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Angry Birds maker Rovio clocks record rise in profits, announces new game ‘Small Town Murders’

Rovio Entertainment, maker of the popular “angry-birds” mobile game series, has recorded…

Reliance JioMart goes live on Whatsapp

Reliance industries’ latest venture to expand into the retail market, JioMart, has…

Vivo displaces Samsung as India’s 2nd largest smartphone maker by shipments, Xiaomi on top

The smartphone market in India performed exceptionally well in Q1 2020, despite…

AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson retires, current COO John Stankey to take over

AT&T is all set to welcome a new CEO in John Stankey,…
Google

Google plans to slash marketing budget by half, impose hiring freeze

COVID-19 is turning into a massive black hole that is gulping in…

Gojek has acquired Indonesian POS and payment services startup Moka in a $130M deal: Bloomberg

Fresh off from an industry-defying $1.2 Billion fundraise, Indonesia’s most valuable startup…

Snapchat parent Snap Inc. reports better than expected Q1’20 revenue and user growth, does not provide Q2’20 guidance

Snap Inc. on Tuesday reported the quarterly revenue and user base growth…
Netflix

Lockdowns help Netflix record 16 million new subscribers in Q1’20, reports lower-than-expected EPS

Streaming giant Netflix has released this year’s first quarterly earnings and has…
Loon

Alphabet owned Loon deploys first commercial internet balloons in Kenya

After what has been years of delay, Google’s Loon project seems to…

Facebook invests $5.7 Billion in Reliance Jio

In a deal that has been under media highlight for quite some…
Uber integrates metro ticketing via ONDC

Uber lands approval to be official business vendor for US federal agencies

Amid plummeting demand for ride-hailing services, Uber has landed a solid piece…

Apple expands App Store, iCloud, and Apple Music to dozens of international markets

Apple has announced the expansion of its services business to dozens of…

Uber commences limited, ‘essential’ services in five Indian cities

Uber announced yesterday, that it will restart limited service in five Indian…

India withdraws permission to ecommerce companies for delivering non-essential goods during coronavirus lockdown

In a move that could act as a body blow to some…

Cognizant falls victim to the notorious maze ransomware attack

IT solutions provider Cognizant is the latest victim of the notorious maze…

India’s new FDI policy requires govt. approval for all Chinese investment in Indian companies, including startups

In a move that is aimed at restricting “opportunistic investments” from Chinese…

Google to slow down hiring in 2020 as it looks to realign spending to “fewer strategic areas”

COVID-19 is turning into a massive black hole that is gulping in…

Facebook and India’s Reliance Industries to jointly build a new WeChat-like ‘super-app’: Report

An app along the lines of China’s WeChat may be imminent in…
Paytm logo on a tent roof

Paytm subsidiaries could get listed soon, parent company IPO still far, says founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma

Paytm, unarguably, is one of those early Indian startups, which paved the…
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Amazon to hire 75,000 more workers to meet increased demand due to coronavirus

As consumers rush to online retailers to get most of the stuff…