Fintechs' secure credit play; New Jersey turns IT hubHappy Monday! Fintech companies like Cred, PhonePe and Paytm are seeking partnerships with NBFCs to enter the secured credit market. This a...
Sachin Bansal’s Navi eyes $2B valuation; Byju’s seeks arbitration in investor battleSachin Bansal-promoted Navi Technologies is in the market to secure external funding at a valuation of around $2 billion. Details of this a...
KKR’s big bet on BookMyShow; Free Fire Max tops esports sweepstakesPrivate equity fund KKR is in advanced talks to pick up a significant minority stake in online ticket-booking platform BookMyShow. This and...
Free Fire Max beats BGMI to bag India’s favourite esports tagAs per data from media analytics platform Comscore, Free Fire Max first overtook BGMI in terms of unique visitors in August 2022, just a mo...
New-age firms ride market surge in buoyant week; and other top tech, startup stories this weekOn Friday, the 30-stock benchmark index BSE Sensex ended at a fresh all-time high of 72,568 points. In the broader buoyancy of the stock ma...
Ecommerce roll-up firms in distress; how Krafton scripted BGMI returnThrasio-style ecommerce roll-up companies such as Goat Brand Labs are struggling to survive amid an overall funding squeeze. This and more ...
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...
Game streaming firms plan global expansion; Razorpay’s $300-mn tax bill for reverse flippingTwo of India’s major gaming-focused streaming platforms are eyeing expansion in international markets to take on bigger rivals such as YouT...
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...
Byju’s sighs, in relief; Prosus writes off ZestMoney investment; and BGMI’s India returnAfter a long time, it was Christmas at Byju’s as a US court rejected a plea by its Term Loan B (TLB) lenders to probe a $500-million transf...
Smartphone sales plateau in rural areas; Nvidia nears $1 trillion market cap riding AI waveAffordability issues, coupled with the affinity for feature phones, have led to smartphone sales stagnating in rural areas since mid-2021 —...
Zomato trims Q4 losses, aims to turn fully profitable in a year; Delhivery quarterly revenue slips, loss widensTwo important financial results were released today in the listed technology world. Zomato’s revenue rose 70% as it cut losses during the f...
Women gamers break glass ceiling but bumps continue to dot their pathwayThe number of women who have taken to online gaming has gone up over the past few years but they continue to suffer harassment online.
BGMI to be back in India soon? Here's everything you need to knowBattlegrounds Mobile India (BGMI) has been banned from the Google Play Store and Apple App Store in July 2022.
India has blocked 348 apps in total for ‘unauthorised data collection’: govtSome of the blocked apps were developed in China, minister of state Rajeev Chandrasekhar told Parliament in response to a question on Augus...
Is Meta losing its way?The company is pouring billions into its virtual reality division in hopes of Big-Banging the metaverse into existence, but back in the rea...
India blocks Krafton's Battlegrounds Mobile India on concerns over data sharing in ChinaThe Indian government has not publicly announced the blocking. But the app was removed from Alphabet Inc's Google Play Store and Apple Inc'...