Finbox, a fintech that provides B2B digital credit infrastructure to consumer fintech platforms, has announced a new $15Mn fundraise....
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Vahak lands $14Mn for its logistics marketplace that aims to help India’s truck drivers earn better
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0India is a nearly $250Bn logistics market, as per FY 2021 estimates. And considering the country’s ambitious development goals...
SEBI hits Reliance with fine for improper disclosure of Facebook-Jio deal
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0Reliance Industries, one of India’s most pervasive business behemoths, have been fined ₹30 lakhs ($38,522) by the Securities and...
Indian govt. bans WhatsApp groups for allegedly spreading misinformation and coordinating protests against Agnipath military reforms
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0Following protests that turned in violent across several parts of the country over Indian government’s ‘Agnipath’ military reforms, the...
Telegram rolls out new Premium tier as user base expands to over 700 million
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0Telegram has carved a nice niche for itself, and today, it is on the path to becoming a household...
Crypto tumble continues as Bitcoin reached crucial $20,000 mark
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0The crypto winter that has prevailed for the better half of the year shows no signs of leaving, something...
Sharechat raises $255 Mn, closes series H round at $5 Bn valuation
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0Indian vernacular social media platform ShareChat has roped in investment worth $255 Mn from Google, Times group and existing...
Fantasy esports startup FanClash bags $40 Mn in Series B round
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0FanClash, a Gurugram-based Fantasy gaming startup, has attracted $40 Mn in Series B round financing lead by Alpha Wave...
Apple to face a $935 Mn class action in the UK for alleged throttling of older devices
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0Apple is set to face another class action lawsuit for allegedly, purposefully slowing down performance of older models, in...
Samsung Wallet goes live in select regions, holds IDs, digital Keys and more
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0For quite some time, the smartphone connoisseurs, a community that doesn’t often have resonating opinions, have been complaining about...
Mastercard’s ban lifted, allowed to onboard new customers in India
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0Nearly a year ago, on July 22, 2021, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) decided to put a halt...
Instagram is testing a new full-screen feed
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0The battle for dominance in the social media sphere continues to intensify as new platforms enter the arena and...
Carl Pei’s ‘Nothing’ gets $200Mn backing, teases debut smartphone launch
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0Once again, a new competitor is coming in to take on the battle to the Apples and Samsungs in...
Spotify to slow down recruitment by 25%
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0The list of companies, specially in tech, that are laying off employees or slowing or freezing hiring continues to...
upGrad’s valuation doubles as it picks up $225Mn in latest fundraise
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0The pandemic was instrumental in ensuring that online education rose to prominence and the edtech sector grew by leaps...
Groyyo lands $40Mn in Tiger Global led Series A for its B2B manufacturing and supply chain platform
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0Groyyo Founders: L-R Pratik Tiwari, Ridam Upadhyay, Subin Mitra Talking about the company, its prospects and reasoning behind launch,...
WhatsApp gets official support for data transfer from Android to iOS
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0Android users can relate to the hassle that accompanied their endeavours to transfer their WhatsApp chat history from the...
Amid crypto meltdown and hiring freeze, Coinbase to lay off 18% of its global workforce
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0The crypto winter has been hard for crypto enthusiasts, cryptocurrencies, and crypto exchanges alike – in fact, the overall...
Meta has former COO Sheryl Sandberg under review for personal use of corporate resources
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0Meta Platforms Inc., (formerly facebook), tends to struggle to make headlines for the right reasons. Days after Former COO...
Reliance owned Viacom18 bags IPL digital streaming rights for $2.6Bn, Disney’s Star India gets India TV rights for $3Bn
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0The IPL is the golden egg of the BCCI – unarguably the crown jewel of world cricket . And...
Sequoia Capital launches funds worth $2.85Bn to drive investments in India and SE Asia
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0Sequoia Capital is looking to double down on India and SE Asia markets, as it announced two new funds,...
Bitcoin, other cryptocurrencies plummet as crypto lending platform Celsius halts withdrawl
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0The hardships being faced by conventional global economy are showing signs of seeping into the cryptocurrency ecosystem as well....
On media rights auction Day 1, IPL receives bids worth $5.5Bn, digital streaming at $2.27Bn
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0Cricket is not just a game, it is indeed nothing short of a religion in India. And the most...
Snapdeal, Unicommerce, and Stellaro consolidated under one, ‘AceVector’ group
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0India’s multi-billion-dollar retail industry (slated to reach nearly $2 trillion by 2030) is mostly an unorganized one. Nonetheless, it...
Amazon backs out of mega IPL media rights race: Report
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0Amazon has reportedly removed itself from contention for media and streaming rights of world’s most valued cricket tournament, the...
Aerotime, an app that declutters calendars to enhance workplace productivity, gets seeded with $2Mn
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0Bengaluru based workplace optimization app Aerotime has raised $2Mn in a seed round, led by Nexus Venture Partners, Y...
Goldman backed online beauty retailer Purplle raises $33Mn, turns unicorn
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0Mumbai-based online self-care and beauty product retail platform Purplle has raised $33 million in it’s series E fundraise, pushing...
Tesla cancels three online hiring events for China scheduled in June
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0A week after Elon Musk directed company executives to pause all hiring globally, Tesla has now cancelled three online...
Meta has reportedly scaled back plans for its AR glasses, won’t be launching the first version by 2024
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0Earlier, Facebook parent Meta had announced that it was pouring in billions of dollars to develop augmented reality (AR)...
CRED valued at $6.4Bn in GIC led Series F round
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0Serial entrepreneur Kunal Shah’s brainchild CRED, the popular credit card bill payment app, has announced a new $80 Mn...
India’s RBI allows linking of credit cards with UPI, starting with RuPay cards
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0In what would further bolster UPI — an already impressive and powerful payment infrastructure backed by the Indian government...
Pepper Content gets $14Mn in latest round for its content marketplace, eyes US expansion
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0Pepper Content, the Indian content marketplace that helps nearly 100K creators earn while writing content for global corporates, has...
Tencent will take its flagship game ‘Honor of Kings’ global once again
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0The increasing restrictions in the Chinese market have seen Western companies such as Amazon and LinkedIn pull the plug...
Dave Clark joins logistics giant Flexport as co-CEO
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0At the beginning of the month, Amazon veteran and its worldwide consumer chief Dave Clark announced his resignation from...
Edtech Physics Wallah raises $100 Mn in its first fundraise, turns unicorn
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0Physics Wallah, an edtech platform targeting high school and above with a blended learning model, has raised $100 Mn...
Instagram will now let users pin up to three posts on their profile
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0If you are one of the 1.3 billion+ people who have Instagram, then you might have wanted to further...
Uni, the fintech behind Pay 1/3rd credit card, lands $6.4Mn in debt from Stride Ventures
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0Fintech startup Uni, which offers short-term credit options for youth, has announced raising of a $6.4Mn (~₹50 crore) debt...
EU finalizes provisional agreement on charging port standardisation rules
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0There’s a few things that tech enthusiasts only talk about in their closest circles, the utopian tech implementations that...
WWDC 2022: iOS and MacOS to get real-time security updates
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0Over the past few years, Apple has made privacy and security, the primary selling point for all of its...
Softbank-backed Brazilian crypto upstart 2TM lays off 10% employees amid crypto bear run
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0In recent times, most of the journalistic institutions have spent their time bearing bad news about global economy and...
Amazon Consumer CEO Dave Clark resigns after 23 year tenure
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0Dave Clark, the man behind Amazon’s unprecedented scale of expansion during the past two decades and more, has decided...
Apple announces ‘Freeform’, its own version of a digital whiteboard
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0With COVID restricting people to homes, leading to work from home becoming the “new normal”, almost every major tech...
Apple unveils new M2 powered Macbook Air and 13 inch Macbook Pro
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0The WWDC 2022 has concluded. And this year was not exactly like every other year. WWDC is traditionally a...
All new iOS 16 from Apple: New, customisable lockscreen, updated messages and more
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0The WWDC 2022 is here, which means like every year, tech enthusiasts and Apple loyalists get a glance at...
Elon Musk directs Tesla executives to pause all hiring, cut staff by 10% in a leaked email
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 02022 has not been the best year for global economy. And not just for the common 9-to-5 worker, or...
Xiaomi revamps India leadership, appoints Alvin Tse as General Manager
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0Following tough times and legal challenges in the Indian market, Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi has revamped its Indian leadership...
WhatsApp banned 1.6Mn Indian accounts in April for suspicious activity, policy violations
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0The Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 requires, among other things, all major social...
Amazon will be shutting down its Kindle e-bookstore in China next year: Report
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0The Chinese market has proved itself to be a tough nut to crack for foreign, especially American, companies. The...
Amid crypto bear run, Coinbase extends hiring freeze, rescinds offers
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0If you recently received an offer from crypto exchange giant Coinbase and are yet to start, do not get...
FireFox gets a free add-on that will perform entire translations offline
TheTechMedia, , Consumer Tech, Showcase, Social Tech, Technology, #TheTechMedia #TechNews #Techupdates #technology #ttm #techupdates, 0Language is no longer a barrier when it comes to Google Chrome – users are almost as fluent in...
- iPhone users finally get Truecaller’s real-time caller ID January 23, 2025
- Automation upstart Ati Motors raises $20Mn in Series B to fund global expansion January 23, 2025
- Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra features multimodal AI agents, starts at $1,299 January 23, 2025
- Samsung announces AI-loaded Galaxy S25 series with new 3nm chip, starts at $800 January 23, 2025
- LinkedIn faces lawsuit for alleged use of customer data to train AI models without consent January 23, 2025