2024-06-01
Jio Financial Service Launches Beta Version Of App; Highlights Global Ambitions | Details JFS on Thursday launched its beta version of the financial app. The app is set to compete with the likes of #Google & #Amazon in the market. #Jio #MukeshAmbani #JioFinance [video]
TechCrunch
Jio Financial Services, part of Reliance, launches the JioFinance app to provide digital banking, bill payments, and other services in a crowded Indian market
How to use, top features, more Moneycontrol : Jio Financial Services launches ‘JioFinance’ app in beta version Business Today : Jio Financial launches beta version of JioFinance ap...
2023-12-29
#TataSons Chairman emeritus #RatanTata, who turned 86 today, will sell 77,900 shares of kidswear startup #FirstCry in its upcoming IPO in 2024. The business tycoon had picked up a 0.02% stake for Rs 66 lakh in Brainbees Solution, which operates omnichannel businesses of kidswear... [image]
TechCrunch
Filing: FirstCry, India's biggest e-commerce platform for mother and baby products, aims to raise $218M in its IPO; source: the startup wants a ~$4B valuation
Manish Singh / TechCrunch :
2023-09-18
In the tech industry's artificial-intelligence race, Microsoft is taking an unusual tack: pouring billions into a tiny, unproven startup, rather than relying on homegrown technology and in-house teams. https://www.livemint.com/...
Wall Street Journal
A profile of Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott, whose OpenAI-or-bust strategy rankled some staff who found their AI projects pushed aside and their resources curtailed
2023-09-17
In the tech industry's artificial-intelligence race, Microsoft is taking an unusual tack: pouring billions into a tiny, unproven startup, rather than relying on homegrown technology and in-house teams. https://www.livemint.com/...
Wall Street Journal
A profile of Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott, whose OpenAI-or-bust strategy rankled some staff who found their AI projects pushed aside and their resources curtailed
Chief Technology Officer Kevin Scott spearheaded the tech titan's unlikely partnership with OpenAI — In the tech industry's artificial-intelligence race,
2023-06-07
The report, based on surveys of consumers and investors, said that digital consumption is driving growth in key internet economy sectors, such as e-commerce, online travel, food delivery, and ride hailing. https://www.livemint.com/...
Livemint
Google, Temasek, and Bain report: India's internet economy to hit $1T by 2030, up from $175B in 2022, accounting for 12-13% of India's GDP, up from 4-5% in 2022
Executive Summary A continued shift in consumer and merchant behaviour … Temasek : Smaller cities key to India's digital decade Nidhi Singal / Business Today : India's digital econ...
2023-05-01
#Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey — once a supporter of #ElonMusk's $44 billion acquisition of the site — is now offering sharp criticism of the new owner and his handling of the deal. https://www.livemint.com/...
Techdirt
Six months after Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter, an overview of its alternatives, including Mastodon, Bluesky, and Nostr, and how they might evolve and improve
Today is six months since Elon took over Twitter and began this bizarre speedrun of the content moderation learning curve …
#Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey — once a supporter of #ElonMusk's $44 billion acquisition of the site — is now offering sharp criticism of the new owner and his handling of the deal. https://www.livemint.com/...
Washington Post
On Bluesky, Jack Dorsey criticizes Elon Musk's leadership of Twitter, saying “it all went south” and Musk should have paid the $1B breakup fee to ditch the deal
2022-04-27
“Rizing's complementary consulting capabilities and strong client relationships will significantly boost our existing offering, creating one of the most differentiated SAP services in the marketplace,” Wipro CEO said. https://www.livemint.com/...
Bloomberg
Wipro agreed to acquire SAP consulting firm Rizing Intermediate Holdings for $540M; Wipro expects the deal to close before June 30
2021-08-28
Problems with Azure are especially troubling, because Microsoft and outside security experts have been pushing companies to abandon most of their own infrastructure and rely on the cloud for more security https://www.livemint.com/...
Reuters
Microsoft warns thousands of cloud customers that a now-fixed Azure Cosmos vulnerability might have exposed databases, but it saw no evidence it was exploited
Microsoft (MSFT.O) on Thursday warned thousands of its cloud computing customers, including some of the world's largest companies …
2021-08-27
Problems with Azure are especially troubling, because Microsoft and outside security experts have been pushing companies to abandon most of their own infrastructure and rely on the cloud for more security https://www.livemint.com/...
Reuters
Microsoft warns thousands of cloud customers that a now-fixed Azure Cosmos vulnerability might have exposed databases, but it saw no evidence it was exploited
Microsoft (MSFT.O) on Thursday warned thousands of its cloud computing customers, including some of the world's largest companies …
2021-06-23
Microsoft's shares rose as much as 1.1% to $265.64 on Tuesday in New York, enough for the software company to join Apple Inc. as one of only two companies trading at such a lofty value https://www.livemint.com/...
Bloomberg
Microsoft has become the second public US company to reach a $2T market value, after Apple did in August 2020 and two years after hitting its first $1T in value
- Shares of the software giant have gained 19% so far this year — Only Apple and Saudi Aramco had hit $2 trillion in value
#Microsoft has gained 19% so far this year, outperforming #Apple and #Amazon, as investors piled into the stock on expectations of long-term growth for both earnings and revenue, and expansion in areas like machine learning and cloud computing. https://www.livemint.com/...
Bloomberg
Microsoft has become the second public US company to reach a $2T market value, after Apple did in August 2020 and two years after hitting its first $1T in value
- Shares of the software giant have gained 19% so far this year — Only Apple and Saudi Aramco had hit $2 trillion in value
2020-09-02
.@unacademy now has 30 million registered users and 350,000 paying subscribers, almost four times as many as in February https://www.livemint.com/...
Bloomberg
India-based online learning service Unacademy raises $150M Series F led by SoftBank's Vision Fund 2 at a $1.45B valuation, tripling a $510M valuation from Feb.
Saritha Rai / Bloomberg :
2020-04-26
Feishu — a mash-up of Slack, Skype and Google Docs — competes in China against similar offerings from other Chinese companies https://www.livemint.com/...
Bloomberg
Sources: China orders ByteDance to temporarily remove its Slack-style office app Feishu, after discovering content from banned sites like Facebook and Twitter
a mash-up of Slack, Skype and Google Docs — competes in China against similar offerings from other Chinese companies https://www.livemint.com/... Zheping Huang / @pingroma : Scoop:...
2020-04-25
Feishu — a mash-up of Slack, Skype and Google Docs — competes in China against similar offerings from other Chinese companies https://www.livemint.com/...
Bloomberg
Sources: China orders ByteDance to temporarily remove its Slack-style office app Feishu, after discovering content from banned sites like Facebook and Twitter
- Regulators found the app allowed access to Facebook, Twitter — The decision deals a blow to ByteDance's internet ambitions
2019-12-14
While internet blockage was extended by 48 hours in Assam, Delhi saw a massive protest against the amended law for the second day https://www.livemint.com/...
TechCrunch
India shuts down internet in two states that are home to 32M people, after protests over a citizenship bill, as Kashmir shutdown continues into its fourth month
Manish Singh / TechCrunch :