Global News India’s competition watchdog orders inquiry into Apple over App Store commissions The year has been a long one, even more so for Big… Soumyadeep SarkarJanuary 1, 20222 minute read
Business News Startups Venture Capital GlobalBees raises over $110Mn to become India’s latest unicorn Even as the New Year is beckoning to us, the Indian startup… Soumyadeep SarkarDecember 29, 20212 minute read
Business China News China makes it tougher for companies from restricted sectors to list overseas Remember Didi, China’s answer to Uber, and its IPO earlier this year?… Soumyadeep SarkarDecember 27, 20212 minute read
Futurism News Space NASA launches the James Webb Space telescope, will look to answer questions on origins of our Universe This Christmas is going to be extra-special as a new chapter in… Soumyadeep SarkarDecember 24, 20212 minute read
Business News Space China’s crypto star Justin Sun is the mystery bidder who bid $28Mn to win a seat aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard Remember when someone paid an astounding $28 million for a seat aboard… Soumyadeep SarkarDecember 23, 20212 minute read
Business News Space Startups MapMyIndia sees strong market debut, shares soar 54% on opening day Amid the rather gloomy environment that Indian public markets have been experiencing… Staff@The Tech PortalDecember 21, 20212 minute read
Acquisitions Business News Oracle makes its biggest acquisition yet, acquires health records company Cerner for $28.3B In what is an addition to the long list of acquisitions made… Soumyadeep SarkarDecember 21, 20212 minute read
Business Internet News Reddit confidentially files for IPO Reddit — the front page of the internet as they call it… Global Staff @ The Tech PortalDecember 16, 20211 minute read
Business Culture & Policy Global News You can now buy Tesla merchandise with Dogecoin Elon Musk, Time’s Person of the Year 2021, has been an ardent… Soumyadeep SarkarDecember 15, 20212 minute read
News Startups Flipkart and Walmart pump in $145 million in agritech upstart Ninjacart For the third time, e-commerce behemoth Flipkart has invested in Ninjakart, the… Soumyadeep SarkarDecember 14, 20212 minute read
News Startups Venture Capital Edelweiss PE, others, pump $139Mn in Ola’s latest fundraise, valued at $7.3Bn Even as Ola is gearing up for its IPO (like many other… Soumyadeep SarkarDecember 9, 20212 minute read
Gadgetry Global News Apple’s 1st gen AR headset to come in 2022, 2nd gen to roll out two years later It seems AR is finally gaining traction inside Apple’s engineering cordon. After… Soumyadeep SarkarDecember 8, 20212 minute read
Business News Startups Used cars retail platform Spinny gets $283Mn in Series E from Abu Dhabi’s ADQ, Tiger Global The Indian startup sector has been tremendous successes this year, producing unicorns… Soumyadeep SarkarDecember 7, 20212 minute read
Business News Startups MapMyIndia’s IPO to open on December 9, price band set at ₹1000-1033 per equity share It will be an understatement to say that 2021 has been a… Soumyadeep SarkarDecember 7, 20212 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
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
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
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 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
News Startups Flipkart enters online pharmacy space with SastaSundar.com acquisition, announces ‘Flipkart Health+’ India’s highly lucrative but fiercely competitive online healthcare space will now see… Staff@The Tech PortalNovember 19, 20212 minute read
Business News Paytm makes an expected, muted public market debut at ₹1950, shares continue to slide 2021 has a been a year of reckoning for India’s startup ecosystem.… Staff@The Tech PortalNovember 18, 20211 minute read
