Business News Startups Zomato IPO opens next week, priced at ₹72-76 per share Zomato, one of the biggest companies to emerge from India’s burgeoning startup… Upneet SinghJuly 8, 20212 minute read
Business Internet News PhonePe further widens gap with GPay, owns 46% market share of UPI in June UPI payments have been becoming increasingly popular in India over the past… Manasi VarmaJuly 7, 20212 minute read
Business News Startups PayU in talks to acquire BillDesk in what might be the second-largest Indian internet-based acquisition to date: Report One of the largest acquisitions in the internet-based solutions segment may be… Soumyadeep SarkarJuly 7, 20212 minute read
Business News Startups Swedish firm MTG acquires PlaySimple, operator of 9 word games, for $360Mn People have been stuck in their homes for over an year now,… Upneet SinghJuly 2, 20212 minute read
Business China News Didi Chuxing raises $4.4 billion in biggest Chinese IPO in the US since 2014 In April, we had reported that Didi Chuxing, Uber’s Chinese counterpart and… Soumyadeep SarkarJuly 1, 20212 minute read
Business Internet News Reliance Jio and NXP Semiconductors collaborate on 5G hardware for upcoming Jio Phones After joining forces with Google for the software side of its new… Soumyadeep SarkarJune 30, 20212 minute read
Business News Startups Sequoia Capital’s largest cohort to date for Surge includes 23 start-ups The fifth (and largest) cohort of venture capital firm Sequoia Capital India’s… Soumyadeep SarkarJune 30, 20214 minute read
Business News Zomato reportedly invests $120Mn in Grofers, valuation soars past $1Bn Both Zomato and Grofers have ridden through the tough times of 2020,… Soumyadeep SarkarJune 29, 20212 minute read
Business News Leading language-learning app Duolingo files for IPO With the onset of the pandemic, the shift to online education has… Soumyadeep SarkarJune 29, 20212 minute read
Business Culture & Policy News Facebook becomes a $1 Trillion company Like it or not, social media platforms have flourished like never before… Upneet SinghJune 29, 20212 minute read
Business News Etsy acquires Brazilian competitor El07 for $217Mn Etsy, the popular online marketplace focused around creative products, has acquired El07,… Upneet SinghJune 29, 20212 minute read
Business Cloud Computing Code News AWS acquires encrypted messaging service Wickr for an undisclosed sum Amazon Web Services (AWS) has acquired encrypted messaging service Wickr for an… Soumyadeep SarkarJune 26, 20212 minute read
Business News Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance clocks $73Bn in revenue, announces new energy business, Google partnership and more Reliance, India’s biggest conglomerate, touched never seen before heights over the past… Upneet SinghJune 24, 20212 minute read
Business News Startups Number of unicorn startups up by 43% this year, US leads with 154, India adds 11 To say that the startup culture around the world has flourished this… Soumyadeep SarkarJune 22, 20213 minute read
Business News Startups Unacademy unveils Graphy Creator grant worth ₹100 Cr to help teachers set up online schools on its platform With schools and colleges still closed in India (and a large part… Upneet SinghJune 22, 20212 minute read
Business News Startups Paytm seeks shareholder approval to sell $1.6Bn worth of shares in upcoming IPO Paytm, the digital payments platform that everyone in India is familiar with,… Manasi VarmaJune 18, 20212 minute read
Business News Startups Venture Capital Payments upstart BharatPe could get fresh capital boost at a $2.5Bn valuation: Report Investment and Capital Fund giant Tiger Global has been making many significant… Manasi VarmaJune 18, 20212 minute read
Apps Business News Spotify acquires podcast discovery platform Podz Spotify has become the “go-to” place for music for most people, and… Soumyadeep SarkarJune 18, 20212 minute read
Business News Startups Nazara to acquire a majority stake in PublishMe-Middle East’s biggest mobile game publishing agency The gaming industry has been booming over the past year, a phenomena… Upneet SinghJune 17, 20212 minute read
Business Culture & Policy News Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella to suceed John Thompson as chairman Hard work and perseverance yield rich rewards, and this has been proven… Soumyadeep SarkarJune 17, 20212 minute read
Business News OnePlus officially merges with OPPO, will continue to launch products independently It isn’t really a hidden fact, that OnePlus was always a part… Global Staff @ The Tech PortalJune 17, 20211 minute read