In what has the potential to feature among the larger acquisitions of 2018, SiriusXM has expressed it’s interest in purchasing Pandora for a...
SiriusXM is planning to acquire Pandora for $3.5 Billion
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Amazon Prime Reading is now available in India
Amazon Prime Reading, another complimentary service for the Amazon Prime members, has now been launched in India. The service has been a part of...
Facebook is rolling out video ad breaks to 21 new countries
Facebook has decided to expand its video ad break service to 21 new countries. Up until now, ad break functioned in United States, United Kingdom...
Nokia 5.1 Plus with dual rear cameras launched in India for Rs. 10,999
HMD Global has today officially launched the Nokia 5.1 Plus in the Indian market, for a price of Rs. 10,999. Earlier, the company has announced the...
SiriusXM is planning to acquire Pandora for $3.5 Billion
In what has the potential to feature among the larger acquisitions of 2018, SiriusXM has expressed it’s interest in purchasing Pandora for a...
Apple acquires Shazam for $400 Mn, promises to remove advertisements shortly
Apple has finally announced its acquisition of music recognition app, Shazam. The tech giant is shelling out a rather significant $400 million for...
Vivo V9 Pro is all set to debut in India on 26th September as Amazon-exclusive
Vivo is all set to announce a new mid-range smartphone in the Indian market — Vivo V9 Pro, which is the upgraded model of the Vivo V9 launched...
Samsung Galaxy Watch launched in India, starts at ₹24,990
Samsung Galaxy Watch has now been officially launched in India. The smartwatch, which was first unveiled alongside the Galaxy Note 9 at an event...
Twitter discovers a bug that may have shared users’ DMs with unknown developers
Twitter has recently shared details about the bug it has come across which might have shared users’ direct messages with unauthorized...
OnePlus 6 starts receiving Android Pie-based OxygenOS update
Just over a month after Google officially released Android Pie, Chinese smartphone maker OnePlus has now started rolling out Android Pie-based...
Eight Roads Ventures sets up office in Singapore, eyes deals in SEA
Eight Roads Ventures has opened an office in Singapore with a high focus on the Southeast Asian market. Raj Dugar, Managing Partner, Asia, will be...
Facebook’s video calling device could be out as early as next week!
Over the past few quarters, the smart speaker segment has exhibited a surge of growth. The last quarter saw companies such as Google and Amazon well...
HMD Global is launching a new smartphone on October 4 in London
HMD Global, the company behind the resurrected Nokia smartphone brand, has started sending out media invites for an event on October 4th in London...
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Amazon Prime Reading is now available in India
Amazon Prime Reading, another complimentary service for the Amazon Prime members, has now been launched in India. The service has been a part of...
Facebook is rolling out video ad breaks to 21 new countries
Facebook has decided to expand its video ad break service to 21 new countries. Up until now, ad break functioned in United States, United Kingdom...
SiriusXM is planning to acquire Pandora for $3.5 Billion
In what has the potential to feature among the larger acquisitions of 2018, SiriusXM has expressed it’s interest in purchasing Pandora for a...
Amazon Prime Reading is now available in India
Amazon Prime Reading, another complimentary service for the Amazon Prime members, has now been launched in India. The service has been a part of...
Facebook is rolling out video ad breaks to 21 new countries
Facebook has decided to expand its video ad break service to 21 new countries. Up until now, ad break functioned in United States, United Kingdom...
SiriusXM is planning to acquire Pandora for $3.5 Billion
In what has the potential to feature among the larger acquisitions of 2018, SiriusXM has expressed it’s interest in purchasing Pandora for a...
Apple acquires Shazam for $400 Mn, promises to remove advertisements shortly
Apple has finally announced its acquisition of music recognition app, Shazam. The tech giant is shelling out a rather significant $400 million for...
Vivo V9 Pro is all set to debut in India on 26th September as Amazon-exclusive
Vivo is all set to announce a new mid-range smartphone in the Indian market — Vivo V9 Pro, which is the upgraded model of the Vivo V9 launched...
Facebook’s video calling device could be out as early as next week!
Over the past few quarters, the smart speaker segment has exhibited a surge of growth. The last quarter saw companies such as Google and Amazon well...
Tired of overhashed posts on Instagram? A cure may be on its way (With other powerful features)
The lure of gaining followers on Instagram has people straining to put their posts in front of as many people as possible. And what’s the best...
Indian government to again demand WhatsApp to trace origin of incendiary messages
The Indian Government is certainly not content with the measures Whatsapp has taken as of now, to reduce spread of fake messaging. Hence, the...
Facebook and Airbnb among companies asked to modify their ToS by the European Commission
The European Commission is not known to mince words or use kid gloves when it comes to telling companies to toe the line. The commission’s...
Facebook Dating goes Live, starts with a roll out in Colombia
Facebook’s data backed approach in helping you find your romance starts rolling out today. The featured, christened for now as ‘Facebook...
India’s largest women-centred community platform, Sheroes, raises funding from Leo Capital and others
In what has the potential to provide a major impetus to women centric initiatives in the country’s startup ecosystem, India’s largest...
Gitlab raises $100 Million in Series D, eyes IPO by November 2020
Welcome this latest fresher to the Unicorn club! Gitlab, the company that aims to develop a single-source platform for the entire devops lifecycle...
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Eight Roads Ventures has opened an office in Singapore with a high focus on the Southeast Asian market. Raj Dugar, Managing Partner, Asia, will be taking a...
European company Rocket Internet has announced a share-buyback program. The company will be shelling out €150 million, to purchase somewhere around 3.6% of...
In what has the potential to provide a major impetus to women centric initiatives in the country’s startup ecosystem, India’s largest women’s...
Gitlab raises $100 Million in Series D, eyes IPO by November 2020
Welcome this latest fresher to the Unicorn club! Gitlab, the company that aims to develop a single-source platform for the entire devops lifecycle...
Binny Bansal underscores the “Walmart overpaid for Flipkart” chatter
Earlier this year, India-based online marketplace Flipkart was acquired by US-based retail giant Walmart in a deal worth $16 billion. Many believed...
Home design startup Livspace gets $70 Million in Series C from TPG growth and Goldman Sachs
Banking on its strong growth over the past couple of years, Livspace, the home design startup which was founded in 2014, has secured a fresh $70...
Paytm has hit the $10Bn valuation mark, becomes India’s 2nd most valued startup
Looks like Whatsapp’s payments introduction has finally (finally!!) brought some good omen for the otherwise, genuinely cry-baby behaving...
China’s Ofo nabs over $700Mn from Alibaba, Didi Chuxing and others
Putting a full stop to the insistent rumors that had been flooding the interwebs over the last few weeks, Chinese bike rental
ofo, has raked in $700...
Andy Rubin’s Playground Ventures is raising another $15 million round
Android Inventor Andy Rubin’s VC firm Playground Ventures is raising another $15 million as part of its mission to back promising startups in...
1mg Technologies to raise $10 million in equity financing
1mg Technologies, the online healthcare pharmacy, is reportedly close to finalising a $10-million equity financing round. The funding round is being...
Lockheed Martin has purchased stakes in Terran Orbital
Lockheed Martin has reportedly purchased significant stakes in U.S. nanosatellite company Terran Orbital. The investment comes even as corporations...
apps
Converting Videos Using Movavi Video Converter
At first glance it may seem as though converting videos is unnecessary as computers tend to be fairly versatile in terms of the formats they can...
Best Android Apps of August 2017
Since we already started a new month, let us look at some of best Android Apps released in the month of August. Each category has a bunch of new or...
Google’s new Android application will let you manage the data being used by other apps
Google is testing a brand new application that will let users manage the mobile data usage on their smartphones. Excited? I bet. We have all been...
Facebook is bringing in new filters, reactions and masks to its messenger video chat
Facebook’s video chat is pretty cool. I used to be a WhatsApp fan for video calls, but the reactions, filters and masks available on...
Facebook shows off new standalone app for video creators, to release later this year
To further discuss its live video-focused ambitions, Facebook today took center stage at VidCon, the largest online creator meetup and announced that...
YouTube’s mobile app will soon ‘dynamically’ adapt videos to fit the screen
YouTube is the biggest playground for video content on the interwebs. While you can find high-quality videos from full-time video creators, the...
Microsoft’s feature-packed Whiteboard app for Windows 10 PCs leaked online
While unveiling its latest piece of hardware, the Surface Pro, Microsoft also showed off the Whiteboard app coming to Windows 10 PCs with the...
Airbnb starts testing payment splitting feature, putting its Tilt acquisition into action
While we all know that planning a vacation is a massive chore but an even bigger nuisance comes after the trip has been completed. You then need to...
gadgets
Vivo is all set to announce a new mid-range smartphone in the Indian market — Vivo V9 Pro, which is the upgraded model of the Vivo V9 launched earlier this year...
Millennial and older generations can probably remember a time when the mention of eCommerce would have drawn blank stares from all corners of the room. However, today...
Amazon’s Echo speakers with Alexa to be in India soon
According to two sources who are in the know, Amazon’s famous smart speaker Echo, powered by Amazon’s voice assistant Alexa will be...
Want to advertise in VR? Google’s Area 120 has you covered
Google made a significant portion of its money advertising. And now, the company is attempting to ensure that its core business keeps pace with the...
Samsung has launched a ‘Rose Pink’ variant of the Galaxy S8 Plus in Taiwan
Perhaps taking a cue from Apple’s newly debuted ‘Product Red’ line of iPhones, Samsung has launched a new ‘Rose Pink’...
Nokia to enter the US market in early July with the $229 Nokia 6
HMD Global, which now holds the license for the Nokia brand, is all set to enter the US market by launching its Nokia 6 smartphone in the country...
code
Gitlab raises $100 Million in Series D, eyes IPO by November 2020
Welcome this latest fresher to the Unicorn club! Gitlab, the company that aims to develop a single-source platform for the entire devops lifecycle...
Microsoft has decided to extend Edge browser’s bug bounty program indefinitely
Microsoft appears to have had quite a bit of success with its bug bounty program. And it has probably worked well for Microsoft’s Edge browser...
WhatsApp extends support for older Android versions until 2020
Due to prevailing fragmentation in the Android ecosystem, Facebook-owned messaging giant WhatsApp has now decided to further extend support of its...
Now NSA has a GitHub account, and it just open-sourced 32 internal projects
National Security Agency, well-known to everyone as the NSA, is one of the most secretive intelligence organizations of the United States. It has...
Nintendo Switch could soon enable kids to code their own games on the console
Nintendo Switch may now have become a staple for gamers across the globe but the hybrid console will soon also come in handy as a coding tool in the...
IBM to open more physical ‘Garages’ to develop iOS enterprise apps
Three years ago, Apple and IBM formed a partnership to create more enterprise apps for iOS. IBM has now announced that it will be taking this...
Google Cloud Platform unveils its first Southeast Asian center in Singapore
Internet giant Google today unveils its first Google Cloud servers in Singapore, after witnessing a 100% increase in paid customers of the nation...
Google Drive will soon back up your entire system to the cloud
Google Drive is already one of the most widely-used cloud storage platforms available to users, but the search giant is planning to further the...
the internet
The Walmart and Amazon battle now has been escalated to another level as Wal-Mart has asked its technology vendors not to use Amazon Web Services.
As...
Infosys, one of the largest IT services company in India, has now dropped its ambitious long-term revenue target of $20 billion. The company’s...
Melbourne-based startup Loop11 develops platform to enable detailed usability testing
To help businesses perfect their online presence and ensure that visitors stick around, Melbourne-based startup Loop11 has developed a platform that...
NSW Govt partners with Twitter to serve commuters with personalized train service information
The New South Wales(NSW) government has announced that it will be turning to Twitter to announce delays and details on the state’s train network...
Amazon has finally begun integrating its games with Twitch
A couple of years ago when Amazon acquired Twitch for over a billion bucks, we just knew that at some point Amazon Games Studios titles would be...
Arduino makes hardware hacking easier than ever with its new ESLOV IoT Invention Kit
The electronics market today is filled with hundreds of thousands of devices. And yeah, that means there is more than one device that has the same...
this is our future
Mozilla’s ‘Firefox Reality’, a VR-only browser that the company announced in April earlier this year, is now available for general usage.
Audi announces e-tron SUV, its first production ready fully-electric vehicle
Looking to take on Tesla in its very own backyard in partnership with Amazon, Audi has launched its very first, product ready electric vehicle. The...
Tesla and other manufacturers are looking for ways to ensure that drivers keep their hands on the wheel
Tesla and a slew of car manufacturers are currently wracking their heads regarding situations wherein the driver takes their hands off the steering...
Amazon patents futuristic-looking beehive delivery drone tower
Amazon knows drones are the future of package delivery. It is bulking up on resources and technology to emerge as one of the most prominent...
With launch of Cartosat-2 and 30 nano satellites, ISRO completes 40th successful PSLV flight
The Indian Space Research Organization, widely known as ISRO, has today completed another successful flight, further showing off its growing prowess...
Google Glass receives its first ever update since 2014, could a revival be on the cards?
It seems like Google’s vaunted Glass project isn’t quite dead yet. The company has released a brand new update for the platform...
Xbox head Phil Spencer spills the beans on mysterious ‘Direct Reality’ trademark
Just ahead of the Electronic Entertainment Expo (commonly known as E3) earlier last week, we spotted a trademark application for “Direct...
Bitcoin could possibly become official in India as soon as next week
As the global virtual currency market continues to heat up, the adoption of these cryptocurrencies continues to climb in India as well. The populace...
Sony launches its kids-focused KOOV robotics kit on Indiegogo
Sony has finally launched its KOOV robotics kit on Indiegogo, a year after it was supposed to. KOOV is a coding and robotics kit that has modular...