Business News Venture Capital Epic Games raises $1Bn at $28.7Bn valuation Epic Games, the maker of the popular battle royale game Fortnite, relies… Upneet SinghApril 13, 20212 minute read
Internet News Startups Digital supply chain giant Bizongo suffers massive data breach, sensitive customer info exposed: Report Data theft is an increasingly persistent problem these days, and with data’s… Soumyadeep SarkarApril 13, 20213 minute read
Business News Startups Merchant commerce unicorn Pine Labs acquires fintech platform Fave for $45 million The digital payments market received an unprecedented boost in 2020 when the… Soumyadeep SarkarApril 13, 20213 minute read
News Startups Venture Capital E-commerce platform DealShare raises $100 million in Tiger Global-led funding: Report 2021 is set to be a landmark year for the Indian start-up… Soumyadeep SarkarApril 13, 20213 minute read
Business News Microsoft acquires healthcare and speech to text software giant Nuance for $19.7Bn Microsoft has announced that it is acquiring speech to text software giant… Upneet SinghApril 12, 20213 minute read
Business Gadgets News PC market grows by 55% year on year in Q1 2021, 84.7 million units shipped: Canalys Last year was quite out of the blue for the PC industry.… Upneet SinghApril 12, 20213 minute read
Business News Flipkart joins hands with Adani Group to set up new data center, strengthen supply chain infrastructure Home-grown e-commerce platform Flipkart, one of India’s leading online retailers, is one… Soumyadeep SarkarApril 12, 20213 minute read
Business News Startups Fashion e-retailer Nykaa acquires online jewelry brand Pipa Bella, plans to expand contemporary jewellery catalogue The fashion industry is a tough nut to crack, and the titans… Soumyadeep SarkarApril 12, 20212 minute read
Internet News India’s 2nd largest stock broker, Upstox is reportedly the latest victim of massive data breach As the world goes online, and hackers continue to farm user data… Soumyadeep SarkarApril 12, 20213 minute read
Futurism News Space Ingenuity flight delayed by NASA as potential issue surfaces, rescheduled to April 14 NASA and its exploits on Mars are reaching a critical point, as… Upneet SinghApril 12, 20212 minute read
Gadgetry News Pixel 5a 5G not cancelled, will launch soon: Google refutes cancellation rumors What do you do when you’re developing something new, but even before… Manasi VarmaApril 10, 20213 minute read
Business China Global Internet News China’s Didi Chuxing files confidentially for US IPO, valuation could range between $70-$100B At a time when the Chinese government is cracking down on its… Soumyadeep SarkarApril 10, 20212 minute read
China Culture & Policy News China presses further on Alibaba, slaps $2.78 Bn in fines for violating anti-trust rules In a two-way signal (we’ll talk about that in a bit) to… Soumyadeep SarkarApril 10, 20213 minute read
Internet News Security Over 500Mn LinkedIn users fall victim to massive data scrapping, hacker puts data on sale While the security offered by social networking sites has always been questionable,… Manasi VarmaApril 9, 20213 minute read
Culture & Policy Internet News People are now spending over four hours daily on apps: App Annie report If there’s one thing that the pandemic has done, it has been… Manasi VarmaApril 9, 20213 minute read
News Startups Venture Capital Twiter-backed ShareChat gulps in $502 Mn from Tiger Global, Lightspeed and others Home-grown social media app ShareChat entered the growing and mythical ‘unicorn’ family… Soumyadeep SarkarApril 9, 20212 minute read
Internet News Facebook back up after brief outage Earlier today, users across the globe started reporting issues with Facebook, with… Global Staff @ The Tech PortalApril 9, 20211 minute read
Business Internet News Prosus sold 2% of Tencent stock in largest block trade deal since 2018, nets $14.6Bn: Report Amsterdam-based Prosus, the international internet division arm of Naspers, pocketed an amount… Soumyadeep SarkarApril 8, 20212 minute read
Internet News Twitter negotiated potential Clubhouse acquisition for $4 billion: Report Twitter has acquired several start-ups over the years, including newsletter platform Revue,… Soumyadeep SarkarApril 8, 20212 minute read
Code Internet News Google I/O starts May 18th, completely virtual and free for all Last year, as many companies grappled to remain alive and carry out… Manasi VarmaApril 8, 20212 minute read
Futurism News Space SpaceX keeps up with rapid Starlink launch pace, sends another 60 satellites Flying Elon Musk’s SpaceX, once again launched a batch of 60 Starlink satellites… Manasi VarmaApril 8, 20212 minute read
