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Facebook strikes global licensing deal with Indian music label Saregama
Facebook said on Wednesday it has entered into a global deal with Saregama, one of India’s oldest and largest music…
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Facebook and PayPal invest in Southeast Asian ride-hailing giant GoJek
Facebook and PayPal have made investments in GoJek, joining Google and Tencent among other high-profile technology firms that have backed…
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A service that detects ‘China apps’ goes viral in India
The app’s name says it all: Remove China Apps. Developed by a self-proclaimed “Indian startup” named OneTouch AppLabs, Remove China…
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Danggeun Market, the South Korean secondhand marketplace app, raises $33 million Series C
Danggeun Market, the startup behind Karrot, South Korea’s largest neighborhood marketplace and networking app, announced today that it has raised…
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India rejects Walmart-owned Flipkart’s proposed foray into food retail business
The Indian government has rejected Flipkart’s proposal to enter the food retail business in a setback for Walmart, which owns…
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After Facebook, tech majors Google and Microsoft reportedly considering to buy stakes in Indian telecom firms
Weeks after Facebook acquired a 9.9% stake in India’s Reliance Jio Platforms, two more American firms- Google and Microsoft are…
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Ola Electric acquires Etergo, to launch own line of electric two wheelers this year
Ola Electric, the EV business that spun out of the ride-hailing giant Ola last year, has acquired an Amsterdam-based electric…
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Indonesian startup Delman raises $1.6 million to help companies clean up data
Delman, a Jakarta-based data management startup, has raised $1.6 million in seed funding. The round was led by Intudo Ventures,…
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India’s contact tracing app is going open source
India said it will publicly release the source code of its contact tracing app, Aarogya Setu, in a relief to…
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