Tata Pay bags payment aggregator licence; Binny Bansal’s new startup OppDoorHappy 2024! Welcome to the first edition of ETtech’s Top 5 in the new year. Tata group’s digital payments business, Tata Payments, has secu...
02 Jan, 2024, 07.56 PM IST
ETtech Explainer: Esports set to reach new heights in India in 2024Organisers expect on-ground events to continue to gain in popularity. Game publisher Krafton, which disbursed Rs 3.8 crore in 2023, also sa...
02 Jan, 2024, 06.47 PM IST
US video game developer Riot Games to debut international esports tournament in IndiaThe 'Convergence' event will be co-sponsored by Lenovo and Intel, and it will have a prize pool of $50,000 for the winners. The event would...
12 Dec, 2023, 01.43 PM IST
Game theory: How fortunes of India's gaming industry turned from being a sunrise sectorFrom being a sunrise sector to a stressed one, fortunes of India’s gaming industry have quickly turned. ET looks at what is driving the bul...
04 Dec, 2023, 03.04 PM IST
JetSynthesys to host India’s largest esports tournament next weekThe Global e-Cricket Premier League (GEPL) is touted to be the first made-in-India esports league to scale up to the level of Krafton Inc’s...
28 Nov, 2023, 09.28 PM IST
I-T lens on Rs 10,000 crore tax evasion by online sellers; ED show cause notice to Byju’sThe income tax department reportedly uncovered tax evasion of around Rs 10,000 crore over three years by online retailers using social medi...
22 Nov, 2023, 08.13 AM IST
Game on: Casters beat players in esports winningsEsports casters like Ocean Sharma, Varun John, Sudhen Wahengbam, Kaavya Karthikeyan and many others are being well rewarded as hosts of tou...
22 Nov, 2023, 12.01 AM IST
New playbook: Online gaming companies, brands target offline streaming in IndiaGaming companies such as Krafton, Nodwin Gaming and Jio Games along with brands such as iQOO, Lenovo and Red Bull are investing large sums ...
21 Oct, 2023, 06.01 AM IST
Game on: Krafton’s BGMI return revvs up Indian esports sceneThe lifting of the BGMI block on a trial basis in May has streaming platforms and tournament organisers alike projecting a bump in viewersh...
28 Jun, 2023, 03.37 PM IST
Rooter inks exclusive deal with esports team GodLikeThe partnership will provide Rooter exclusive live streaming rights for popular games like Battlegrounds Mobile India (BGMI), Free Fire, Ca...
25 May, 2022, 09.54 AM IST
Rooter picks up media rights for esports tournament organiser SkyesportsRooter, one of India’s largest game streaming platforms, has acquired the media rights for all of Skyesports’ IPs in one of the largest med...
07 Mar, 2022, 03.27 PM IST
The hottest job in tech startupsTwo decades ago, it seemed you couldn't walk down a street in Bengaluru without bumping into a software engineer. Today, one of the hottest...
13 Aug, 2021, 06.33 AM IST
JetSynthesys acquires Skyesports to boost presence in esportsThe Sachin Tendulkar and Adar Poonawalla backed JetSynthesys will have a 65% stake in Jet Skyesports Gaming, the new entity.
12 Aug, 2021, 06.23 PM IST