KOO Shutting Down: Why India’s Twitter rival is closing operationsKoo, a homegrown social media platform and alternative to Twitter, is shutting down. Co-founders Aprameya Radhakrishna and Mayank Bidawatka...
03 Jul, 2024, 03.21 PM IST
Dailyhunt to acquire India's X alternative Koo: ReportBengaluru-based news content aggregator Dailyhunt is reportedly in advanced talks to acquire Indian start-up Koo, an alternative to social ...
28 Feb, 2024, 10.36 AM IST
Twitter rival Koo integrates ChatGPT to help users create contentKoo users will be able to use ChatGPT directly within the app to help them draft posts about current events, politics or pop culture.
13 Mar, 2023, 03.50 PM IST
Homegrown Koo plans to launch in the US, first market outside IndiaKoo has already started building tools and technology to tweak its India product for a global audience and will shortly begin an outreach a...
16 Nov, 2022, 10.46 AM IST
Koo makes its algorithms public to bring in more transparencyAlgorithms are a set of mathematical rules that help to personalize and improve experiences for users based on their own behaviors and pref...
20 Apr, 2022, 04.01 PM IST
Koo app clocks 1 crore downloads in less than 18 months of operationsAccording to the Koo app, its growth accelerated since February this year with 85 lakh downloads registered in the past six months alone. I...
26 Aug, 2021, 01.34 PM IST
Koo app calls on users to apply for its yellow-tick verification systemCalled 'Eminence', the Koo yellow tick recognises and celebrates a user’s eminence, stature, achievements, abilities and professional stand...
27 Jul, 2021, 02.30 PM IST
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh opens account on KooKoo has seen increased adoption by ruling party leaders and others amid Twitter's frequent run-ins with the government on various issues, i...
09 Jul, 2021, 06.59 PM IST
Koo app submits its first compliance report under India IT rulesKoo is the first social media platform in India to publish the compliance report, as mandated by the India IT rules, co-founder Aprayameya ...
01 Jul, 2021, 09.51 PM IST
Micro blogging platform Koo comes up in Assamese languageWith the launch of Koo App in Assamese by the Chief Minister, many celebrities and thought leaders of the State are expected to join the pl...
16 Jun, 2021, 12.06 PM IST
Koo’s Chinese investor Shunwei Capital exits firmFormer cricketer Javagal Srinath, Bookmyshow founder Ashish Hemrajani, Udaan co-founder Sujeet Kumar, Flipkart CEO Kalyan Krishnamurthy and...
17 Mar, 2021, 03.25 PM IST
Shunwei Capital exits Bombinate Technologies, parent company of Vokal & KooKoo was founded in March 2020 by Radhakrishna and Mayank Bidawatka, as a micro- blogging platform for Indian languages.
17 Mar, 2021, 03.16 PM IST
Neither Left nor Right, Koo perches firmly on the fence“Neither am I right-wing or left-wing, nor is my technology or product,” Koo app’s co-founder Aprameya Radhakrishna says, terming the label...
17 Feb, 2021, 06.11 AM IST
Prakash Javadekar joins indigenous Twitter replica KooThe application was launched 10 months ago but in the last few weeks it saw a massive surge in user base as Union ministers and government ...
12 Feb, 2021, 05.44 PM IST
Indian entrepreneurs back Koo app as Chinese investor exitsThe investment from BookMyShow’s Ashish Hemrajani, Bounce's Vivekananda Hallekere and Zerodha’s Nikhil Kamath is in addition to the $4.1 mi...
12 Feb, 2021, 01.10 PM IST
Koo app CEO denies hacker’s allegations of data leakAccording to a French hacker, who goes by the pseudonym Elliot Alderson on Twitter, Koo app is leaking personal data such as email, date of...
11 Feb, 2021, 08.46 PM IST
Twitter clone Koo, endorsed by govt, trends amid standoffKoo App was trending on Twitter earlier today amid the latter’s ongoing kerfuffle with the Indian government on accounts linked to the ongo...
10 Feb, 2021, 07.22 PM IST