Futurism News Space History made! NASA flies Ingenuity helicopter on Martian surface for the first time A few centuries ago, taking flight was nothing but a dream for… Soumyadeep SarkarApril 19, 20213 minute read
News Startups Venture Capital Razorpay announces $160Mn fundraise from GIC, Sequoia and others, valuation tops $3 Billion India’s fledgling startup culture is blooming, with new unicorns popping up so… Manasi VarmaApril 19, 20213 minute read
Culture & Policy News Space SpaceX grabs $2.9Bn moon lander deal with NASA; Musk says, “NASA Rocks!” Sending people to the moon for the first time since 1972. That’s… Manasi VarmaApril 17, 20213 minute read
Business News Flipkart acquires Cleartrip in signs of a big scale-up in travel industry Flipkart is looking to expand its services as it continues to compete… Manasi VarmaApril 15, 20213 minute read
News Space Blue Origin successfully launches and lands New Shephard rocket in crucial test flight for future manned missions SpaceX currently leads the private space sector with an iron fist, especially… Upneet SinghApril 15, 20212 minute read
Gadgetry News Microsoft unveils Surface Laptop 4 in Intel & AMD Ryzen configs, shipping starts April 15 With work-from-home catching on, demand for laptops and notebooks has risen like… Soumyadeep SarkarApril 13, 20212 minute read
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
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 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
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
News Startups Venture Capital Groww ‘grows’ to a unicorn as it raises $83Mn from Sequoia, YC among others Indians and strategic investments aren’t really warm with each other. Even though… Upneet SinghApril 7, 20212 minute read
News Startups Venture Capital PharmEasy parent API Holdings latest to enter India’s unicorn club with valuation of $1.5 billion We are only halfway through the week and already India’s blooming startup… Soumyadeep SarkarApril 7, 20213 minute read
News Startups Venture Capital Fintech startup CRED’s valuation soars to $2.2 billion with a fresh $215 million fundraise Looks like investors are not worried, at least yet, of the balance… Soumyadeep SarkarApril 6, 20213 minute read
Business News Startups Indian gaming upstart Nazara lists at nearly 81% premium over issue price, IPO subscribed 176 times by investors This news today is perhaps the best possible signal one can get… Soumyadeep SarkarMarch 30, 20212 minute read
Business Culture & Policy News Chinese tech giants’ stocks tank amidst crackdown at home and looming threat of US delisting The relationship between the United States and China has not been quite… Soumyadeep SarkarMarch 25, 20213 minute read
Culture & Policy Internet News India’s competition watchdog orders antitrust probe against WhatsApp for its updated Privacy Policy WhatsApp has been valiantly defending its privacy policy all over the world… Staff@The Tech PortalMarch 24, 20212 minute read
Apps Internet News [Update: Restored] WhatsApp, Instagram suffer outage for users across the globe [Update] Thankfully, the outage was short-lived and both services have now been… Upneet SinghMarch 20, 20211 minute read
Business News Coinbase set to sell 114.9 million shares in direct listing IPO Unless you have been living under a rock, you have probably witnessed… Staff@The Tech PortalMarch 17, 20212 minute read
Business Culture & Policy News Chinese govt. reportedly asks Alibaba to divest stakes in media assets Alibaba, the biggest company in China and the only thing close to… Upneet SinghMarch 16, 20212 minute read