Archive for category: Consumer Tech

FarEye, the logistics upstart from India which most ecommerce companies depend upon for their supply chain tech, has raised...

Uber and Lyft have been fighting for their lives over a ruling made by a Californian court, forcing the...

Just a few days away from its official announcement, Google announced some new features for its latest Android iteration-...

Blackberry in the smartphone world is becoming more like the “rising from the ashes” phenomenon. As soon as you...

COVID 19 might have had a disastrous effect on global economy (even though large conglomerates like Apple just seem...

Blue origin’s ‘national team’ (which consists of  Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Draper) has delivered a full-sized mockup of...

Netflix is currently testing a shuffle play feature, which as the name suggests will play random movies or TV...

Instagram today launched a new feature that will allow users to generate QR codes, which can be easily scanned...

Delivering on a promise from last year, Airbnb has decided to go public(or at least start the process) and...

Apparently, not just Gmail or Google Drive, now even Google Meet, Docs and Google Voice are experiencing outages across...

A competitor to Facebook at the beginning, Instagram has went on to become one of the Facebook’s most profitable...

Twitter is one of the most ‘open’ social media platforms we have today, which makes it more susceptible to...

In what was largely considered inevitable, Apple, in early morning trade today, has crossed the $2Tn market cap milestone....

SpaceX has launched yet another batch of Starlink satellites into space, marking the 11th such mission to take place....

Two of India’s most prominent healthtech startups are announcing merger today, in first signs of consolidation as an after...

TikTok has now launched a new information hub and twitter account to address “rumours and misinformation” about its platform....

India is the world’s fifth largest economy, with a nominal GDP of over $3 Trillion. However, credit cards and...

As soon as 2020 set in, everyone got a taste of exactly what Asia’s richest man Mukesh Ambani had...

SpaceX has raised $1.9 billion in capital from various undisclosed sources, marking what is the company’s biggest funding amount...

Google says that with this new draft, it will have to give certain local news agencies unfair advantage. The...

Google is testing a slew of new features to provide better experience to its Chrome users on Android, as...

Masai School, an online+offline skilling platform that imparts industry-relevant skills instead of traditional educational curriculum, has raised $2.5Mn in...

Every few years, we see a jump in technology that establishes the foundation of what the future will hold....

Joining the ranks of global VC/PE firms raising India-focused funds, Lightspeed VP, a prominent name in the global early-stage/growth-stage...

Google Cloud is the number one cloud service provider to the retail sector according to a report by Canalys,...

SoftBank Group Corp has finally risen from a long slumber and made investments in Amazon, Netflix, Tesla, Alphabet and...

Taking their political rivalry to the social media field, India’s primary opposition party, the Indian National Congress, has accused...

Facebook has been eyeing an integration of all its messaging platforms for quite some time now, and has made...

Saugat Pokharel, an independent security researcher, has found a bug in Instagram’s systems, that resulted in the platform storing...

While the Venture fund market declined in the early stages of the coronavirus pandemic, many organisations have found ways...

E-retail companies have been trying to expand their footprint in India given the opportunity posed by COVID-19 pandemic. We...

Tesla, usually the first to adapt to new technologies, has been quite late to one of the most basic...

With COVID 19, the landscape of entertainment has changed, and online events have replaced huge gatherings. At a time...

Not surprisingly, the feature is very similar to TikTok. The likes and comments can be found in the bottom...

To make sure that you don’t end up providing your personal, valuable data to imposters, Google chrome is testing...

Following on an announcement from June, Facebook has launched a Voting Information Center on Facebook and Instagram as a...

Donald Trump and social media have a weird love-hate relationship, where he keeps complaining about said platforms but can’t...

As Reliance continues to transform Jio Platforms into a global digital tech behemoth, the company could now be looking...

Companies like Uber and Lyft have found a way to employ a large number of workforce without having any...

Google wants to expand the catalogue of app that it offers as part of the Android experience, and is...

Amazon’s growing footprint has invited a lot of scrutiny into its practices, with many, including the American Congress noting...

Fortnite, the gaming title that can be easily counted perhaps humankind’s most popular ones ever, has been booted out...

Apple had set a very optimistic goal for itself — to cross 600 million paid subscribers on its services...

Thus, the platform will have almost the same offerings as the other online pharmacies in the country, which have...

Microsoft will be launching its first dual-screen Android device- the Surface Duo, on 10th September 2020. The device, as...

We have all heard governments arguing that TikTok is ‘stealing user data and beaming it straight back to China....

The Console war in on, and much like last time, the competition will be brutal. Both Microsoft (owner of...

Image showing successful test of Skyroot’s RAMAN engine. Credit: Skyroot Aerospace All in all, the company’s Vikram line of...