Culture & Policy Internet News Byju’s and NITI Aayog join forces to provide free access to learning resources across 112 districts Byju’s has evolved into the most valued edtech start-up in the world,… Soumyadeep SarkarSeptember 17, 20212 minute read
Business News Startups Indian govt. looking to fund ideas for accelerating digital payments adoption in semi-urban and rural India While technology has improved and advanced as the years have passed, much… Soumyadeep SarkarSeptember 17, 20212 minute read
Business News Ola Electric sells electric scooters worth more than ₹600 crore in one day, 4 scooters sold every second India has one of the biggest 2 wheeler automobile industry in the… Upneet SinghSeptember 16, 20212 minute read
Business News Startups Byju’s acquires coding platform ‘Tynker’, its ninth acquisition of the year Byju’s has had a busy year, and even though it has already… Soumyadeep SarkarSeptember 16, 20212 minute read
News Startups Venture Capital Payments provider Pine Labs raises additional $100 million ahead of its IPO Barely months after the closure of a $600 million investment round, the… Soumyadeep SarkarSeptember 16, 20212 minute read
Culture & Policy News Space Spacex’s Inspiration4 takes to space, carrying first-ever all civilian crew Conquering space, the final frontier, has been humanity’s dream for a long… Soumyadeep SarkarSeptember 16, 20212 minute read
News Startups Venture Capital Blue collar jobs platform ‘apna’ turns unicorn in $100Mn Series C fundraise, global expansion in sight Indian startup ecosystem’s red hot unicorn streak continues to march ahead, and… Staff@The Tech PortalSeptember 16, 20212 minute read
News Startups Venture Capital Groww looking to attain a $3Bn valuation with new $25 Mn fundraise: Report India, a country that has been quite closed up to investing, has… Soumyadeep SarkarSeptember 15, 20212 minute read
Business News Caller identification service Truecaller looking to raise $116Mn in Stockholm IPO TrueCaller, the Swedish firm that counts India as its biggest market and… Upneet SinghSeptember 15, 20212 minute read
Business News Startups E-sports and gaming app MPL becomes 2nd Indian e-gaming unicorn in fresh fundraise Over the last year, gaming has become bigger than ever, thanks to… Soumyadeep SarkarSeptember 15, 20213 minute read
Culture & Policy News Space NASA awards $146Mn in contracts to SpaceX, Blue Origin, and others for lander concepts of Artemis missions Blue Origin and SpaceX have locked horns ever since NASA had awarded… Soumyadeep SarkarSeptember 15, 20212 minute read
Gadgets Mobile News Apple launches the iPhone 13 lineup, with a smaller notch and higher refresh rate for Pro Models September is here, and for Apple fans, that means just one thing… Soumyadeep SarkarSeptember 15, 20214 minute read
Gadgets News Apple announces Watch Series 7, along with changes to its Fitness+ service iPhone 13 stole the California streaming event by Apple, as one would… Upneet SinghSeptember 15, 20212 minute read
Gadgets News Apple unveils new iPad and iPad Mini models, adding to its already dominating lineup of tablets Well, this is unexpected. If you, like myself, have been searching for… Upneet SinghSeptember 14, 20212 minute read
Gadgets News Xiaomi announces new Smart Glasses, can make calls, take photos, translate text, and much more The wearables sector has been growing at an unprecedented rate for quite… Soumyadeep SarkarSeptember 14, 20212 minute read
Business Culture & Policy News India and Singapore join forces to link their fast payments systems UPI and PayNow for instant transfers UPI has revolutionized the payments industry in India and has enabled people… Soumyadeep SarkarSeptember 14, 20212 minute read
News Space SpaceX deploys 51 Starlink satellites on record 10th flight of Falcon 9 rocket Elon Musk and SpaceX have been betting heavy on the Starlink constellation,… Soumyadeep SarkarSeptember 14, 20212 minute read
Business News Intuit to acquire popular customer engagement and marketing platform ‘MailChimp’ for $12Bn Global tech firm Intuit has announced that it will acquire customer engagement… Upneet SinghSeptember 14, 20212 minute read
Business News Startups SaaS major Freshworks aims for a $9Bn valuation in US IPO Freshworks is the latest name to make its way to the ‘soon… Soumyadeep SarkarSeptember 13, 20212 minute read
News Startups Venture Capital Jungle Ventures raises $225 million in the first close of its fourth fund, focus on India, SE Asia Despite pandemic’s rather devastating impact on several facets of the global economy,… Soumyadeep SarkarSeptember 13, 20212 minute read
Apps Internet News WhatsApp to finally add encryption to chat backups in cloud WhatsApp has had end to end encryption for the better part of… Upneet SinghSeptember 11, 20212 minute read