Koo promises lifetime free verification for all notable personalitiesThe company said the free lifetime verification will be available to all notable personalities and creators across the world enabling them ...
31 Mar, 2023, 03.37 PM IST
Social media has to be user-first, not platform-first: Koo slams Twitter's new policy on competitorsTwitter on Monday rescinded its 'promotion of alternative social platforms policy' after criticism on social media, and multiple users poin...
19 Dec, 2022, 05.14 PM 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
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 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 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
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 clocks five million downloads in the last quarter“We announced our 10 million downloads mark in August,” said CEO Aprameya Radhakrishna.
25 Oct, 2021, 07.15 AM 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
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
Koo to foray into 22 Indian languages this yearKoo is also planning to introduce content in Urdu and Sanskrit and is currently present in eight Indian languages plus English
24 Mar, 2021, 06.03 AM IST
Shunwei Capital exits Bombinate Technologies, parent company of Vokal & KooKoo was founded in March 2020 by Radhakrishna and Mayank Bidawatka, as a micro- blogging platform for Indian languages.
17 Mar, 2021, 03.16 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
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
Microblogging platform Koo bags $4.1 million in fundingFounded in 2020, Koo allows users to connect, comment and engage in 13 local languages.
05 Feb, 2021, 01.10 PM IST