Business Culture & Policy “Doing no great favour to India”, Trade minister Piyush Goyal on Jeff Bezos’ $1B India commitment While the media was going Gaga over Jeff Bezos’ kite flying, his… Staff@The Tech PortalJanuary 16, 20202 minute read
Business India to offer subsidised loans, specialised industrial clusters, infra support to attract foreign mobile component makers India’s electronics exports have been touching record highs every year since 2014.… Staff@The Tech PortalJanuary 15, 20202 minute read
Business E-commerce India investigates anti-competitive practices by Amazon and Flipkart Competition Commission of India (CCI), which is India’s anti-trust body, has highlighted… Jeet SutharJanuary 14, 20202 minute read
Internet News GitHub, Mozilla, and Cloudflare appeal India to be transparent about content policing plans In a letter written to the Indian government, GitHub, Mozilla, and CloudFlare… Jeet SutharJanuary 7, 20202 minute read
Internet TikTok releases its first transparency report; highest requests came from India In a move that highlights growing tensions over TikTok’s parent firm ByteDance,… Jeet SutharJanuary 2, 20202 minute read
Indian government will give 5G spectrum for trials to all players, including Huawei 5G is considered, arguably, the next-big-thing in tech. It is expected to… Jeet SutharDecember 30, 20192 minute read
Startups Indian startups raised $14.5 billion funding in the year 2019 Indian startups ecosystem is one of the largest in the world. In… Jeet SutharDecember 28, 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
Acquisitions Business Uber to sell India business of UberEats to Zomato: Report Expanding its business from just cab-hailing to food delivery, Uber launched the… Jeet SutharDecember 16, 20192 minute read
Apps Internet Youtube Music outperforms Gaana, JioSaavn, Spotify and others in India : Report Amid India’s intensifying media streaming wars, Youtube’s paid music app ‘Youtube Music’… Staff@The Tech PortalDecember 13, 20192 minute read
Internet Netflix is testing cheaper yearly subscription plan in India Netflix is beefing up its India offerings a notch up, with plans… Jeet SutharDecember 12, 20192 minute read
Business Internet Xiaomi Xiaomi re-launches its Mi Credit personal lending service in India Xiaomi, which is currently dominating the smartphone market in India, seems to… Jeet SutharDecember 3, 20192 minute read
Culture & Policy Indian Government bans production and import of e-cigarette India has joined the rising group of governments who have now completely… Tamaghno ChaudhuriSeptember 18, 20193 minute read
E-commerce Internet Amazon’s big retail move in India : Acquires 49% in Indian retail giant Future Group’s parent On Thursday, Amazon made a much anticipated move to tap into the… Shreyes MadgaonkarAugust 23, 20191 minute read
Futurism Space Chandrayaan-2 now into moon’s orbit as ISRO successfully completes Lunar Orbit Insertion India’s ISRO has now inched even closer towards making history, and towards… Staff@The Tech PortalAugust 20, 20191 minute read
Culture & Policy India could soften stand on data localisation, new Data Protection Bill suggests only “critical” data needs local storage The Indian government will be softening the Data Protection Bill which proposed… Shreyes MadgaonkarJuly 24, 20192 minute read
Crypto India’s Inter-ministerial Committee proposes ban on cryptocurrencies within the country What has been a speculation for quite some time, has now been… Shreyes MadgaonkarJuly 23, 20192 minute read
Business Startups eBay invests around $150 million in Paytm Mall acquiring over 5% stake in the e-commerce entity Twin sets of big news coming in from eBay. While the company… Shreyes MadgaonkarJuly 18, 20192 minute read
Startups Rivigo raises $65 Mn in Series E led by Warburg Pincus and SAIF Partners Rivigo has been successful in raising $65 Mn (~ Rs 445 crore)… Vinol TauroJuly 11, 20192 minute read
Apps Google Maps now offers discounts on restaurant bookings for Indian users Google is getting closer to its ‘for everything, there’s Google’ kind of… Shreyes MadgaonkarJuly 11, 20192 minute read
Startups Startups who have filed declarations will face no scrutiny under ‘Angel Tax’, says India’s FM Angel tax, under Section 56(2)(viib) of the Income Tax act, has spooked… Shreyes MadgaonkarJuly 5, 20192 minute read
