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An Indian upstart, co-founded by a group of journalists, that seeks to disrupt how people follow news and what they consume has raised capital as it prepares to accelerate its growth and broaden its offering.
The Signal is aiming to serve a need for the modern pace of life...
Sunstone, a higher education startup that collaborates with academic institutions to help upskill their students for employability, has raised $35 million in a new financing round as it looks to expand to more Indian cities.
Sunstone founders said Friday WestBridge Capital led the startup’s Series C financing round. Alteria...
Telecom operators in India bid slightly over $19 billion in the government auction for the 5G airwaves, the highest from them in any spectrum sale, as the world’s second-largest wireless market readies the rollout of improved and faster voice and data speeds.
Reliance Jio Infocomm, Bharti Airtel and Vodafone...
India blocks Krafton’s battle-royale game BGMI two years after PUBG ban – TechCrunch
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Google has pulled the popular battle royale game Battlegrounds Mobile India, more popularly known as BGMI, from its Play Store in India after a government order, a year after developer Krafton launched the app following a ban on its other similar title PUBG in the South Asian market....
Web3 digital identity startup Unstoppable Domains raises funds at $1 billion valuation – TechCrunch
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Unstoppable Domains, a popular blockchain naming system provider and identity platform, is the latest crypto startup to become a unicorn.
The identity platform, which has amassed over 2.5 million registered NFT domains, said on Wednesday it has raised $65 million in its Series A funding round at a valuation...
India receives $18 billion bids for 5G auction, expects rollout in September – TechCrunch
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India received bids worth $18 billion on the first day of an auction for the 5G airwaves from tycoons including Mukesh Ambani and Gautam Adani as the race begins for faster data in the world’s second largest internet market.
Telecom Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw told reporters on Tuesday evening that...
Shares of Zomato dropped as much as 14.3% on Monday to an all-time low after the end of the lock-in period for investors who had stakes in the company prior to the initial public offering in the latest setback for retail investors backing the Indian food delivery firm.
The...
Online insurer Policybazaar says customer data was exposed by ‘unauthorized access’ – TechCrunch
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Indian online insurer Policybazaar said on Sunday that it was subject to an unspecified security incident but found that “no significant” customer data was exposed — or in other words, some was.
Policybazaar, which sells a range of insurance coverage, said in a stock exchange filing that its IT...
Facebook parent Meta eyes investment in Indian startup Better Opinions – TechCrunch
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Facebook-parent Meta, which counts India as its largest market by users, is gearing up to make its third startup investment in the South Asian market.
The American social media group, which invested in social commerce Meesho in 2019 and online learning platform Unacademy in 2020, is in talks to...
Indian lawmaker calls for investigation into edtech giant Byju’s finances – TechCrunch
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Karti Chidambaram, an Indian lawmaker, has called for an investigation into the finances of Byju’s, the country’s most valuable startup, for not submitting its statements for the financial year that ended in March 2021, which he alleged violates a local law, and other “loopholes.”
Chidambaram, a Member of Parliament...