Electric News Startups Rivian raises a gigantic $2.5 billion as it races to launch an all electric line of pickup trucks Rivian, possibly the only other electric vehicle maker with the financial and… Upneet SinghJuly 10, 20202 minute read
Business News Startups Zomato revenues double to $394Mn, losses decline as ‘per order’ profits see uptick in India Zomato on Friday, published its Mid-COVD 19 performance report, and the numbers… Chinni SinghJuly 10, 20202 minute read
Apps News Whatsapp Business gets QR codes and a new way to share catalogs After quietly building a strong 50M MAU base of mostly small and… Chinni SinghJuly 9, 20202 minute read
Business Culture & Policy News Facebook pushes “Oversight Board” launch to late fall, amid disappointing meeting with Facebook ad ban leaders In a rather unsurprising turn of events, Facebook’s “efforts” to stop the… Upneet SinghJuly 8, 20202 minute read
News Startups Venture Capital Sequoia announces two new India, SE Asia focused funds worth $1.35 Billion Sequoia Limited Partners, a veteran in the Indian startup ecosystem, has announced… Upneet SinghJuly 7, 20203 minute read
Business News Startups Uber acquires Postmates for $2.65B as it strengthens Uber Eats The food delivery business is downright cruel, and punishes those who can’t… Upneet SinghJuly 6, 20203 minute read
Business News Airtel partners with Nokia to power India’s largest open cloud-based VoLTE network Airtel, the former champion of the Indian telecom market, and now, the… Upneet SinghJuly 6, 20202 minute read
Business News Venture Capital Jio Platforms gets $253M from Intel Capital Just when we thought there is a pause in Reliance Jio Platforms’… Staff@The Tech PortalJuly 3, 20202 minute read
Apps News Security Facebook accidentally allowed 5,000 app developers access data of inactive users way past its expiration date Facebook and privacy just don’t go together, as has been proven by… Upneet SinghJuly 3, 20202 minute read
Business Electric News Tesla blows past industry estimates with 90,650 vehicle deliveries in Q2’20 While COVID-19 continues to batter the global economy, Tesla proves yet again… Upneet SinghJuly 2, 20203 minute read
Apps News Facebook swaps one TikTok clone for another, shuts down Lasso ahead of Instagram Reels launch Facebook is changing horses just as the race was about to start,… Upneet SinghJuly 2, 20203 minute read
Apps News WhatsApp announces ‘Dark mode’ for Whatsapp Web, animated stickers, QR codes for contacts and more Whatsapp, as a part of some regular updates to keep the platform… Upneet SinghJuly 1, 20202 minute read
Apps Business News 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… Global Staff @ The Tech PortalJuly 1, 20202 minute read
News Science 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… Upneet SinghJune 30, 20202 minute read
Apps Culture & Policy News 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… Upneet SinghJune 29, 20202 minute read
Crypto Internet News 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… Upneet SinghJune 27, 20203 minute read
Internet News Startups 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… Staff@The Tech PortalJune 26, 20202 minute read
Business News SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son resigns from Alibaba board Within a month of Jack Ma’s resignation from the Softbank board, Masayoshi… Upneet SinghJune 25, 20202 minute read
Apps Internet News Brazil’s central bank orders Mastercard and Visa to halt money transfers through Whatsapp payments Whatsapp’s payment service, which officially debuted through a launch in Brazil, is… Chinni SinghJune 24, 20202 minute read
Code News WWDC 2020 WWDC 2020: Here’s iOS 14 with ‘App Clips’, new ‘App Library’, Widgets and more After a long wait, Apple has finally come out and announced the… Upneet SinghJune 22, 20204 minute read
Culture & Policy Internet News Trump’s tweet on fake news gets flagged for “Manipulated Media”, hours after Facebook removed his campaign ads Twitter and Donald Trump seem like an abusive couple, for neither can… Upneet SinghJune 19, 20202 minute read