In yet another blow to internet giants, especially the likes of Google and Facebook, the EU has now approved tougher copyright rules, which would...
EU tightens copyright rules, makes it tougher for tech companies to host creative content online
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EU tightens copyright rules, makes it tougher for tech companies to host creative content online
In yet another blow to internet giants, especially the likes of Google and Facebook, the EU has now approved tougher copyright rules, which would...
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...
Uber files for IPO
As reported previously, Uber yesterday, filed for its S-1 class IPO with the SEC. The company plans to list itself with the New York Stock Exchange...
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...
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...
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...
India is Youtube’s biggest and fastest growing market now : CEO Susan Wojcicki
Youtube has thrown in some new numbers at us now, with respect to viewership in India and the overall market. In the Youtube Brandcast event that the...
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...
Google accidentally reveals its budget Pixel phone, the ‘Pixel 3a’
Accidental leaks and Google pretty much go hand-in-hand. If you’d remember, last year’s Pixel 3 launch saw a lot of leaks accidentally...
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...
African units of OLX acquired by local classifieds player Jiji
In a major consolidation in the ecommerce space in Africa, Jiji, one of the leaders in the classifieds business in the continent, has acquired...
ESSENTIAL TECH
EU tightens copyright rules, makes it tougher for tech companies to host creative content online
In yet another blow to internet giants, especially the likes of Google and Facebook, the EU has now approved tougher copyright rules, which would...
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...
Uber files for IPO
As reported previously, Uber yesterday, filed for its S-1 class IPO with the SEC. The company plans to list itself with the New York Stock Exchange...
EU tightens copyright rules, makes it tougher for tech companies to host creative content online
In yet another blow to internet giants, especially the likes of Google and Facebook, the EU has now approved tougher copyright rules, which would...
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...
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...
India is Youtube’s biggest and fastest growing market now : CEO Susan Wojcicki
Youtube has thrown in some new numbers at us now, with respect to viewership in India and the overall market. In the Youtube Brandcast event that the...
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...
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...
[UPDATE] More Facebook data found lying exposed on public servers
UPDATE [1:41 PM IST, April 4th, 2019]
Facebook has announced that it has removed all of the data that was lying exposed on Amazon servers.
Cultura...
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...
Whatsapp launches a new tipline for Indian users to report misinformation during elections
Whatsapp is looking to go deeper in identifying fake news and is now relying on its strong India userbase to help it do that. The company on Tuesday...
Google India and SE Asia head Rajan Anandan joins Sequoia Capital as India MD
UPDATE
Rajan Anandan has joined Sequoia Capital as their India Managing Director. The same was revealed by Shailendra Singh, MD at Sequoia Capital...
STARTUPS
We have some more insider news on arguably the most anticipated tech IPO in history. According to an exclusive report published by Reuters today, Uber is...
Oyo is today announcing its expansion into Japan, in partnership with Yahoo! Japan Corporation. Oyo’s aggressive international expansion will move into...
Mswipe, the point of sales fintech company in this sea of mobile-only fintechs, has raised a fresh $30 Million round from multiple returning investors. The...
Airbnb confirms its investment in OYO
Airbnb’s much speculated investment in Oyo has now been confirmed by the company. While the deal size is not officially put, multiple media...
Nykaa has raised $14 mn from TPG Growth Capital, valued at $724 mn
Nykaa, the fashion and beauty products ecommerce upstart, has raised a fresh $14 million round from TPG Growth Capital. The round has valued Nykaa at...
Zomato is reportedly acquiring hyperlocal delivery startup Dunzo
Zaomto is looking to acquire hyperlocal delivery startup Dunzo, according to a report coming in from Money Control. The acquisition’s size and...
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...
In a first, Y Combinator to conduct interviews for its Summer’19 batch in India as well
Highlighting the growing startup ecosystem and subsequent applications to its prestigious accelerator program, Y Combinator has announced that it...
Uber to buy Middle East rival Careem for $3.1 Billion in cash and stock
Its confirmed and official. The hugely speculated acquisition of Careem by Uber is now official with both companies releasing a statement on the...
Uber’s $3.1 Billion buyout of Careem could be announced this week
In what will go down as — in all certainty — the biggest milestone for Middle East’s nascent yet aggressively growing technology...
Flipkart has set-up an internal fund to invest in fin-tech, SaaS, logistics among others
Walmart-owned Flipkart has now set up a more structured unit, that will look into the company’s aggressively growing acquisition ambitions. The...
APPS
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...
Youtube Music and Youtube Premium are now available in India
YouTube Music has been officially launched in India. The video streaming service was launched in the US and a few countries in 2017. Along with...
CONSUMER TECH
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...
Looks like Apple is on top of getting things in order, in the world’s fastest growing smartphone market. The Cupertino giant, after announcing 6% price cuts on the...
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...
Apple Watch detects ‘irregular heartbeat’ in over 4000 users in a medical study
The Apple Watch was able to detect an irregular heart beat in over 2000 users according to researchers at Stanford Medicine researchers at the...
CODE
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...
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...
THE INTERNET
In yet another blow to internet giants, especially the likes of Google and Facebook, the EU has now approved tougher copyright rules, which would...
Youtube has thrown in some new numbers at us now, with respect to viewership in India and the overall market. In the Youtube Brandcast event that the...
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...
[UPDATE] More Facebook data found lying exposed on public servers
UPDATE [1:41 PM IST, April 4th, 2019]
Facebook has announced that it has removed all of the data that was lying exposed on Amazon servers.
Cultura...
Whatsapp launches a new tipline for Indian users to report misinformation during elections
Whatsapp is looking to go deeper in identifying fake news and is now relying on its strong India userbase to help it do that. The company on Tuesday...
Facebook removes 687 accounts, pages linked to Indian National Congress for ‘inauthentic behaviour’
In the first such major crackdown announced publicly by Facebook, the social media giant has removed 687 pages and accounts linked to India’s...
THIS IS OUR FUTURE
Stratolaunch, the company that was founded by late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, has finally hit an important milestone in its short company history. The company, which aims to take on the likes of SpaceX, Blue Origin among others, has finally...
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...
Tesla reverses closure of half its stores
Tesla has announced that the company has decided to reverse the closing all its retail stores in the US. They stated that only half of the originally...
NASA and SpaceX complete historic mission as Crew Dragon capsule splashes down in Atlantic Ocean
The SpaceX “Crew Dragon” has finally concluded its historic mission to the International Space Station (ISS) today (March 8). The SpaceX Dragon...