Archive for category: Consumer Tech

Unicorn India Ventures, is announcing a fresh investment from its Rs. 400 crore Fund II, investing $650K in pre...

In line with that most had expected for the digital industry’s growth during COVID-19, new data from Sensor Tower...

In a news that has become common to ears, yet another major tech company has announced opting out of...

B Capital Group, the second biggest thing Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin has worked on, has closed an $820 million...

Ola, on Tuesday, rolled out an ‘in-app tipping feature’ which as the name suggests will allow cab hailers to...

Google has been veering away from paid listings, as was announced in its initiative in April, when the company...

The announcement is sure to hit ByteDance, Tiktok’s parent company, right where it hurts, seeing how India was the...

Didi, the most popular ride hailing platform in China, is planning to launch a robotaxi service in the region....

In what looks like a move to counter Mukesh Ambani’s multi-billion ecommerce venture JioMart, Amazon today launched a new...

Verizon has announced that it will be suspending all advertisements on Facebook, for its blatant disregard for the safety...

Telegram’s Pavel Durov’s plans of running his own cryptocurrency platform are officially shelved now. The U.S. Securities and Exchange...

As the world of computing was taking shape, Microsoft emerged as one of its founding fathers. The company’s OS...

Amazon has acquired Zoox, a startup that is designing autonomous ride hailing services. The acquisiton will also mark Amazon’s...

So, after months and months of waiting, we finally have a release date for the Marvel’s Avengers game. And...

Within a month of Jack Ma’s resignation from the Softbank board, Masayoshi Son has announced that his investment in...

With the COVID-19 pandemic paralyzing global economy, traditional businesses — be it large or small — seem to have...

Byju’s, the unicorn edtech behemoth, that has continued to reel in external cash amid exponential growth curves, has landed...

Google announced yesterday, that it now plans to offer credit to millions of small merchants in India through its...

In the tech industry at large, companies are gravitated towards new technologies, for any one of them can be...

For quite some time now, there have been debates around how Google sources original content from publishers, earns billions...

Nintendo entered the Chinese market, holding the hand of Tencent Holdings Ltd., the multi billion dollar chinese conglomerate that is...

As urban markets saturate, ecommerce companies are increasingly looking to further spread into rural, semi-urban geographies to look for...

Global Positioning System, or “GPS” as we have come to know it, has become synonymous with location today. Billions...

In a time where social distancing has become the mantra of the world, IT employees around the world are...

Yesterday was the first day of Apple’s virtual WWDC (Worldwide Developer Conference) where Apple announced all the new features...

Facebook has been putting its back into expanding into the world of gaming, a market that’s growing every day....

Whatsapp’s payment service, which officially debuted through a launch in Brazil, is already facing suspension, days after its launch....

Twitter is back in cybersecurity news, as the company reports yet another data breach via its platform. Though this...

When the world posed the question, “What about contact tracing?”, India answered with Aarogya Setu. And while the app...

Facebook has announced an invite only beta for Forecast, a weird app that has an even weirder launch time....

WWDC 2020 turned out to be an onslaught of shiny new Apple software, including the new iOS, iPadOS, watchOS...

While announcing major new upgrades to iOS, iPadOS, WatchOS and more, Apple also provided significant new software upgrades for...

After a long wait, Apple has finally come out and announced the iOS 14, a worthy successor to the...

COVID-19 has, by a long margin, been one of the biggest health disasters in the history of mankind. And...

In early May 2020, the Indian government removed its lockdown restriction rules for ecommerce companies. Consequently, these companies started...

Grocery delivery platform Milkbasket is announcing a fresh $5.5Mn round led by Inflection Point Ventures, along with participation from...

After years of efforts, Whatsapp seems to have finally complied with India’s data localisation norms to start its digital...

After speculations of an Initial Public Offering, the much storied U.S. data analytics startup Palantir is surprisingly raising $500...

Zomato announced, on Friday, that it will part ways with the TechEagle Innovations, a drone startup that it had...

With COVID 19 on a worldwide rampage, “normal” and “routine” seem like words from the distant past. The virus...

In an ecommerce trend that has gained widespread momentum both politically and publicly in India, Amazon and BigBasket have...

Reliance-owned Jio Platforms has been raising money left and right from the past few months, stocking up for its...

The incident at Galwan valley has instigated the Indian government to take a hard look at some of the...

Facebook, on Thursday, removed a set of ads run by Trump’s re-election campaign because they went against its policies...

Facebook’s deal with Jio for a 10% stake in the largest telecom operator in India has caught the eye...