technology
With an aim to democratize access to artificial intelligence, NITI Aayog and Microsoft India has announced an agreement that will leverage the...
Tata Communications launches state-of-the-art Cyber Security Response Centre in Chennai
Tata Communications has unveiled a new, state-of-the-art Cyber Security Response Centre (CSRC) in Chennai. It was jointly inaugurated by Ms. Rama...
Walmart asks tech vendors not to use AWS to continue working with retail giant
The Walmart and Amazon battle now has been escalated to another level as Wal-Mart has asked its technology vendors not to use Amazon Web Services.
As...
Infosys drops its $20Bn revenue goal, evaluates board members & forms advisory panel for CEO
Infosys, one of the largest IT services company in India, has now dropped its ambitious long-term revenue target of $20 billion. The company’s...
this is our future
‘Partnership on AI’, a collaboration between the world’s biggest tech stalwarts to help people understand and benefit from the use of AI, is now being joined by Chinese search giant, Baidu. This will also make Baidu, the first...
Elon Musk fined $20Million and a step down as Tesla Chairman for his ‘Go-to-private’ tweets
Elon Musk, who was under tremendous pressure within Tesla and from company shareholders for putting the company’s future at risk via his...
Mozilla’s VR-only ‘Firefox Reality’ web browser is now available
Mozilla’s ‘Firefox Reality’, a VR-only browser that the company announced in April earlier this year, is now available for general...
Audi announces e-tron SUV, its first production ready fully-electric vehicle
Looking to take on Tesla in its very own backyard in partnership with Amazon, Audi has launched its very first, product ready electric vehicle. The...
Tesla and other manufacturers are looking for ways to ensure that drivers keep their hands on the wheel
Tesla and a slew of car manufacturers are currently wracking their heads regarding situations wherein the driver takes their hands off the steering...
Amazon patents futuristic-looking beehive delivery drone tower
Amazon knows drones are the future of package delivery. It is bulking up on resources and technology to emerge as one of the most prominent...
With launch of Cartosat-2 and 30 nano satellites, ISRO completes 40th successful PSLV flight
The Indian Space Research Organization, widely known as ISRO, has today completed another successful flight, further showing off its growing prowess...
Google Glass receives its first ever update since 2014, could a revival be on the cards?
It seems like Google’s vaunted Glass project isn’t quite dead yet. The company has released a brand new update for the platform...
Xbox head Phil Spencer spills the beans on mysterious ‘Direct Reality’ trademark
Just ahead of the Electronic Entertainment Expo (commonly known as E3) earlier last week, we spotted a trademark application for “Direct...