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• newTech chief executives to defend key law in front of US Senate panel
  
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• newMicrosoft beats sales estimates as Azure growth ticks upward
  Microsoft Corp beat Wall Street estimates for quarterly revenue and profit, powered by a slight uptick in growth in its flagship cloud computing business as the software maker continued to benefit fro…
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• newFacebook says suspected Iranian hackers behind US election threats operated in 2019
  U.S. officials blamed Iran last week for thousands of threatening emails and an online video that purported to show hackers breaking into a voter registration system just days before the U.S. presiden…
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• newShopify to partner with TikTok in bid to woo more merchants to site
  Canadian e-commerce company Shopify said it will partner with TikTok to help its one million-plus merchants more easily advertise their products on the video-sharing app, as it looks to grow its custo…
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• newEarphones from Xiaomi, Realme, Philips and others you can purchase under Rs 599 in Amazon sale
  
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• new​Google Photos adds new editing tools: How to use them to improve your photos and more
  
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• China launches crackdown on mobile web browsers, decries 'chaos' of information
  China's top cyber authority said it would carry out a "rectification" of Chinese mobile internet browsers to address what it called social concerns over the "chaos" of information being published onli…
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• Japan unveils plan to prod carriers to cut cellphone charges
  Japan on Tuesday laid out a plan for reducing consumers' cellphone charges, as the government stepped up its bid to promote competition in the country's telecoms market.
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• Japanese apparel retailer Uniqlo forays into Indian online market
  Japanese global apparel retailer UNIQLO on Tuesday said it has forayed into the Indian online market.
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• Waymo, Daimler partner to make self-driving trucks
  Alphabet Inc's autonomous driving technology development unit, Waymo, and a division of Germany's luxury carmaker Daimler AG have teamed up to make heavy-duty, self-driving trucks in the United States…
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• Iliad wins EU antitrust okay for $4 billion Polish telecoms deal
  French telecoms operator Iliad on Tuesday won EU antitrust clearance for its 3.5-billion-euro ($4.14 billion)acquisition of Polish mobile group Play as it stepped up its overseas expansion.
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• E-commerce companies sell goods worth $4.1 billion in first week of festive sale: Report
  E-commerce companies reported a 55 per cent jump in sale goods to USD 4.1 billion (Rs 29,000 crore) across platforms during the first week (October 15-21) of festive sales, research firm RedSeer said…
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• Tech Mahindra acquires Momenton, Tenzing
  IT major Tech Mahindra on Tuesday said it has acquired Melbourne-based digital enterprise technology firm Momenton and New Zealand-based Tenzing Ltd., a technology consulting company.
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• Facebook India public policy director Ankhi Das resigns
  Facebook Inc’s public policy director for India, South and Central Asia, Ankhi Das, has stepped down to pursue interests in public service, the company said in a statement on Tuesday. The resignatio…
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• AMD to buy Xilinx for $35 billion
  Semiconductor designer Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD) said on Tuesday it would buy Xilinx Inc in a $35 billion all-stock deal, intensifying its battle with Intel Corp in the data center chip market.
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Business Today Tech

• newVu launches flagship Masterpiece TV with 85-inch 4K display
  Vu's new TV flaunts an 85-inch QLED panel and a bezel-less screen. Here's all you need to know about it.
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• newLG Wing with swivel displays, 5G launched in India to counter Galaxy Z Fold 2, Moto Razr
  LG Wing comes with two displays that can be rotated to form a T, and has multiple uses for this arrangement.
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• newTwitter, Facebook, Google CEOs face grilling by Republican senators on anti-conservative bias
  The Senate Commerce Committee has summoned Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and Google's Sundar Pichai to testify for a hearing Wednesday
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• newShivnath Thukral, WhatsApp public policy director to replace Ankhi Das as interim policy head, says report
  Shivnath Thukral, WhatsApp's public policy director, has been asked to take over Das's duties on an interim basis until a replacement can be found, as per a report.
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• newSamsung announces 8K Festival with QLED 8K TVs, price starts at Rs 3,70,000
  Samsung has announced The 8k festival under which it will sell its premium QLED 8K TVs and will offer discounts of up to Rs 6,30,000.
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• newNokia could be planning Nokia 10 with Google Pixel-like features
  HMD Global's strategy for Nokia also includes leveraging its partnership with Google to use it as a marketing tool.
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• newOnePlus Watch delayed again, may not launch this year
  The new OnePlus Smartwatch is likely to borrow its design from the Vivo Watch which was launched in China earlier in September.
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• newBSNL Bharat Fiber revamped plans offer up to 50 Mbps speed under Rs 500, check all plans and availability
  BSNL has revamped its Bharat FIber plans that are now available in nine circles including Chandigarh, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir among others.
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• newiPhone 12 series brings secret reverse wireless charging feature for future AirPods, hints Apple's FCC filing
  As shown by an FCC listing, in addition to being able to being charged by a desktop WPT charger, the iPhone 12 series also supports a WPT charging function at 360 kHz .
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• newLG Wing launching in India today and here is everything to know about it
  LG is launching the T-shaped Wing dual-screen phone in India today and it might shake up the market of Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 2 and Motorola Moto Razr.
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Techmeme

• newAudible adds 100K free podcasts to its catalog, available through the app for all listeners with or without a subscription (Ashley Carman/The Verge)
  Ashley Carman / The Verge:Audible adds 100K free podcasts to its catalog, available through the app for all listeners with or without a subscription  —  It's adding 100,000 podcasts to its catal…
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• newJPMorgan says its digital token JPM Coin is now live for commercial use, as the bank launches new business unit Onyx for its blockchain and crypto efforts (Hugh Son/CNBC)
  Hugh Son / CNBC:JPMorgan says its digital token JPM Coin is now live for commercial use, as the bank launches new business unit Onyx for its blockchain and crypto efforts  —  - JPMorgan Chase sa…
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• With its Xilinx deal, AMD has staked a claim to being a central force in supplying chips for data centers that only five years ago would have seemed improbable (Richard Waters/Financial Times)
  Richard Waters / Financial Times:With its Xilinx deal, AMD has staked a claim to being a central force in supplying chips for data centers that only five years ago would have seemed improbable  —…
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• Strider, which provides data and software to help protect organizations against nation-state directed IP theft, raised $10M Series A led by Koch Disruptive (Daniel McCoy/Wichita Business Journal)
  Daniel McCoy / Wichita Business Journal:Strider, which provides data and software to help protect organizations against nation-state directed IP theft, raised $10M Series A led by Koch Disruptive …
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• Theta Lake, a provider of AI-powered compliance and security tools for collaboration platforms, raised $12.7M Series A led by Lightspeed Venture Partners (Jonathan Shieber/TechCrunch)
  Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch:Theta Lake, a provider of AI-powered compliance and security tools for collaboration platforms, raised $12.7M Series A led by Lightspeed Venture Partners  —  Theta…
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• Sources: the DOJ is scrutinizing Visa's purchase of Plaid, which helps fintech apps connect to users' bank accounts, because it could limit nascent competition (Wall Street Journal)
  Wall Street Journal:Sources: the DOJ is scrutinizing Visa's purchase of Plaid, which helps fintech apps connect to users' bank accounts, because it could limit nascent competition  —  The DOJ, m…
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• Waymo and Daimler Trucks are partnering to build and sell self-driving freight trucks in the US over "the coming years" (Chris Davies/SlashGear)
  Chris Davies / SlashGear:Waymo and Daimler Trucks are partnering to build and sell self-driving freight trucks in the US over “the coming years”  —  Waymo and Daimler Trucks are teaming up o…
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• Report: tensions over profit margins are souring Apple and Foxconn's partnership, leading Foxconn to employ questionable manufacturing and reporting tactics (Juli Clover/MacRumors)
  Juli Clover / MacRumors:Report: tensions over profit margins are souring Apple and Foxconn's partnership, leading Foxconn to employ questionable manufacturing and reporting tactics  —  The relat…
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• Microsoft Teams passed 115M DAUs in Q1, up 53% from April, as Microsoft works to capitalize on remote work trends (Emil Protalinski/VentureBeat)
  Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:Microsoft Teams passed 115M DAUs in Q1, up 53% from April, as Microsoft works to capitalize on remote work trends  —  Microsoft Teams is continuing to ride the rem…
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• In Mark Zuckerberg's prepared testimony for Wednesday's Senate hearing, he advocates for Congress to update Section 230 to "make sure it's working as intended" (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)
  Mike Masnick / Techdirt:In Mark Zuckerberg's prepared testimony for Wednesday's Senate hearing, he advocates for Congress to update Section 230 to “make sure it's working as intended”  —  Thi…
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• Cloud growth drives Microsoft Q1 with server products and cloud services revenue up 22% YoY, Azure up 48% YoY, and Office 365 Commercial revenue up 21% YoY (Tom Warren/The Verge)
  Tom Warren / The Verge:Cloud growth drives Microsoft Q1 with server products and cloud services revenue up 22% YoY, Azure up 48% YoY, and Office 365 Commercial revenue up 21% YoY  —  Microsoft c…
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• Vimeo launches Vimeo Record, a free tool to help teams communicate through video messages that has subscription options for premium features (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)
  Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:Vimeo launches Vimeo Record, a free tool to help teams communicate through video messages that has subscription options for premium features  —  Vimeo Record is a new pro…
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• Microsoft Q1: revenue of $37.2B, up 12% YoY, net income of $13.9B, up 30% YoY, revenue for Intelligent Cloud was $13.0B, up 20% YoY (Microsoft)
  Microsoft:Microsoft Q1: revenue of $37.2B, up 12% YoY, net income of $13.9B, up 30% YoY, revenue for Intelligent Cloud was $13.0B, up 20% YoY  —  REDMOND, Wash. — October 27, 2020 — Microsoft…
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• AMD reports Q3 revenue of $2.8B, up 56% YoY, net income of $390M, up from $120M YoY; Computing and Graphics revenue was $1.67B, up 31% YoY on better Ryzen sales (Ryan Smith/AnandTech)
  Ryan Smith / AnandTech:AMD reports Q3 revenue of $2.8B, up 56% YoY, net income of $390M, up from $120M YoY; Computing and Graphics revenue was $1.67B, up 31% YoY on better Ryzen sales  —  As par…
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• Sources: Apple acquired Barcelona-based Vilynx, a startup specializing in AI and computer vision tech, earlier this year for about $50M (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
  Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:Sources: Apple acquired Barcelona-based Vilynx, a startup specializing in AI and computer vision tech, earlier this year for about $50M  —  - Barcelona-based Vilynx's te…
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Forbes Tech

Techcrunch India

• Top Facebook India executive Ankhi Das leaves the company
  Ankhi Das, a top Facebook executive in India, is leaving the company on Tuesday months after she was alleged to interfere in how the company enforced its hate-speech policy in the country to show favo…
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• India’s FreshToHome raises $121 million to grow its meat and vegetable e-commerce platform
  FreshToHome, an Indian e-commerce startup that sells fresh vegetables, fish, chicken and other kinds of meat, has raised $121 million in a new financing round as the Bangalore-headquartered firm repor…
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• Video creation and editing platform InVideo raises $15 million
  InVideo, a Mumbai-based startup that has built a video creation and editing platform, has raised $15 million as it looks to court more users and customers worldwide. The startup offers a freemium web-…
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• Reliance, Future Group ignore Amazon protest on $3.4B deal
  Reliance Retail, India’s largest retail chain, said on Sunday evening that its proposed deal to acquire Future Group’s assets for a whopping $3.4 billion — against which Amazon has filed a legal…
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• India’s Flipkart buys $204 million stake in Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail
  Flipkart is acquiring a 7.8% stake in Aditya Birla Fashion as the Walmart-owned Indian e-commerce firm makes a further push into the apparel category in one of the world’s largest retail markets. Th…
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• Smartphone shipments rebound to an all-time high in India
  Smartphone shipments reached an all-time high in India in the quarter that ended in September this year, as the world’s second largest handset market remained fully open during the period after init…
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• Netflix to test free weekend-long access in India
  Netflix plans to give users in India access to its service at no charge for a weekend as part of a test to expand its reach in the country, a top company executive said Tuesday. The American streaming…
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• SAIF Partners rebrands as Elevation Capital, secures $400 million for its new India fund
  SAIF Partners has raised $400 million for a new fund and rebranded the 18-year-old influential venture capital firm as it looks to back more early-stage startups in the world’s second largest intern…
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• Uber is hiring hundreds of engineers in India to cut costs
  Uber said on Thursday it is working to hire 225 engineers in India, strengthening its tech team in the key overseas market months after it eliminated thousands of jobs globally. The ride-hailing firm,…
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• WarnerMedia to discontinue HBO and WB TV channels in India, and select other South Asia markets
  WarnerMedia will discontinue HBO and WB TV channels in India, Pakistan, Maldives and Bangladesh later this year as the entertainment conglomerate struggles to find a sustainable business model in Sout…
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• Trump’s latest immigration restrictions are bad news for American workers
  To shutter employment-based visa programs, even temporarily, is to shut out the innovation and entrepreneurialism our economy desperately needs.
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• OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei leaves the company to start a new venture
  Carl Pei, who co-founded the smartphone giant OnePlus in his 20s, has left the company, two sources familiar with the matter told TechCrunch. Pei played an instrumental role in designing the OnePlus s…
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• With thousands of subscribers, The Juggernaut raises $2 million for a South Asian-focused news outlet
  As paid newsletters grow in popularity, Snigdha Sur, the founder of South Asian-focused media company The Juggernaut, has no qualms about avoiding the approach entirely. In October 2017, Sur started T…
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• India’s Razorpay becomes unicorn after new $100 million funding round
  Bangalore-headquartered Razorpay, one of a handful of Indian fintech startups that has demonstrated accelerated growth in recent years, has joined the coveted unicorn club after raising $100 million i…
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• Pakistan bans TikTok over ‘immoral and indecent’ videos
  Pakistan has banned popular short video app TikTok, citing circulation of videos that it deemed “immoral and indecent.” The move comes months after the South Asian country raised serious concerns…
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TechCircle

• Enterprise payments firm Airpay secures Series A funding from Kalaari Capital, others
  Mumbai-based payment services startup Airpay has raised Rs 24 crore ($3.6 million) as part of a Series A round led by Kalaari Capital and existing investors Rakesh and Rajesh Jhunjhunwala. The company…
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• Exclusive: Tiger Global may be part-exiting Flipkart with 3x return
  Tiger Global, the biggest investor in Flipkart, may have struck a deal with Microsoft and other new investors to sell a part of its stake in the e-commerce company in the latest fund-raising round tha…
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• Two Bangalore women give a ‘clean’ twist to co-working spaces
  Co-working spaces – the idea of an open and communicative work culture – is finally picking up in the Indian startup ecosystem. The past two years have witnessed many startups, including Innov8, I…
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• Bombay High Court bars taxi unions from disrupting Uber’s operations
  US-based Uber Technologies Inc’s India subsidiary Uber India Technologies Pvt. Ltd has obtained a restraining order from the Bombay High Court that prevents dissenting taxi union bodies from disrupt…
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• ShopClues looks to raise $75-100 mn in pre-IPO round
  Clues Network Pvt. Ltd, which runs e-commerce company ShopClues, is looking to raise $75-100 million (Rs 490-652 crore) in fresh funding even as it begins discussions with merchant banks for an initia…
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• Exclusive: GrabOnRent close to raising Series A round
  Bangalore-based GrabOnRent Internet Pvt. Ltd, which runs product rental marketplace GrabOnRent, is close to raising $3 million (Rs 19.5 crore) in Series A funding from new and existing investors, two…
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• Flipkart raises $1 bn in down round: Report
  Flipkart Pvt Ltd, the Singapore-based holding company of India’s largest e-commerce marketplace, has reportedly raised $1 billion in a massive fundraising round. The funds were secured at a down rou…
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• Tips to make the Startup culture a resounding success
  The startup culture that is slowly gaining momentum calls for adequate support at various levels to sustain itself. In the absence of the same, the enthusiasm may soon lose its vitality. It is necessa…
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• Snapdeal strategy head Jason Kothari formally takes over at FreeCharge
  E-commerce firm Snapdeal, operated by Jasper Infotech Pvt. Ltd, has appointed Jason Kothari as chief executive officer of its mobile recharge platform FreeCharge. Kothari will also continue his key le…
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• After venture capital, startups taking ‘vendor capital’ for granted
  The bloodletting in the Indian startup ecosystem continues with hotel-booking app RoomsTonite shutting shop on the heels of the Stayzilla fiasco, which is still playing out in the media. I have previo…
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Inc42

• newTata Group Could Pay $700 Mn For Controlling Stake In BigBasket
  Tata Group is looking to acquire a majority stake in online groceries unicorn BigBasket to catch up with other conglomerates…
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• newWhiteHatJr Asked To Remove Five Ads For Infraction Of Advertising Code
  BYJU’S-owned online coding platform WhiteHatJr has been asked by the Advertising Standard Council of India (ASCI), the advertising self-regulatory body,…
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• newFlexiLoans Raises INR 150 Cr In Debt And Equity Financing From Investors
  Mumbai-based digital SME lending platform FlexiLoans has raised INR 150 Cr from multiple investors through a mix of debt and…
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• newBollywood Star Alia Bhatt Follows Katrina Kaif As Investor In Nykaa
  Bollywood actor Alia Bhatt has invested an undisclosed amount in Nykaa through secondary transaction. The development comes a week after…
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• CAIT Raises Red Flag Over Flipkart-Aditya Birla Fashion Deal, Says It Violates FDI Policy
  Traders’ body Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) has raised objections over Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail’s plans to raise…
  - 6 hours ago 28 Oct 20, 2:09am -
• Exclusive: Agritech Startup FreshoKartz Raises INR 10 Cr From RVCF, AWEF
  Rajasthan-based startup FreshoKartz has raised INR 10 Cr in a pre-series A funding from Rajasthan Venture Capital Fund (RVCF) and…
  - 6 hours ago 28 Oct 20, 1:30am -
• [Exclusive] Cryptocurrency This Week: US-Based Crypto Giant Coinbase Planning India Expansion & More
  In a recent development, San Francisco-based cryptocurrency giant Coinbase is looking to expand into the Indian market. However, it’s planned…
  - 15 hours ago 27 Oct 20, 4:35pm -
• Facebook India Policy Head Ankhi Das Quits, Says Decision Not Due To Controversies
  Three months after she was acussed of not applying hate speech rules to posts by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) members,…
  - 17 hours ago 27 Oct 20, 2:30pm -
• In Amazon-Reliance Face Off, Ambani Can’t Ignore Stay On Future Deal
  On Sunday (October 25), Reliance Retail Ventures Limited (RRVL) put up a defiant face and said that it would move…
  - 18 hours ago 27 Oct 20, 2:18pm -
• Revenue-Based Financing Platform GetVantage Raises $5 Mn Seed Funding Led By Chiratae Ventures
  Mumbai-based fintech startup GetVantage has raised $5 Mn of seed funding with a mixture of equity and debt-line it can…
  - 18 hours ago 27 Oct 20, 1:44pm -
• MakeMyTrip’s Second Quarter Revenues Plummet 82%, Loses Spike By 41%
  Online travel agent (OTA) MakeMyTrip has recorded a 69% month-on-month growth in its revenue in its second quarter of the…
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• Why Scaler Academy Moved Away From ISA Model Despite Over 2X Growth This Year
  Edtech startups have been a big and prominent beneficiary of the new remote-first world and this is most evident in…
  - 18 hours ago 27 Oct 20, 1:24pm -
• Agritech Startup Origo Raises INR 35 Cr From Northern Arc Capital, Other Investors
  Gurugram-based agritech startup Origo has raised INR 35 Cr debt from Northern Arc Capital and other investors. The company plans…
  - 19 hours ago 27 Oct 20, 1:07pm -
• FreshToHome Raises Mega Series C Round To Expand In India, Solidify Middle East Presence
  Bengaluru-based fresh fish and meat supply chain and ecommerce startup FreshToHome has raised $121 Mn in a Series C funding…
  - 19 hours ago 27 Oct 20, 12:47pm -
• Retail Tech Startup Arzooo Raises $7.5 Mn Led By WRVI Capital
  Bengaluru based retail tech startup, Arzooo has raised $7.5 Mn in Series A funding led by WRVI Capital. The round…
  - 21 hours ago 27 Oct 20, 10:42am -