Culture & Policy Internet News Facebook extends ban on Trump’s FB and Instagram accounts ‘indefinitely and for at least next two weeks’ Even though Donald Trump has returned to Twitter after a brief 12… Global Staff @ The Tech PortalJanuary 8, 20212 minute read
Culture & Policy Internet News [Update: Restored] Trump accounts suspended on Facebook, Twitter amid Capitol rioting Update: Snapchat has moved to take action against President Trump as well,… Upneet SinghJanuary 7, 20212 minute read
News Startups Venture Capital B2B ecommerce unicorn ‘Udaan’ scores $280Mn in fresh round, plans pan-India expansion The mostly unregulated sector of mom and pop shops in India, or… Upneet SinghJanuary 6, 20212 minute read
News Startups Venture Capital Consumer electronics upstart ‘boAt’ gets $100Mn amid plans to shift manufacturing to India India has one of the fastest growing startup markets in the entire… Upneet SinghJanuary 6, 20213 minute read
Business News Startups Zomato financial numbers out ahead of planned IPO, losses widen even as revenue grows We are getting to know some fresh financial numbers from food delivery… Swastik BhattacharjeeJanuary 5, 20212 minute read
Futurism News Space SpaceX will try to “catch” the Super Heavy rocket instead of landing it like Falcon 9: Elon Musk The CEO and founder of SpaceX Elon Musk has announced a different… Nikhil MakwanaDecember 31, 20202 minute read
News Startups Venture Capital Indian startups clocked $9.3Bn in investment this year, down from $14.5Bn in 2019 Despite the coronavirus pandemic negatively effecting many sectors of the blooming Indian… Nikhil MakwanaDecember 28, 20202 minute read
Business Culture & Policy News China launches antitrust investigation against Jack Ma’s Alibaba Jack Ma’s troubles, for the criticism that he showered on China’s communist… Swastik BhattacharjeeDecember 24, 20202 minute read
News Startups Venture Capital Glance, the InMobi-owned smartphone lock screen app, raises $145Mn from Google, others Glance, the lock screen platform owned by adtech group InMobi, has announced… Swastik BhattacharjeeDecember 22, 20202 minute read
News Startups Venture Capital Dailyhunt raises over $100 million from Google, Microsoft and others, turns Unicorn Dailyhunt, the platform that primarily started as a vernacular news app, has… Swastik BhattacharjeeDecember 22, 20202 minute read
Business News Court rejects Future Group plea to restrain Amazon from going against Reliance deal Delhi High Court has dismissed a plea from Future Group, seeking to… Upneet SinghDecember 21, 20202 minute read
Gaming News PUBG Mobile becomes the top grossing mobile game of 2020 with $2.6bn in revenue despite India ban PUBG Mobile has generated the highest revenue among mobile games this year… Maaz AhmedDecember 16, 20202 minute read
Apps Business News Whatsapp partners with 4 of India’s top banks for a nation-wide Whatsapp Pay roll out WhatsApp’s much anticipated feature, WhatsApp Pay (or Payments), which went live in… Maaz AhmedDecember 16, 20203 minute read
Apps Internet News Gmail users report multiple errors amid global outage, now resolved On Tuesday, Google said that it has resolved a problem with Gmail,… Nikhil MakwanaDecember 16, 20202 minute read
Business Internet News Reddit acquires TikTok rival Dubsmash Internet’s favorite forum, Reddit, announced in a blog post on Sunday, that… Maaz AhmedDecember 14, 20202 minute read
Business Culture & Policy Internet News 46 States in the US and the FTC are suing Facebook for suppressing competition, call for dismantling the company In a rare show of a united front, 48 AGs from 46… Global Staff @ The Tech PortalDecember 10, 20202 minute read
News Carl Pei raises $7 million in funding for his new venture, starts hiring talent Carl Pei, the co-founder of OnePlus, has now raised $7 million in… Maaz AhmedDecember 9, 20202 minute read
Culture & Policy Internet News Jio to roll out 5G in the second half of 2021, says Mukesh Ambani Mukesh Ambani, the richest man in India and the CEO and Managing… Swastik BhattacharjeeDecember 8, 20202 minute read
News Space SpaceX delivers cargo to ISS during legendary 100th Falcon 9 launch On Sunday, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket took off from the Kennedy Space… Swastik BhattacharjeeDecember 7, 20202 minute read
Apps Business News PhonePe raises $700Mn in fresh round, becomes a separate business unit Flipkart, the Indian e-commerce giant, has announced on Thursday that it has… Swastik BhattacharjeeDecember 3, 20202 minute read
Business News Startups Salesforce acquires Slack for $ 27.7 billion Salesforce has announced that it has acquired the workplace messaging application Slack… Swastik BhattacharjeeDecember 2, 20202 minute read