Internet
Google to take on Uber with its expanded Waze ride-sharing service in San Francisco
There is already a crowded market of competitive carpooling services, but Google is still planning to jumpstart its own ride-sharing business, reports WSJ. After running a pilot program with a…
European Commission orders Apple to pay over $14.5 billion in outstanding illegal taxes to Ireland
After spending a good two years investigating Apple’s tax evasion in Ireland, the European Commission(EC) has today released a statement concluding that Ireland granted illegal tax benefits to…
Taiwanese chipmaker MediaTek leads Paytm’s $300 Mn funding round, valuation pegged at over $4.8 Bn
As reported yesterday, Paytm parent One97 Communications is looking to raise a massive $350 million at a valuation, which is double as compared to the previous fund raise. And…
LivSpace secures about $15 Million from existing investors, to expand team and setup offline experience centers
Online home decor platform, LivSpace has today announced that it has minted a fresh $15 million(about Rs. 100 crore) in its third round of funding. The investment was…
Facebook to let go off human editors and automate ‘Trending Topics’
Facebook has been caught amid a lot of controversy for suppressing stories within ‘Trending Topics’ feature but now to do some damage control, it is introducing some much-needed…
MobiKwik secures a $40 Million round from South Africa-based mobile payment firm Net1
In fresh funding news land, Snapdeal isn’t the lone shark to receive a hefty sum of money today. Gurgaon-based digital wallet platform MobiKwik has received a fresh $40…
Flipkart reshuffles top-tier management, hands over bigger roles to attain clearer accountability
Faced with a series of valuation markdowns, management exodus and scarcity of funds, Flipkart has announced yet another round of top-tier management changes. It has decided to hand…
Whatsapp will now share user data with Facebook, but you can still opt-out
Ever since its acquisition by Facebook in 2014, users and analysts both have worried what might ultimately become, of the widely wildly popular IM service WhatsApp. The company has since then operated…
Google to soon start punishing mobile websites that show annoying interstitials, pop-up ads
Updating its search policies, Google today announced two minor changes that its implementing to the search results on mobile. Google is removing the ‘mobile friendly’ tag from web search…
Alibaba poaches Flipkart’s HR Director Priya Cherian to head talent acquisition in India
In what can be seen as a win for Alibaba and another loss for Flipkart, Director of Human Resources, Priya Cherian has made a switch from the latter to…
Flipkart has reportedly lost its top spot to Amazon in terms of sales in July’16
And the nightmares that India’s first-ever unicorn wished would never come to life are now coming true and might leave scars unmendable by any medicine. According to a LiveMint report,…
Facebook stock prices projected to surge over 20% on ad revenue growth
Following suit to its impressive earnings in yet another quarter, reports now suggest that Facebook stock has the potential to rise over 20 per cent the following year(i.e 2018).…
Facebook intros a new teen-centric video-based social network called ‘LifeStage’
Facebook was once hip and cool amongst teenagers, but opening it up to all led to more intrusion by nosy relatives than friendly conversations. Also, its thunder was…
Get ready for a physical YouTube store in London!
Generating revenue out of videos on online platforms has always been a dream for many. While some are doing great in this industry, others are not. For these…
Apple sets Jan’17 deadline to enforce HTTPS connections for iOS apps by default
Yesterday at the annual Worldwide Developer Conference, Apple announced an important security deadline for all apps on the App Store to start using HTTPS as the default protocol for connecting…
WWDC’16 Liveblog: Join us for Apple’s Keynote Event tonight at 10:30 P.M IST
Apple’s annual developer extravaganza — WWDC’16 — kicks off tonight at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco and we’re here to bring to you all the updates…
China’s Internet Crackdown Continues As Astrill VPN Gets Banned
China is continuing to lay new bricks onto its great wall against the internet as it furthers to hold strong ground on its censorship ideology. The country has…
