Indian microblogging app Koo crosses 50 million downloadsThe company has crossed 50 million downloads and should be reaching the 100 million downloads mark over the next one year, CEO and co-found...
02 Nov, 2022, 04.02 PM 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
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 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 launches voluntary self verification for all usersAny Koo user can now self-verify their profile on the platform by using their government-approved ID card. The platform said the move empow...
06 Apr, 2022, 04.54 PM IST
Koo prepares for Assembly polls in five states, plans to curb misinformation & fake newsThe homegrown social media platform said it has also restricted over 800 handles so far.
05 Mar, 2022, 10.36 AM IST
Koo adopts 'voluntary code of ethics' for fair, ethical use of social media during pollsCreated by the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI), the code was first presented ahead of the 2019 general elections, by the i...
13 Jan, 2022, 03.59 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 publishes compliance report for July, says took steps to 'proactively moderate' 65,280 postsKoo said the report aims to bring transparency to the process of enabling compliance requirements on social media.
02 Aug, 2021, 05.12 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
Twitter's local rival Koo gains; downloads, use rise 5x in 3 daysTraction on the Koo platform is going up amid ongoing dispute between Twitter, govt
29 May, 2021, 07.19 AM 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
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
Made-in-India Koo app announces 'Talk to Type' feature for regional languagesThe move is aimed to enable and empower those users who feel uncomfortable using the keyboard.
05 May, 2021, 05.34 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