The Newsroom business model is currently in a very precarious state. Traditional news delivery modes such newspapers and TV News are dwindling at...
Facebook to invest $300 million over a span of 3 years in local news media
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Laceless shoes have never been this cool. Here’s the Nike Adapt BB
Over the past few years, technology has trickled down to various facets of human life. But shoes…? That’s something technology still...
Google’s G Suite web apps are getting the Material Design overhaul
Google is now spreading its user interface approach — Material Design — to more of its online applications, including Google Docs...
Tesla offers a quicker and cleaner looking alternative with the new Wall Charger
Tesla yesterday unveiled their new Wall Charger that can be plugged directly into a NEMA 14-50 outlet. This is a common high-voltage plug-point in...
Fintech giant Finserv acquires First Data for a record $22 Billion
While fintech focus has mostly revolved around startups and their financing for the past few years, the more established giants in the space are...
Microsoft’s corporate venture fund, the ‘M12’, expands to India
There’s more money coming in for Indian startups. M12, Microsoft’s corporate venture fund, announced it would extend its investing coverage...
LG V40 ThinQ launching in India on 20th January as an Amazon-exclusive smartphone
LG V40 ThinQ, the latest flagship coming in from LG, will finally be available for purchase in India from 20th January, exclusively through Amazon...
Facebook to invest $300 million over a span of 3 years in local news media
The Newsroom business model is currently in a very precarious state. Traditional news delivery modes such newspapers and TV News are dwindling at...
Flipkart co-founder Sachin Bansal invests $21 million in Ola, commits total investment of $100 million
Sachin Bansal, the co-founder of India’s leading e-commerce marketplace Flipkart, has invested $21 million in Ola — the leading...
Apple’s AirPower wireless charging pad could finally make it to the market in Q1 2019
It looks like Apple AirPad Charging Mat may come to fruition after all. First announced back in 2017, alongside the iPhone 8 and the iPhone x, the...
SpaceX set to lay off 10% of its workforce in order to get “leaner”
Things haven’t been going great for Elon Musk over the past year. But it’s about to get way worse for the employees in his rocket...
Co-living startup Grexter secures $1.5 million in its Pre-Series A funding round
Venture Catalysts is placing its bet on the rental accommodation sphere and has invested $1.5 million in Grexter — one of the leading...
The $4.5 Bn valued SenseTime unveils a driving range for self-driving cars in Japan
The world’s highest-valued A.I start-up, SenseTime marks its arrival into Japan by unveiling their autonomous driving track in the city of...
essential tech
Laceless shoes have never been this cool. Here’s the Nike Adapt BB
Over the past few years, technology has trickled down to various facets of human life. But shoes…? That’s something technology still...
Google’s G Suite web apps are getting the Material Design overhaul
Google is now spreading its user interface approach — Material Design — to more of its online applications, including Google Docs...
Tesla offers a quicker and cleaner looking alternative with the new Wall Charger
Tesla yesterday unveiled their new Wall Charger that can be plugged directly into a NEMA 14-50 outlet. This is a common high-voltage plug-point in...
Laceless shoes have never been this cool. Here’s the Nike Adapt BB
Over the past few years, technology has trickled down to various facets of human life. But shoes…? That’s something technology still...
Google’s G Suite web apps are getting the Material Design overhaul
Google is now spreading its user interface approach — Material Design — to more of its online applications, including Google Docs...
Tesla offers a quicker and cleaner looking alternative with the new Wall Charger
Tesla yesterday unveiled their new Wall Charger that can be plugged directly into a NEMA 14-50 outlet. This is a common high-voltage plug-point in...
Fintech giant Finserv acquires First Data for a record $22 Billion
While fintech focus has mostly revolved around startups and their financing for the past few years, the more established giants in the space are...
LG V40 ThinQ launching in India on 20th January as an Amazon-exclusive smartphone
LG V40 ThinQ, the latest flagship coming in from LG, will finally be available for purchase in India from 20th January, exclusively through Amazon...
Facebook to invest $300 million over a span of 3 years in local news media
The Newsroom business model is currently in a very precarious state. Traditional news delivery modes such newspapers and TV News are dwindling at...
Apple’s AirPower wireless charging pad could finally make it to the market in Q1 2019
It looks like Apple AirPad Charging Mat may come to fruition after all. First announced back in 2017, alongside the iPhone 8 and the iPhone x, the...
SpaceX set to lay off 10% of its workforce in order to get “leaner”
Things haven’t been going great for Elon Musk over the past year. But it’s about to get way worse for the employees in his rocket...
The $4.5 Bn valued SenseTime unveils a driving range for self-driving cars in Japan
The world’s highest-valued A.I start-up, SenseTime marks its arrival into Japan by unveiling their autonomous driving track in the city of...
Xiaomi launches the Redmi Note 7 at CNY 999 with a Snapdragon 660 processor
While everyone in California is obsessing over the latest and futuristic tech in California with CES 2019, Xiaomi has given the tech enthusiasts in...
Huawei Y9 2019 with 6.5-inch display and 4GB RAM launched in India for Rs. 15,990
Huawei has announced its new mid-range smartphone Huawei Y9 2019 in the Indian market. This launch also marks the debut of the Y-series smartphones...
Samsung Galaxy S10 launch event scheduled on 20th February
Samsung has been launching its Galaxy S-series smartphones a few days ahead of Mobile World Congress in Barcelona (MWC) and this time is no...
startups
There’s more money coming in for Indian startups. M12, Microsoft’s corporate venture fund, announced it would extend its investing coverage to India...
Sachin Bansal, the co-founder of India’s leading e-commerce marketplace Flipkart, has invested $21 million in Ola — the leading ride-hailing...
Venture Catalysts is placing its bet on the rental accommodation sphere and has invested $1.5 million in Grexter — one of the leading tech-based...
The $4.5 Bn valued SenseTime unveils a driving range for self-driving cars in Japan
The world’s highest-valued A.I start-up, SenseTime marks its arrival into Japan by unveiling their autonomous driving track in the city of...
OLX acquires Aasaanjobs to expand its jobs classifieds vertical
In a bid to expand its jobs classifieds business in India, OLX Group has acquired Aasaanjobs — an online recruitment marketplace for blue and...
Pokemon GO maker Niantic pockets$190Mn ahead of Harry Potter game launch
Niantic, a startup which makes mobile augmented reality (AR) games, has secured $190 million in a new Series C funding round, as revealed by the...
Servify acquires gadget repair startup iService in cash-and-stock deal
Servify, a Mumbai-based company that offers brand-authorized after-sales service for devices, has announced the acquisition of Bengaluru-based gadget...
CarDekho bags $110 million Series C round from Sequoia, CapitalG, others
CarDekho, an online market for automobiles, has announced that it has secured $110 million in Series C funding round, led by existing investors...
After Swiggy, Zomato is reportedly raising $1 Billion of its own
India’s food-tech market is getting a bit more spicy now. As the market matures and market penetration for food delivery services increases...
Paytm Payments Bank finally gets RBI nod to add new customers
Paytm, which was among the first to launch the payments bank service in India, hasn’t had a good run so far. Soon after launching the service...
High Street Essentials raises ₹60 crore Series B funding round from SAIF Partners
Noida-based High Street Essentials, which owns and operates omni-channel women’s fashion brands FabAlley and Indya, has raised ₹60 crore Series B...
apps
US Court dismisses facial recognition lawsuit against Google over lack of “concrete injuries”
There has been a development in the ongoing Rivera vs Google case in Illinois, USA. Well it is more of an outcome rather than development as the...
Abandon all spam and promotional stuff from your SMS inbox with SmartSMS
We all are victims. Victims of this digital age and victims of incessant, never-ending spammed promotions from brands. No matter what you do, how...
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...
consumer tech
Over the past few years, technology has trickled down to various facets of human life. But shoes…? That’s something technology still hasn’t exactly...
Tesla yesterday unveiled their new Wall Charger that can be plugged directly into a NEMA 14-50 outlet. This is a common high-voltage plug-point in the USA. One of the...
LG V40 ThinQ launching in India on 20th January as an Amazon-exclusive smartphone
LG V40 ThinQ, the latest flagship coming in from LG, will finally be available for purchase in India from 20th January, exclusively through Amazon...
Apple’s AirPower wireless charging pad could finally make it to the market in Q1 2019
It looks like Apple AirPad Charging Mat may come to fruition after all. First announced back in 2017, alongside the iPhone 8 and the iPhone x, the...
Xiaomi launches the Redmi Note 7 at CNY 999 with a Snapdragon 660 processor
While everyone in California is obsessing over the latest and futuristic tech in California with CES 2019, Xiaomi has given the tech enthusiasts in...
Huawei Y9 2019 with 6.5-inch display and 4GB RAM launched in India for Rs. 15,990
Huawei has announced its new mid-range smartphone Huawei Y9 2019 in the Indian market. This launch also marks the debut of the Y-series smartphones...
code
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...
the internet
Instagram made all its users lose their minds in the holy holidays week, when it rolled out a major update which changed the way people interact with...
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...
At re:Invent, AWS launches managed Kafka service
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...
this is our future
Tesla yesterday unveiled their new Wall Charger that can be plugged directly into a NEMA 14-50 outlet. This is a common high-voltage plug-point in the USA. One of the most cumbersome decisions while buying a Tesla is figuring out a solution for...
SpaceX set to lay off 10% of its workforce in order to get “leaner”
Things haven’t been going great for Elon Musk over the past year. But it’s about to get way worse for the employees in his rocket...
The $4.5 Bn valued SenseTime unveils a driving range for self-driving cars in Japan
The world’s highest-valued A.I start-up, SenseTime marks its arrival into Japan by unveiling their autonomous driving track in the city of...
Taxi service by day, cargo delivery vehicle by night — here’s Mercedes’ new modular autonomous EV, Vision Urbanetic
Cars are one of the biggest draws in mega tech events such as Consumer Electronics Show (CES). And over the past few years, phrases such as...
IBM unveils its first ever commercial Quantum Computer
In the race towards achieving computing supremacy, almost every tech corporation has been trying their hand at the extremely hyped-Quantum computers...
There’s a new smart Kitchen display by KitchenAid that is powered by Google Assistant
KitchenAid is previewing an addition to its connected offerings with a multi-functional Smart Display with the Google Assistant for home cooks: the...
Elon Musk breaks ground on new Tesla Gigafactory 3 in China
UPDATE : Elon Musk has finally broken ground on Tesla’s third Gigafactory, slated to come up in Shanghai, China.
Tesla CEO @elonmusk...
A spaceship for the future inspired by the past, here’s a first look at SpaceX’s Starship
Yesterday, Elon Musk once again took to Twitter to give us a sneak peek at the prototype of The Starship, SpaceX’s flagship spaceship. The...
Tesla reportedly has over 3000 Model 3 units left in the US inventory
It just isn’t turning out to be the right year for Tesla, and the company will be more than eager to let this pass asap. While its stock...