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Airbnb announces $1 billion debt+equity fundraise, to focus on ‘Experiences’ and long-term stays

While the hospitality industry takes a beating due to the ongoing coronavirus…
IBM

Paul Cormier to take over as President and CEO at Red Hat as Jim Whitehurst moves to IBM

IBM family is in for a lot of major changes, as Ginni…
Uber integrates metro ticketing via ONDC

After BigBasket, Uber will now help Flipkart in delivering essential items

Uber India has tied up with e-commerce giant Flipkart to help deliver…

YouTube acts against content linking coronavirus to 5G after attacks on 5G towers in the UK

YouTube will now remove or limit visibility of content featuring conspiracy theories…

India’s DRDO develops a portable sanitization chamber for medical personnel

India is at a crucial juncture in the fight against COVID-19. While…
Swiggy

Swiggy lands $43 Million as a part of Series I round from a group of Korean investors

Ever since India imposed a nationwide lockdown, e-commerce companies have found it…
Tesla

Tesla engineers show their ventilator progress so far through a Youtube video

True to his word, Elon Musk has started putting his engineering team…

Apple acquires AI speech recognition startup Voysis

Apple is making yet another acquisition, making it the second within this…

Zoom accepts wrongful routing of video calls through Chinese servers

Zoom video conferencing app has become the new ‘it’ thing in the…

Ecommerce companies tie up with retailers and online grocery platforms to ensure delivery of essential items

Internet companies that deal in mobility around non essential items, such as…
Twitter

Twitter suspends 20,000 accounts linked to Saudi, Serbian and Egyptian governments

Twitter has announced that it has removed 20,000 accounts from its platform…

NASA offers more details on its manned Moon mission

NASA has offered details about the Artemis mission; its on-going crewed spaceflight…

Google shares data on how people movement has changed in cities amid coronavirus pandemic

Tech Giant Google on Thursday released locational data for users in over…
Oyo

OYO invokes “force majeure” clause, ceases all payments to partner hotels: Report

After OYO raised concerns over declining business last week, asking its partner…

Facebook launches Messenger apps for Desktop and Mac

To tackle the influx of traffic and make it more convenient for…

India launches a COVID-19 tracker app called ‘Aarogya Setu’

After reports came out earlier that India was working on a “Coronavirus…

YouTube reportedly developing a Tik Tok rival called ‘Shorts’

Love it or hate it, there is no denying the popularity of…

India’s MyLab lands fresh investment to ramp up COVID-19 test kit production to 2 million units a week

COVID-19 cases have started to see an exponential rise in India, with…

Google to shut down local Q&A app Neighbourly in India

Google has announced that its hyper local social networking app- Neighbourly will…