Acquisitions Business Global News Startups Math-focused Austrian edtech, GeoGebra becomes Byju’s tenth acquisition this year In the past year and half or so, the edtech sector has… Soumyadeep SarkarDecember 8, 20212 minute read
Business News Startups PlanetSpark, a platform that helps evolve communication skills for K-12 students, gets $13.5Mn in Series B With witnessing a rather forced but transformative change in the way it… Soumyadeep SarkarDecember 7, 20212 minute read
Business News Startups Used cars retail platform Spinny gets $283Mn in Series E from Abu Dhabi’s ADQ, Tiger Global The Indian startup sector has been tremendous successes this year, producing unicorns… Soumyadeep SarkarDecember 7, 20212 minute read
Business News Startups MapMyIndia’s IPO to open on December 9, price band set at ₹1000-1033 per equity share It will be an understatement to say that 2021 has been a… Soumyadeep SarkarDecember 7, 20212 minute read
Business Should Canada be entering a regulated gambling market? Canada is starting to make strides within the iGaming industry as the… Global Staff @ The Tech PortalDecember 6, 20212 minute read
Business News Tumultous week sees steep fall in U.S. tech stocks Last one has been a long week for Wall Street and companies,… Soumyadeep SarkarDecember 6, 20212 minute read
Business Culture & Policy Facebook Global Internet News Facebook-parent Meta launches initiatives to protect women users across its platforms The internet continues to be an unsafe place, especially increasingly for women.… Soumyadeep SarkarDecember 4, 20212 minute read
Business China News China’s Uber rival Didi Chuxing to delist from the US While 2021 has been a friend of Indian startups (resulting in a… Soumyadeep SarkarDecember 3, 20212 minute read
Business Global News Amazon’s Marketplace is its most profitable segment, clocking in over $120Bn built on seller fees: Report Amazon’s policies continue to face scrutiny, as a recent report showed that… Soumyadeep SarkarDecember 2, 20212 minute read
Business Global News Amazon, Apple fined $225Mn by Italy’s antitrust regulator Italy’s antitrust authority has fined both Apple and Amazon for a total… Soumyadeep SarkarDecember 2, 20212 minute read
Business Culture & Policy News UK competition regulator orders Facebook parent ‘Meta’ to sell Giphy It seems that the matter of the acquisition of Giphy by Meta… Soumyadeep SarkarNovember 30, 20212 minute read
Acquisitions Business Global News Edtech leader upGrad expands beyond domestic borders, acquires Australia’s Global Study Partners Education has undergone a revolution over the past one-and-a-half year, and while… Soumyadeep SarkarNovember 29, 20212 minute read
Business News Startups Fresh $200M fundraise catapults fintech ‘Slice’ to unicorn status Unicorns in India have sprung up like crazy in the past 11… Soumyadeep SarkarNovember 29, 20212 minute read
Business News B2B e-commerce upstart Udaan to now enter consumer-focused grocery business With the changing times, companies have resorted to stepping out of their… Soumyadeep SarkarNovember 25, 20212 minute read
Business Internet News Netflix is acquiring Scanline VFX, the German visual effects studio behind ‘Stranger Things’, ‘GOT’ among others Netflix wants to push the pedal on visual content. And while its… Global Staff @ The Tech PortalNovember 23, 20212 minute read
Business News Paytm says it clocked $11.2Bn in Oct’21 “GMV”, but that isn’t arresting its share price slide Paytm, the digital payments giant that had a forgettable public market debut… Deepanshu KhandelwalandSoumyadeep SarkarNovember 22, 20212 minute read
Business Crypto News Fintech startup Defy snaps up $5.5Mn to create India’s first social crypto exchange platform 2021 has been kind to the startup sector in India, clocking many… Soumyadeep SarkarNovember 18, 20212 minute read
Business Global News Grammarly raises a staggering $200Mn in fresh fundraise Grammarly, the popular writing correction platform that has literally become a writer-household… Soumyadeep SarkarNovember 18, 20212 minute read
Business Bitsgap Releases Scalper Bot for High-Frequency Crypto Trading on KuCoin On Nov. 15, Bitsgap, a leading provider of automated solutions for crypto… Global Staff @ The Tech PortalNovember 18, 20213 minute read
Business News Paytm makes an expected, muted public market debut at ₹1950, shares continue to slide 2021 has a been a year of reckoning for India’s startup ecosystem.… Staff@The Tech PortalNovember 18, 20211 minute read
Business News Startups Venture Capital Better Capital raises $15.28 million for its maiden fund 2021 has become the golden year for the startup ecosystem in the… Soumyadeep SarkarNovember 17, 20212 minute read
