Will Elon Musk reinstate Kangana Ranaut's Twitter account?Since the day he took over Twitter, Elon Musk has been restoring some banned accounts and making free expression a right for all Twitter us...
22 Nov, 2022, 09.41 AM 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
Delhi Metro signs up on homemade social media KooThe urban transporter had entered the social media in 2018 and has been actively engaging with its stakeholders via these platforms, offici...
23 May, 2022, 06.14 PM IST
Koo CEO Aprameya Radhakrishna woos Elon Musk to join the Indian startup’s boardIn a tweet, Aprameya Radhakrishna, said "We're young, agile and dreaming big! Koo being built as the future of social media @kooindia. Your...
11 Apr, 2022, 01.22 PM IST
Koo takes a jibe at Twitter; says it has had an edit button for over 20 months nowThis comes a day after Tesla CEO Elon Musk snagged a seat on the Twitter board and held a poll on the platform asking users if they'd like ...
06 Apr, 2022, 09.27 PM IST
Koo to raise headcount to 500 in 1 year; hiring for engineering, product, community managementKoo currently has around 200 people, and looks to reach a headcount of 500 in the next one year as they hire primarily in areas such as eng...
12 Sep, 2021, 12.36 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
Govt of Nigeria creates official account on Koo following Twitter banThe government's first post was to do with a documentary on Nigeria that will be aired on June 12 in commemoration of Democracy Day.
10 Jun, 2021, 01.19 PM IST
Koo eyes Nigeria market after Twitter banThe developments came after Nigeria indefinitely suspended Twitter's activities on Friday after the social media platform deleted a tweet f...
05 Jun, 2021, 06.54 PM IST
Koo’s valuation rises five times in three months in new funding roundTiger Global is leading Koo app’s new funding round, while there are two new investors—IIFL’s venture capital fund and South Korea's Mirae ...
26 May, 2021, 08.45 AM 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
Amid govt vs Twitter row, A-listers go KooAs the government’s battle intensifies with Twitter, Koo — a local language-based microblogging platform, is gaining traction as an “Indian...
11 Feb, 2021, 09.56 AM IST
Koo app downloads surge as tensions escalate between Twitter and GovtIn the last seven days alone, Twitter's homegrown rival Koo app has seen a ten-fold increase in downloads leading to a cumulative three mil...
11 Feb, 2021, 08.18 AM 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
Kangana Ranaut says Twitter's time is up, shares plans to move to 'home-grown' Koo appThe actress said she was 'absolutely thrilled' about the new app.
10 Feb, 2021, 07.05 PM IST
MeitY, other departments turn to microblogging site Koo as Twitter fails to follow government diktatKoo said it has so far verified handles of MeitY, MyGov, Digital India, India Post, National Informatics Centre (NIC), National Institute o...
09 Feb, 2021, 07.20 PM IST