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Global app revenues reach $50B in first half of 2020 as COVID-19 forced people to stay indoors

In line with that most had expected for the digital industry’s growth…
Facebook

Facebook agrees to review its hate speech controls after a prolific advertising boycott

Facebook has managed to piss off just about every single one of…
Abound raises $14M to expand remittances.

B Capital Group closes a new $820 million fund

B Capital Group, the second biggest thing Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin has…

Covaxin, India’s locally developed COVID-19 vaccine, gets DCGI approval for human trials

Ever since the landscape of the modern world was shaken by the…
Oracle

Oracle India launches a new data center in Hyderabad

Oracle has announced setting up of a brand new data centre in…

Amazon Prime Video gets ‘Watch Party’ to let you jointly stream content with family and friends

Amazon has announced a new “Watch Party” experience on its video streaming…

Ola will now let customers tip drivers through its app across all markets

Ola, on Tuesday, rolled out an ‘in-app tipping feature’ which as the…

Donald Trump gets temporarily banned on Twitch just as Reddit bans the r/The_Donald subreddit

It is pretty much a fact now, that Donald Trump and social…

Google to bring free listings directly to its main page, building on the “more free listings” initiative

Google has been veering away from paid listings, as was announced in…

Tiktok, Cam Scanner among 59 China-based apps banned in India due to data security issues

Amid rising anti China sentiment in the country, Indian government has decided…
didi

Didi to begin testing robotaxis in Shanghai, installs V2X kits on its vehicles

Didi, the most popular ride hailing platform in China, is planning to…

Telegram to pay $18.5 million in fines to SEC as its cryptocurrency service TON goes down

Telegram’s Pavel Durov’s plans of running his own cryptocurrency platform are officially…
Microsoft

Microsoft will close all its physical stores taking a $450 million hit

As the world of computing was taking shape, Microsoft emerged as one…

Amazon acquires autonomous driving startup Zoox

Amazon has acquired Zoox, a startup that is designing autonomous ride hailing…
Amazon

Amazon launches ‘Smart Stores’ in India to provide mom and pop stores with a digital storefront

In what looks like a move to counter Mukesh Ambani’s multi-billion ecommerce…

Now Verizon boycotts Facebook ads, announces suspension of ads on the platform

Verizon has announced that it will be suspending all advertisements on Facebook,…

Byju’s raises fresh capital from ‘Bond’, the VC fund co-founded by Mary Meeker

Byju’s, the unicorn edtech behemoth, that has continued to reel in external…
Google

Merchants in India can soon avail loans through Google Pay

Google announced yesterday, that it now plans to offer credit to millions…

Wirecard goes down with dues worth $4 billion

In the tech industry at large, companies are gravitated towards new technologies,…

Google will pay publishers for content that it licenses for a ‘new news experience’

For quite some time now, there have been debates around how Google…