Apps Internet WhatsApp Beta sees major new upgrades including auto delete messages, universal low data mode & call waiting Whatsapp is continuing with more feature showcases for its Beta users. Apart… Upneet SinghDecember 29, 20192 minute read
Internet News Wikimedia Foundation is ‘deeply concerned’ about India’s new intermediary liability laws Wikimedia, the parent company of the world’s biggest online encyclopedia has shown… Upneet SinghDecember 27, 20192 minute read
Futurism Internet Russia has reportedly started working on its own Internet Internet is a beautiful thing. In fact, it’s so beautiful that everyone… Upneet SinghDecember 27, 20192 minute read
Internet Twitter Twitter bug allowed to match 17 million phone numbers with accounts Looks like this year isn’t ending without yet another data leak story.… Jeet SutharDecember 25, 20192 minute read
Business Founder Travis Kalanick to leave Uber’s board Travis Kalanick, who is the founder and former CEO of Uber which… Jeet SutharDecember 24, 20192 minute read
Business China E-commerce China’s JD.Com’s logistic unit taps banking partners for $10 billion Hong Kong IPO JD.com is the second largest Chinese E-commerce company after Alibaba. And with… Upneet SinghDecember 24, 20192 minute read
Startups UPI-based payments platform BharatPe reports $3.2M in FY19 losses with little revenue Highlighting the rather unsuccessful business model that UPI is, online payments platform… Jeet SutharDecember 24, 20192 minute read
Business Electric Tesla rival EV maker Rivian bags another $1.3 billion for its electric pickups and SUVs Rivian, an out of the box startup that aims to bring all… Upneet SinghDecember 24, 20192 minute read
Business Global Startups Japanese banks have reportedly declined $3B lending to SoftBank for its mega WeWork bailout SoftBank has reportedly hit a roadblock on its way to provide liquidity… Upneet SinghDecember 23, 20192 minute read
Google fined $166M by French competition regulator for unclear advertisement rules In the first major amid possibly many such fines coming Google’s way,… Upneet SinghDecember 21, 20192 minute read
Internet Security Facebook updates user privacy settings, numbers will no longer be used for friends suggestions Amid a long drawn controversy over how facebook uses your phone number… Upneet SinghDecember 20, 20192 minute read
E-commerce Startups Lenskart scores $231M in a Series G round led by Softbank Vision Fund 2 at a $1.5B valuation India’s Lenskart, an online retailer of spectacles, sunglasses and literally all things… Staff@The Tech PortalDecember 20, 20192 minute read
Facebook Gadgetry Facebook is reportedly developing its own OS to power company’s hardware products The excessively dynamic nature of tech ensures that most companies have to… Jeet SutharDecember 20, 20192 minute read
Business Culture & Policy Startups OYO to reportedly lay off 2000 employees by February 2020 OYO, the multi-billion dollar Indian hotel aggregator upstart, may finally be showing… Upneet SinghDecember 19, 20192 minute read
Culture & Policy Uber agrees to pay $4.4 million for settling federal sexual harassment probe Uber is settling a charge made against the company in 2017 from… Jeet SutharDecember 19, 20192 minute read
Futurism Space Europe’s space agency launches a dedicated satellite to study exoplanets While the likes of SpaceX, NASA and India’s ISRO are generally the… Upneet SinghDecember 18, 20192 minute read
Business Startups WeWork fetches mega $1.75B financing deal from Goldman Sachs Goldman Sachs has pledged to bail out WeWork by introducing a line… Upneet SinghDecember 18, 20192 minute read
Futurism Space SpaceX successfully launches yet another Falcon rocket, recovers booster but misses on fairing In a show of consistency that SpaceX has finally come achieve, Elon… Staff@The Tech PortalDecember 17, 20192 minute read
Culture & Policy Internet Netflix clocks $1 billion in revenue from Asia Pacific, in nine months of 2019 Netflix has asserted it’s dominance as the leading streaming platform around the… Upneet SinghDecember 17, 20192 minute read
Business Cloud Computing Intel is acquiring Israel-based AI chipmaker Habana Labs for $2 Billion Intel is continuing with its massive tech acquisition spree. The American chipmaker… Global Staff @ The Tech PortalDecember 17, 20192 minute read
Business India’s EaseMyTrip files papers with SEBI for ₹510 crore IPO Online travel company EaseMyTrip has filed draft papers with SEBO to float… Jeet SutharDecember 16, 20191 minute read
