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
Internet News Real-time animations, among other features going live on Reddit Reddit needs no introduction – the front page of the internet is… Soumyadeep SarkarDecember 2, 20212 minute read
News Startups CRED acquires Happay – a full-stack expense management platform for businesses As CRED slows down on its marketing-driven hype and looks for possible,… Staff@The Tech PortalDecember 1, 20212 minute read
News Startups Simpl gets $40Mn to expand its buy now pay later platform Amid the Fintech innovation boom that India has witnessed this past decade… Staff@The Tech PortalDecember 1, 20211 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
Apps Global Internet News Find out the winners of Google Play’s Best of 2021 With 2022 around the corner, the time has come to determine how… Soumyadeep SarkarNovember 30, 20212 minute read
Culture & Policy Global Internet News Jack Dorsey to step down as Twitter CEO, CTO Parag Agrawal to take over Twitter is having a change of guard once again as CEO Jack… 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
Culture & Policy Futurism News Indian govt asks public not to sign up for SpaceX Starlink, says it does not have license to offer internet services in India Starlink has been Elon Musk’s mission to provide high-speed, low-latency internet to… Soumyadeep SarkarNovember 27, 20212 minute read
News Startups Digital financial services firm Indifi raises ₹340 crore in equity and debt financing 2020 and 2021 have been opposites – while the previous year adversely… Soumyadeep SarkarNovember 26, 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
Futurism News Space NASA launches a “DART” at space to kick asteroid off course amid a planned planetary defense test If you have watched Mimi Leder’s film “Deep Impact,” where a manned… Soumyadeep SarkarNovember 25, 20212 minute read
Global Internet News Startups Podcasting platform Podimo gobbles up $78 million in Series B round The tastes of people are changing as more and more users are… Soumyadeep SarkarNovember 24, 20212 minute read
News Startups Venture Capital Blume Ventures announces first close at $105Mn for its fourth fund Blume Ventures, one of the most prominent and among the oldest homegrown… Staff@The Tech PortalNovember 24, 20212 minute read
Crypto Culture & Policy News New crypto law in India soon to ban all private cryptocurrencies, with a few ‘exceptions’ Cryptocurrency has had a contradictory journey in India – on one hand,… Soumyadeep SarkarNovember 23, 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
Apps Culture & Policy Internet News Instagram, Facebook Messenger will not get end-to-end encryption as a default, before 2023 If you use WhatsApp, then you are no stranger to end-to-end encryption.… Soumyadeep SarkarNovember 23, 20212 minute read
News Startups Tier-II focused test prep startup Toppersnotes rakes in $1Mn as it looks to scale It would be an understatement to say, that Education has changed in… Soumyadeep SarkarNovember 23, 20212 minute read
News Startups GetSetUp, a platform that provides niche learning courses for older adults, gets $10Mn in fresh fundraise To say that the startup sector in India has undergone a revolution… Soumyadeep SarkarNovember 22, 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
