2025-07-17
India's second-largest telco, Airtel, has partnered with Perplexity to offer a free 12-month Perplexity Pro subscription to all its 360 million customers. This partnership comes just months after Paytm integrated Perplexity's search into its app in February. [image]
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Perplexity offers a free one-year Perplexity Pro subscription, which costs $20/month, to 360M users of Bharti Airtel, India's second-largest telecom operator
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2025-04-06
India has been the ChatGPT app's largest market by monthly active users since its launch in May 2023, but ranks 21st in in-app purchases, according to Sensor Tower. [image]
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SensorTower: users in India have spent $8M on ChatGPT subscriptions through IAP since 2023, not including web app purchases, versus ~$330M spent by US users
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2025-04-05
India has been the ChatGPT app's largest market by monthly active users since its launch in May 2023, but ranks 21st in in-app purchases, according to Sensor Tower. [image]
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SensorTower: users in India have spent $8M on ChatGPT subscriptions through IAP since 2023, not including web app purchases, versus ~$330M spent by US users
For years, U.S.-based tech companies have tapped into India's vast and increasing internet user base for growth. OpenAI is no exception.
2025-03-13
New with @lorenzofb: Kerala state police arrested an administrator of Garantex, a Russia-based crypto exchange sanctioned by the U.S., under India's extradition law. The move comes just days after the U.S. DOJ accused the suspect of personally approving cybercriminal-linked
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Indian police arrest Aleksej Besciokov, the co-founder of Garantex, a Russian crypto exchange sanctioned by the EU and the US, at the request of US authorities
including terrorist [image] @secretservice : #ICYMI Our agency dealt a major blow to money launderers and cybercriminals, seizing website domains linked to Russian crypto exchange ...
2024-07-03
Initially projected as India's answer to Twitter/X, Koo is reportedly shutting down after months of struggling to raise fresh funds and find a new owner.
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Koo, an Indian rival to X that had raised $60M+ from Tiger Global, Accel, and others, shuts down after last-resort acquisition talks with Dailyhunt collapsed
The Indian social media platform Koo, which positioned itself as a competitor to Elon Musk's X, is ceasing operations …
2023-11-05
One of the primary reasons for Google introducing its enhanced real-time code-level scanning feature is to address the issue of predatory loan apps. However, based on our testing, it is not yet the ultimate solution for this problem and has room for improvement.
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Hands-on with Google's real-time scanning in Play Protect for sideloaded apps: it didn't restrict five predatory loan apps and two fake apps from installing
Here's our hands-on review of the new Android security feature — Android's in-built security engine Google Play Protect …