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Singapore State Investment Body Temasek Sees Dip In Portfolio Value
Singapore’s state investment body Temasek shared on Monday that its portfolio value had come down over the past year as it offloaded assets amid uncertain macroeconomic conditions globally. The firm...
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B2B Marketplace Moglix Raises New Funding From Tiger Global, Sequoia
B2B industrial goods marketplace Moglix has raised $60 Mn (approximately INR 412 Cr) in its latest round led by Tiger Global Management and Sequoia Capital. Hong Kong-based Composite Capital joined the...
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Banks Float Credit Card Cashbacks With Successful Startups As Cobrands
Indian banks and the leading companies from the startup ecosystem have joined hands to improve access to credit and further expand the fast developing credit card ecosystem in India. Recently, Flipkart...
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eSIM Shipments Jump As Smartphones, IoT Devices And Automobiles Embrace New Tech
Shipments of embedded SIM (eSIM) cards has ballooned in the last year, a research paper by Counterpoint Research showed. eSIMs is basically a small chip inside your phone and works in a similar way to...
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Government Issues Social Media And Internet Usage Guidelines For Employees
Ministry of Home Affairs has issued internet usage guidelines for government officials at the centre. Reportedly, government employees have been cautioned against accessing social media on official...
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Funding Galore: Indian Startup Funding Of The Week [8-13 July]
We bring to you the latest edition of Funding Galore: Indian Startup Funding Of The Week! One of the biggest funding rounds in the Indian startup ecosystem was Bengaluru-based edtech unicorn BYJU’S...
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Facebook Looking At Massive $5 Bn FTC Fine In The US
Still reeling from the Cambridge Analytica scandal from 2018 and dealing with a slew of privacy-related issues, there’s more trouble on the horizon for Facebook with a monetary fine set to be announced...
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Swiggy Looking To Raise $500 Mn With Its Latest Funding Round
Even as speculation is rife that Swiggy is looking to invest $100 Mn in its micro-delivery vertical, the company is also looking to raise funding for the next phase of expansion. Swiggy is already...
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World Youth Skills Day: Over 75 Lakh People Upskilled Under Skill India Mission
The Skill India Mission has been a cornerstone policy in the Indian government’s digitisation efforts and the subsequent technological revolution across the economy, particularly in the startup...
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Twitter Adds Indian Regional Language Support As It Looks To Boost Usage In...
Just a few months after appointing Manish Maheshwari as Twitter India head, the micro-blogging network has now redesigned its website to help users personalise content in seven Indian languages —...
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India Plans To Link All Public WiFi Hotspots To Give Citizens Seamless...
India’s Department of Telecommunications has reportedly approved plans to implement WiFi interoperability that will allow users to stay connected across all public WiFi hotspots in India when users are...
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Tinder Bypasses Google Play In-App Billing On Android, But What About User...
When it comes to apps that bring in revenue for Google Play Store and Apple App Store, dating platform Tinder is usually at the top of the list. In fact, Tinder is the top-grossing app on the Google...
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai Gave Up Pay Hike By Shunning Big Equity Awards
In a world of skyhigh CEO salaries and protests over pay inequality across various tiers at mega corporation, Google’s Sundar Pichai may be an exception. The Indian-origin Google CEO has been leading...
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Nagpur Startups In The Spotlight: How The City Has Emerged As A Budding...
Maharashtra has a vibrant startup ecosystem, with a total of 2,787 startups registered in the state, out of over 14,565 under the government’s startup-centric programmes. It was ranked first in terms...
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GST On Electric Vehicles: GST Council To Finalise Tax Cut to 5% Soon
The tax on electric vehicles is set to be slashed from 12% to 5% as a specially-convened GST Council meeting will take up the proposal on July 25 via video conference . The committee has, by and large,...
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It’s Official: India Govt Committee Recommends Ban On Cryptocurrency
As many cryptocurrency startups and enthusiasts feared, the Indian government’s inter-ministerial committee (IMC) has submitted its report on the use of virtual currencies in India, which recommends a...
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Reliance Jio Backs Data Localisation To Prevent Cyber Attacks
Telecom unit of Reliance Industries Ltd, Reliance Jio, emphasised on the requirement and a framework for data localisation to ensure cyberattacks are prevented. Jio has asked its corporates to take...
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Zeta’s Valuation Jumps To $300 Mn With Series C Funding From Sodexo
Bhavin Turakhia-led fintech startup Zeta has secured an undisclosed amount in Series C funding round from Sodexo Benefits and Rewards (BRS). According to the company, the funding round has been raised...
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai Gave Up Pay Hike By Shunning Big Equity Awards
In a world of skyhigh CEO salaries and protests over pay inequality across various tiers at mega corporation, Google’s Sundar Pichai may be an exception. The Indian-origin Google CEO has been leading...
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BIGShift Kicks Off In Style: Celebrating Chandigarh’s Rising Startups,...
“When you are at an ideation stage you don’t attract investor attention. At that stage, you go for FFF- friends, family and fools. Either your friends and family believe in you or you can get them to...
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