Manish Singh

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Blinkit signals costly battle ahead in Indian quick commerce market

Zomato’s quick commerce unit Blinkit is accelerating its expansion and expects continued losses as competition int...
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Apple brings Store app to Indian market

Apple launched its dedicated Apple Store app in India on Friday, deepening its retail presence in the world’s most...
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Amazon to acquire Indian fintech Axio in credit push

Amazon has agreed to acquire Indian buy now pay later startup Axio, deepening its push into financial services in one of...
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SoftBank veteran hunts for profits in payments infrastructure plumbing

Former SoftBank exec Akshay Naheta's startup, Distributed Technologies Research, is trying to bridge the gap between ban...
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North Korea stole over $659M in crypto heists during 2024, deploys fake job seekers

A joint international statement provides the first official confirmation that North Korea was behind the $235M hack of W...
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Groww, India’s biggest trading app, prepares for IPO

Groww, India’s largest retail stockbroker, is positioning itself to file for an IPO in 10-12 months and is seeking...
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India’s digital payments strategy is cutting out Visa and Mastercard

As digital payments morph into strategic assets, India is offering a template for other nations seeking to reduce depend...
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VLC tops 6 billion downloads, previews AI-generated subtitles

VLC media player, the popular open-source software developed by nonprofit VideoLAN, has topped 6 billion downloads world...
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Flipkart taps Dunzo founder to lead quick commerce push

Flipkart has hired Kabeer Biswas, co-founder of Indian delivery startup Dunzo, as the Walmart-owned e-commerce group exp...
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Microsoft backs its $3B AI push in India with public and private sector deals

Microsoft announced a sweeping series of artificial intelligence partnerships across India’s core sectors on Wedne...
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Microsoft plans to invest $3B in AI, cloud in India

Microsoft plans to invest $3 billion to expand its artificial intelligence and cloud services in India. The firm, which ...
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Hindustan Unilever in talks to acquire Peak XV-backed Minimalist for up to $350M

Consumer goods giant Hindustan Unilever is in advanced talks to acquire four-year-old direct-to-consumer startup Minimal...
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Cloudflare’s VPN app among half-dozen pulled from Indian app stores

More than half-a-dozen VPN apps, including Cloudflare’s widely-used 1.1.1.1, have been pulled from India’s A...
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Accel closes $650 million for new India fund

Accel has raised $650 million for its eighth India fund as the U.S. venture firm expands its investment strategy in the ...
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Accel closes $650 million for new India fund

Accel has raised $650 million for its eighth India fund as the U.S. venture firm expands its investment strategy in the ...
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India again delays rules to break PhonePe-Google Pay duopoly

India has once again pushed back a contentious plan to limit big technology companies’ control of the nation&#8217...
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India lifts WhatsApp payment curbs

India has removed restrictions on WhatsApp’s payments service in a significant victory for Meta in its largest mar...
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Gupshup investor cuts value of its stake again, implying new valuation of $486M

Asset management firm Fidelity slashed the estimated worth of its stake in business messaging platform Gupshup by anothe...
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India’s mobile payments dilemma

India’s payments regulator is set to decide as early as Monday whether to curb the dominance of Walmart’s Ph...
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PharmEasy investor cuts value of its stake drastically, implying new valuation of $456M

Indian online pharmacy PharmEasy is now being valued at about $456 million after its investor Janus Henderson said in a ...
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X jacks up Premium+ prices by 37.5%, hits some markets harder

X is raising prices for its top-tier subscription service, Premium+, by 37.5% to $22 a month, marking the largest price ...
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Indian startups raised 32% fewer rounds in 2024 as VCs got selective

Indian startups raised 32% fewer funding rounds in 2024 compared to last year, according to data intelligence platform T...
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India’s MobiKwik surges 82% in market debut

Shares in digital payments firm MobiKwik surged 82% to ₹507.5 ($6) on their first day of trading, as the Indian fintech ...
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Shein must cede Indians’ data, control of local ops to re-enter India

Shein must surrender all data of Indian customers and control of its local operations to its partner, Reliance Retail, a...
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Alphabet-backed Indian lender files for $171M IPO

Aye Finance, a lender targeting small- and medium-sized businesses in India, is seeking to raise $171 million from its i...
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Google names its new India chief

Google has appointed Preeti Lobana to lead its India business, filling a key position that had been vacant since Sanjay ...
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Zomato faces $95 million India tax bill

Zomato, India’s top food delivery and quick commerce platform, has been slapped with a tax bill of $94.5 million. ...
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SolarSquare raises $40 million in India’s largest solar venture round

SolarSquare has raised $40 million in a round led by Lightspeed in what is the largest venture round in India’s so...
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HongShan, Peak XV back stablecoin-powered neobank KAST

Peak XV and HongShan, the Indian and Chinese investment firms that split from powerhouse Sequoia last year, have co-led ...
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Software testing platform LambdaTest secures $38 million for AI push

LambdaTest, a cloud-based software testing platform, has raised $38 million in a funding round as it looks to expand its...
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