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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…
didi

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…

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…
LinkedIn

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,…
ShareChat Jeet11

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…
Groww

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…

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…
CRED

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…

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…
US lifts China chip design software ban

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…
India bans all online money games

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…
WhatsApp

[Update: Restored] WhatsApp, Instagram suffer outage for users across the globe

[Update] Thankfully, the outage was short-lived and both services have now been…
Coinbase

Coinbase set to sell 114.9 million shares in direct listing IPO

Unless you have been living under a rock, you have probably witnessed…

Chinese govt. reportedly asks Alibaba to divest stakes in media assets

Alibaba, the biggest company in China and the only thing close to…
Google guilty of digital ad monopolization

$5B lawsuit against Google on Chrome’s incognito mode to continue as judge denies motion to dismiss

Google, much like every other major tech giant in the world, has…
Microsoft

Microsoft races to stop mass cyber attack that caused damage to millions worldwide

The mass cyber-attacks on Microsoft Corp.’s widely used business email software, Exchange,…
Huawei

Huawei may be banned in India amid security concerns: Reuters

India and China have seen relations worsen after the Galwan Valley dispute…

India will take a “calibrated” approach to cryptocurrencies, govt. “open to experimentation”: FM Nirmala Sitharaman

Cryptocurrency holders in India have been wary of investing more of their…

Blume Ventures closes secondary vehicle fund with Avendus Capital, raises ₹350 crore

Early-stage venture capital firm Blume Ventures announced on Friday that it has…
Flipkart

Flipkart to roll out over 25,000 electric vehicles for its delivery fleet by 2030

E-commerce firm Flipkart announced on Wednesday that it plans to deploy more…
Reddit suffers outage, then recovers

Reddit adds another $116 million to its Series E round

Two weeks after Reddit had announced a Series E funding round of…