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 partners with India Post Payments Bank to drive financial inclusion in remote citiesKoo said the memorandum of understanding (MoU) aims to bring together the synergies of both Koo and IPPB to drive 'financial inclusion' and...
13 Sep, 2022, 01.11 PM IST
IIT-Delhi, Koo partner to create public awareness on air pollutionThe partnership – through the Foundation for Innovation and Technology Transfer (FITT), an industry-academia interface organization for IIT...
07 Aug, 2022, 05.45 PM IST
Koo signs MoU with Telangana government, to open development center in HyderabadKoo was launched in March 2020. The objective was to enable users to express themselves online in their mother tongue. Currently, it is ava...
20 Jul, 2022, 11.35 PM IST
Koo bets on rapid user base growth to overtake TwitterThe platform, which is currently available in India in 10 languages, including English, has operations in Nigeria, and is looking at more m...
13 May, 2022, 11.39 PM 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 takes the Facebook route, set to launch advisory boardThe company has been growing at a fast clip over the past few years and expanding significantly in regional languages. It is also looking t...
16 Mar, 2022, 07.52 PM IST
Transparency on algorithms needs to be conscious step for social media platforms: Koo co-founderWhile self-regulation should be the first step, separate instructions are needed in cases where platforms are not living up to the expectat...
21 Nov, 2021, 01.10 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
Daily Hindi posts doubled in four months: KooThe company said conversations on Koo-Hindi range from social causes, political views, Bollywood, sports, current affairs, festivities, day...
08 Sep, 2021, 03.04 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
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
Koo in talks to raise funds; hopes to close a deal in 3-4 monthsKoo is looking at raising 'more than what was raised in the last round'
14 May, 2021, 03.52 PM IST
Will double headcount; lot of headroom for growing user base: KooKoo co-founder Aprameya Radhakrishna said the platform with its current user base of 6 million has a lot of headroom for growth
09 May, 2021, 03.15 PM 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
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
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