Apple said on Monday, that it has filed an appeal to overturn a court decision that could ban iPhone sales in China. This essentially means, that...
Apple will continue to sell older iPhone models in China following court injunction
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Bengaluru-based mattress maker Wakefit bags ₹65 crore funding from Sequoia Capital
Wakefit, a Bengaluru-based company that makes mattress and sleep-related products, has announced that it has secured ₹65 crore funding from...
Apple will continue to sell older iPhone models in China following court injunction
Apple said on Monday, that it has filed an appeal to overturn a court decision that could ban iPhone sales in China. This essentially means, that...
Here’s everything you need to know about the newly launched Nokia flagship, the 8.1
HMD Global has launched its latest mid-range smartphone in India. Priced at Rs. 26,999, the phone is now up for pre-order and will start shipping...
Car financing startup OTO Capital secures ₹5 crore in seed round
OTO Capital, a Mumbai-based car financing startup has raised around ₹5 crore in its seed funding round which was led by funding platform Venture...
Google rolls out “For You” feature for iOS and other Android devices globally
Ever since the announcement was made at Google I/O back in May, Google Maps app has been in a major overhaul mode. Significant updates have been...
Google has acquired popular train tracking app ‘Where is my Train’
Popular Android app ‘Where is my Train’, which offers several ways to track locations of trains on Indian railways (world’s third...
Tencent Music investor files lawsuit, days before its $1.2 Billion IPO
Tencent Music’s IPO — the most recent talk of the town and the street in tech community — continues to ride on the whirlwind year...
Essential acquires CloudMagic, the parent company of Newton Mail app
Essential, a smartphone company founded by Android founder Andy Rubin, has announced the acquisition of CloudMagic, the parent company of Newton Mail...
Zomato debuts its events business with multi-city food carnival Zomaland
Zomato, one of the leading restaurant discovery and food delivery startup in the Indian market, has announced its foray into the events space with...
Chinese A.I. upstart Megvii is raising $500Mn at a $3.5Bn valuation
There’s more money pouring into China’s maturing technology and startup ecosystem. According to a Reuters report, Megvii, the Chinese AI...
Softbank Vision Fund nearing its $100 Billion mark
Softbank’s much talked about ‘Vision Fund’ — which by the way has already been used by the company for quite a few...
Nasa’s InSight lander captures the sounds of wind on Mars
The sound of the wind on Mars has been captured for the first time by Nasa’s InSight lander, which landed on the Elysium Planitia region of...
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Apple will continue to sell older iPhone models in China following court injunction
Apple said on Monday, that it has filed an appeal to overturn a court decision that could ban iPhone sales in China. This essentially means, that...
Here’s everything you need to know about the newly launched Nokia flagship, the 8.1
HMD Global has launched its latest mid-range smartphone in India. Priced at Rs. 26,999, the phone is now up for pre-order and will start shipping...
Google rolls out “For You” feature for iOS and other Android devices globally
Ever since the announcement was made at Google I/O back in May, Google Maps app has been in a major overhaul mode. Significant updates have been...
Apple will continue to sell older iPhone models in China following court injunction
Apple said on Monday, that it has filed an appeal to overturn a court decision that could ban iPhone sales in China. This essentially means, that...
Here’s everything you need to know about the newly launched Nokia flagship, the 8.1
HMD Global has launched its latest mid-range smartphone in India. Priced at Rs. 26,999, the phone is now up for pre-order and will start shipping...
Google rolls out “For You” feature for iOS and other Android devices globally
Ever since the announcement was made at Google I/O back in May, Google Maps app has been in a major overhaul mode. Significant updates have been...
Google has acquired popular train tracking app ‘Where is my Train’
Popular Android app ‘Where is my Train’, which offers several ways to track locations of trains on Indian railways (world’s third...
Essential acquires CloudMagic, the parent company of Newton Mail app
Essential, a smartphone company founded by Android founder Andy Rubin, has announced the acquisition of CloudMagic, the parent company of Newton Mail...
Chinese A.I. upstart Megvii is raising $500Mn at a $3.5Bn valuation
There’s more money pouring into China’s maturing technology and startup ecosystem. According to a Reuters report, Megvii, the Chinese AI...
Uber confidentially files for an IPO seeking $120 Billion in valuation
In what will easily become one of the most anticipated public market debuts in the technology sector, a Wall Street Journal report states, that Uber...
London based A&R startup Platoon acquired by Apple
Music Business Worldwide reports that Apple Inc. has acquired Platoon – a creative services firm. It is a London based A&R start-up that...
‘Part of the journey is the end’ : The Avengers End Game trailer is out, and its cryptic at best
After months of endless torment, Marvel has decided to put its fans out of misery. Marvel just dropped the trailer for the most awaited film of 2019...
Facebook to check all Indian political ads amid Election season
Following the Cambridge Analytica blunder, and multiple other breaches and privacy issues, Facebook is now taking a more cautious approach to ensure...
Alexa to get smarter with Alexa Answers – a new crowdsourcing program by Amazon
Amazon burst onto the personal assistant scene (and fairly dominated it since then) when it launched the first Echo device in 2014. It was one of the...
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...
startups
Wakefit, a Bengaluru-based company that makes mattress and sleep-related products, has announced that it has secured ₹65 crore funding from Sequoia...
OTO Capital, a Mumbai-based car financing startup has raised around ₹5 crore in its seed funding round which was led by funding platform Venture Catalysts. K...
Popular Android app ‘Where is my Train’, which offers several ways to track locations of trains on Indian railways (world’s third largest...
Tencent Music investor files lawsuit, days before its $1.2 Billion IPO
Tencent Music’s IPO — the most recent talk of the town and the street in tech community — continues to ride on the whirlwind year...
Zomato debuts its events business with multi-city food carnival Zomaland
Zomato, one of the leading restaurant discovery and food delivery startup in the Indian market, has announced its foray into the events space with...
Chinese A.I. upstart Megvii is raising $500Mn at a $3.5Bn valuation
There’s more money pouring into China’s maturing technology and startup ecosystem. According to a Reuters report, Megvii, the Chinese AI...
Softbank Vision Fund nearing its $100 Billion mark
Softbank’s much talked about ‘Vision Fund’ — which by the way has already been used by the company for quite a few...
Zomato acquires drone startup TechEagle, sets up stage for drone powered deliveries
Is Zomato seriously looking for a drone-based hub-to-hub delivery angle ? From the acquisition it has just made, pretty much seems like that. The...
Infibeam invests ₹6 crore in Mumbai-based Instant Global Paytech
Infibeam, India’s first e-commerce startup to get listed, has announced that it made a strategic investment worth ₹6 crore in Instant...
Singapore’s Grab could invest $100 million in OYO
Singapore-based ride-hailing upstart Grab, is reportedly in talks with Oyo for investing around $100 million in the hotel marketplace. According to...
Minneapolis-based Insurtech upstart Bright Health raises $ 200Mn in Series C, now valued at $950 Mn
The insurance space which many claim as being quite unremarkable over the past few years, is now witnessing a huge shift thanks to the introduction...
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Google has acquired popular train tracking app ‘Where is my Train’
Popular Android app ‘Where is my Train’, which offers several ways to track locations of trains on Indian railways (world’s third...
Essential acquires CloudMagic, the parent company of Newton Mail app
Essential, a smartphone company founded by Android founder Andy Rubin, has announced the acquisition of CloudMagic, the parent company of Newton Mail...
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...
Pokémon Go is finally getting the player vs player Battle mode
Niantic, the company which took the world by storm two and a half years ago when they dropped perhaps one of the most successful mobile AR games in...
An ironic ‘Hey Siri, OK Google’ can now pop up Google Assistant on iOS
Who would have thought, that a ‘Hey Siri’ shortcut on Apple’s famed voice assistant could also help you get to Google’s own...
Google’s “.new” domains help you create new docs, forms, sheets and slides in a matter of seconds
In what has already become a “breaking-the-internet” of sorts productivity hack, Google has rolled out an awesome new functionality to...
Uber will now recommend vehicles best suited for your trip
Uber is improving its services. The shakeup at the top levels of the company seems to have led to an approach that calls for giving greater emphasis...
Uber’s Middle Eastern rival Careem lifts a hefty $200 million
Middle Easts based cab hiring behemoth, Careem has revealed that it has raised a substantial $200 million from its existing investors. As per...
consumer tech
Apple said on Monday, that it has filed an appeal to overturn a court decision that could ban iPhone sales in China. This essentially means, that all of company’s...
HMD Global has launched its latest mid-range smartphone in India. Priced at Rs. 26,999, the phone is now up for pre-order and will start shipping from 21st December...
Google rolls out “For You” feature for iOS and other Android devices globally
Ever since the announcement was made at Google I/O back in May, Google Maps app has been in a major overhaul mode. Significant updates have been...
Essential acquires CloudMagic, the parent company of Newton Mail app
Essential, a smartphone company founded by Android founder Andy Rubin, has announced the acquisition of CloudMagic, the parent company of Newton Mail...
Uber confidentially files for an IPO seeking $120 Billion in valuation
In what will easily become one of the most anticipated public market debuts in the technology sector, a Wall Street Journal report states, that Uber...
London based A&R startup Platoon acquired by Apple
Music Business Worldwide reports that Apple Inc. has acquired Platoon – a creative services firm. It is a London based A&R start-up that...
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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...
Amazon thumped by a major data breach just as it gears up for Black Friday
Just as Amazon geared up for the busiest period of sales in the year, they were thumped by a mysterious data breach. This data breach comes just two...
Microsoft acquires FSLogix in order to enhance its virtual desktop experience
Microsoft has today taken a step further in its bid to deliver a one-stop virtual desktop solution for consumers to run Office 365 and Windows 10 on...
Global multi-factor authentication outage locks out Office 365, Azure users
A global multi-factor authentication outage has resulted in Microsoft hosted customers across the globe, being locked out of their accounts. If you...
Airtable, a coding platform for non-programmers, scores $100Mn in Series C
Coding is growing. Be it Governments, organisations, corporates — everyone wants their people to code, or at least learn the basics of coding...
IBM to acquire Red Hat for a record $34 Billion
Marking its biggest ever acquisition in the company’s over century old history, IBM on Sunday announced that it is acquiring US-based software...
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IBM has announced that the company has agreed to sell select software assets to HCL Technologies for $1.8 billion. The move comes at a time when the...
If you have ever worked with large amounts of data, you are probably familiar with Kafka, an open source service that lets folks easily manage...
AWS launches RoboMaker service for building intelligent robotics apps
Amazon Web Services has today announced the availability of AWS RoboMaker, a new service that makes it easy for developers to develop, test, and...
DPC acts against LinkedIn’s use of 18 million non-user e-mail addresses to target its ads
The Irish Data Protection Commission has issued a brand new report according to which, LinkedIn, the social networking website for professionals, has...
Amazon simplifies adding customized language lists to Comprehend
Comprehend is Amazon’s natural language processing tool, announced last year to help businesses selectively extract words and phrases. Amazon...
Human rights groups ask Facebook to introduce due process for content takedowns
The Electronic Frontier Foundation and Human Rights Watch are among a consortium of over 70 human rights group that have joined together in asking...
this is our future
There’s more money pouring into China’s maturing technology and startup ecosystem. According to a Reuters report, Megvii, the Chinese AI upstart more popularly known by its product ‘Face++’, is looking to raise as much as...
Nasa’s InSight lander captures the sounds of wind on Mars
The sound of the wind on Mars has been captured for the first time by Nasa’s InSight lander, which landed on the Elysium Planitia region of...
Volkswagen group wont launch petrol or diesel cars come 2026
When VW was hit by one of the biggest scandals in automotive history, there was an outburst from the automotive community against the company. VW saw...
There’s a second Samsung 5G phone coming up next year, this time via AT&T
Samsung has another 5G smartphone scheduled for a launch in 2019 — way ahead of the rest of the smartphone pack. While most OEMs are still in...
India’s heaviest communication satellite, GSAT 11 successfully launched
In what is is set to bring a tectonic shift in India’s broadband and internet connectivity, ISRO’s 5800kgs heavyweight communication...
Audi will spend $16 Billion on electric vehicles and self-driving tech
Massive investments from traditional automakers into future mobility tech is getting a major impetus today. Auto Union Der Inglostadt, popularly...
CIMON robot aboard the ISS asks astronaut to “not be mean, please”!
In what may look like a realisation of what we have been thinking AI powered humanoids should actually be doing, CIMON — a robot which boarded...
PSLV-C43 successfully places India’s HysIS and 30 other satellites into orbit
In yet another successful, clinically precise mission, ISRO’s highly dependable Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle or the PSLV – C43 ...
ISRO prepares for its third biggest launch and here’s all you need to know
While developed space agencies like NASA continue to spend billions on space exploration mission, ISRO has time and again proved, the...