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China’s Uber rival Didi Chuxing to delist from the US
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0While 2021 has been a friend of Indian startups (resulting in a record number of unicorns popping up), it...
You can now book a ride on Uber via WhatsApp
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0Uber is walking down a new path as the ride-hailing behemoth is bringing a brand-new option to Indian users....
Amazon’s Marketplace is its most profitable segment, clocking in over $120Bn built on seller fees: Report
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0Amazon’s policies continue to face scrutiny, as a recent report showed that it has been bringing in tons of...
Amazon, Apple fined $225Mn by Italy’s antitrust regulator
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0Italy’s antitrust authority has fined both Apple and Amazon for a total of over 200 million euros ($225 million)...
Real-time animations, among other features going live on Reddit
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0Reddit needs no introduction – the front page of the internet is one of the most popular forums and...
Find out the winners of Google Play’s Best of 2021
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0With 2022 around the corner, the time has come to determine how our favorite apps have fared in a...
CRED acquires Happay – a full-stack expense management platform for businesses
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0As CRED slows down on its marketing-driven hype and looks for possible, actual business avenues for some real growth,...
Simpl gets $40Mn to expand its buy now pay later platform
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0Amid the Fintech innovation boom that India has witnessed this past decade or so, buy now pay later services...
UK competition regulator orders Facebook parent ‘Meta’ to sell Giphy
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0It seems that the matter of the acquisition of Giphy by Meta (erstwhile Facebook Inc) has finally reached a...
Edtech leader upGrad expands beyond domestic borders, acquires Australia’s Global Study Partners
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0Education has undergone a revolution over the past one-and-a-half year, and while things might not be the same, some...
How Toll-Free Numbers Help FMCG Industry
Niti Sharma, , Technology, buy a toll free number in India, toll free numbers, 0Customers hold the key to building or destroying brands. Therefore, you have to be on your toes while catering...
Jack Dorsey to step down as Twitter CEO, CTO Parag Agrawal to take over
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0Twitter is having a change of guard once again as CEO Jack Dorsey is expected to step down from...
Fresh $200M fundraise catapults fintech ‘Slice’ to unicorn status
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0Unicorns in India have sprung up like crazy in the past 11 months, thanks to the revival of the...
Indian govt asks public not to sign up for SpaceX Starlink, says it does not have license to offer internet services in India
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0Starlink has been Elon Musk’s mission to provide high-speed, low-latency internet to the world, regardless of geographical barriers. However,...
B2B e-commerce upstart Udaan to now enter consumer-focused grocery business
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0With the changing times, companies have resorted to stepping out of their comfort zones and venturing into the unknown...
Digital financial services firm Indifi raises ₹340 crore in equity and debt financing
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 02020 and 2021 have been opposites – while the previous year adversely impacted several industries, this year has been...
NASA launches a “DART” at space to kick asteroid off course amid a planned planetary defense test
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0If you have watched Mimi Leder’s film “Deep Impact,” where a manned spacecraft had been sent to space to...
Podcasting platform Podimo gobbles up $78 million in Series B round
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0The tastes of people are changing as more and more users are looking for audio content – in fact,...
Enhance Your Career in HR the right way
Niti Sharma, , Reviews, HR career, HR professional, HR skills, 0Success in current businesses has taken many meanings. Apart from just pay hikes and promotions, success has gotten a...
Netflix is acquiring Scanline VFX, the German visual effects studio behind ‘Stranger Things’, ‘GOT’ among others
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0A visual effects still from ‘Stranger Things’. Source: Netflix official website Scanline was founded in 1989 and is now...
Blume Ventures announces first close at $105Mn for its fourth fund
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0Blume Ventures, one of the most prominent and among the oldest homegrown venture capital firms in India, has announced...
New crypto law in India soon to ban all private cryptocurrencies, with a few ‘exceptions’
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0Cryptocurrency has had a contradictory journey in India – on one hand, the country has nearly 15-20 million crypto...
GetSetUp, a platform that provides niche learning courses for older adults, gets $10Mn in fresh fundraise
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0To say that the startup sector in India has undergone a revolution will be an understatement, given the record...
Instagram, Facebook Messenger will not get end-to-end encryption as a default, before 2023
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0If you use WhatsApp, then you are no stranger to end-to-end encryption. For those who are unfamiliar with it,...
Tier-II focused test prep startup Toppersnotes rakes in $1Mn as it looks to scale
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0It would be an understatement to say, that Education has changed in a post-pandemic world. Online learning is the...
Paytm says it clocked $11.2Bn in Oct’21 “GMV”, but that isn’t arresting its share price slide
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0Paytm, the digital payments giant that had a forgettable public market debut last week (which became even more forgettable...
Fintech startup Defy snaps up $5.5Mn to create India’s first social crypto exchange platform
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 02021 has been kind to the startup sector in India, clocking many highs and creating new records. The newest...
Grammarly raises a staggering $200Mn in fresh fundraise
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0Grammarly, the popular writing correction platform that has literally become a writer-household name, is getting even bigger. The San...
Flipkart is enters online pharmacy space with SastaSundar.com acquisition, announces ‘Flipkart Health+’
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0India’s highly lucrative but fiercely competitive online healthcare space will now see another major entrant. Flipkart today announced, that...
Facebook tests a new News Feed that will let you see less from groups, more from friends
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0If you are still one of those who regularly uses Facebook, you’d know how utterly irritating it becomes to...
India could soon allow Cryptocurrency as an asset, but not a legal tender
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0There has been a buzz for quite some time, about India — the world’s fastest growing digital payments market...
Paytm makes an expected, muted public market debut at ₹1950, shares continue to slide
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 02021 has a been a year of reckoning for India’s startup ecosystem. The year has seen a bunch of...
Better Capital raises $15.28 million for its maiden fund
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 02021 has become the golden year for the startup ecosystem in the world’s second-largest internet market, and it continues...
Employee management platform SalaryBox gets seeded with $4Mn from Y-Combinator, others
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0SalaryBox, a fintech startup that specialises as an employee management platform, has announced a $4Mn seed round today. The...
PolicyBazaar debuts on public markets, shares list at over 22% premium on IPO price
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 02021 is turning out to be a truly golden one for India’s maturing startup ecosystem. While the country has...
Twitter is acquiring Threader, a platform that eases users in finding popular tweet threads
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0Twitter has been making acquisitions left and right this year, and Threader is the latest name on the list....
B2B e-commerce major Moglix acquires Singapore fintech ‘NuPhi’, enters EXIM financing space
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0One of India’s rare success stories in the massively difficult B2B ecommerce space, Moglix has announced that it has...
Amazon Echo and Echo Dot will now detect people presence using ultrasound
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0If only privacy from tech needed to become a bigger joke, Amazon’s vision of smart home is now inching...
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover shows us something “no one’s ever seen”
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover has been on the Red Planet for quite some time as humanity seeks to unlock...
China Tencent could emerge as a likely rival to Facebook’s metaverse vision
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0The metaverse has not come yet, but companies have already started betting big on it. Facebook (now Meta) has...
Instagram adds TikTok like Voice Effects and Text-to Speech features to Reels
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0Instagram has been launching several new features in recent times, and the latest ones are additions to its Reels....
Q4 2021 less kind to Disney+, subscriptions on the decline
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0People have flocked in the millions to online platforms after the pandemic prevented them to go to cinema halls...
Days after Twitter poll, Musk sells $5Bn worth of Tesla shares
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0Billionaire technology entrepreneur Elon Musk, has sold about $5 billion worth of Tesla shares, according to regulatory filings, now...
YouTube to hide dislike counts
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0The internet is a place where bullying and harassment are ripe, even though most major social media platforms are...
Take a break, with Instagram’s latest feature
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0Addiction to social media is a glaring problem that is mostly present in the younger generation, and this often...
Security software firm McAfee acquired by investor consortium for over $14 billion
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0The latest acquisition this year came in the form of security software company McAfee, which is being acquired by...
Apple Music will now include Chinese music, courtesy deal with Tencent Music Entertainment
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0Four years after Tencent and Sweden had entered into an agreement, the East and the West have come together...
EV maker Rivian values itself at $65 billion in IPO, shares priced at $78 apiece
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0Rivian, the electric vehicle maker that aimed at rivalling Tesla but is yet to launch a single EV in...
Nykaa makes strong stock market debut, lists at nearly 80% premium on opening day
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0Fashion e-commerce upstart Nykaa, which is among a slew of first generation Indian startups making public market debuts, has...
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