Finance
Former Twitter Asia head Shailesh Rao to lead TPG Growth, Rise Fund in India
US-based buyout firm TPG Capital has named Shailesh Rao as the India and Southeast Asia head of its mid-market and ......
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Google invests $22 mn in JioPhone's operating system provider KaiOS
KaiOS Technologies Inc. the developer of an eponymous feature phone operating system that powers Reliance Industries Ltd's low-cost JioPhone, has ......
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Walmart eyes Flipkart IPO in as early as four years
Indian e-commerce company Flipkart might go for an initial public offering (IPO) in as early as four years if minority ......
General
Alphabet may pick minority stake in Flipkart; Numetal ups bid for Essar Steel
Google’s parent Alphabet Inc. may invest $1-2 billion (Rs 6,672-13,345 crore) in homegrown e-commerce major Flipkart to pick up a ......
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Google leads Series C funding round in fashion portal Fynd
Mumbai-based online fashion marketplace Fynd, run by Shopsense Technologies Pvt. Ltd, has closed its Series C round of funding led ......
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Regulator fines Google for 'search bias' based on BharatMatrimony complaint
India's antitrust watchdog on Thursday imposed a Rs 1.36 billion ($21.17 million) fine on Google for "search bias" and abuse ......
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Google's Motion Stills app to get new augmented-reality feature
Alphabet Inc.'s Google said it was releasing a new augmented reality (AR) feature for its app Motion Stills that would ......
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Microsoft lures enterprises with offer to buy out existing cloud storage contracts
Technology giant Microsoft is effectively offering to buy out existing cloud storage contracts of prospective customers if they switch to ......
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Microsoft text-to-speech support gets 6 new languages, including Tamil
Tech firm Microsoft Corp has added six languages to text-to-speech support -- one of them Tamil -- bringing the total ......
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Microsoft tops Amazon in cloud revenue for Oct-Dec 2017
Microsoft’s hybrid cloud strategy seems to be paying off as the Satya Nadella-led company topped Jeff Bezos-led Amazon’s cloud services ......