India’s top court has put on hold a tribunal ruling that halted Byju’s insolvency proceedings in a win for U.S. creditors that are seeking $1 billion from the edtech startup. The Indian Supreme Court ordered on Wednesday a stay on the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal’s recent approval of a settlement between the Indian cricket […]
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On Tuesday at its Made by Google event, Google announced that the new Pixel 9 line is coming to India. The news also finds the company’s new foldable launching in the world’s second largest smartphone market for the first time. Google is expanding its sales channels in the country by partnering with two offline retail
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Indian grocery delivery startup Zepto has finalized a $340 million round that values it $5 billion, up from $3.6 billion in June and $1.4 billion last August, as the startup races to win market share in India’s contested quick-commerce market. sources familiar with the deal told TechCrunch. General Catalyst and Mars Growth Capital are co-leading
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If your target market has 22 official languages and its people speak in over 19,000 dialects, does it make sense to offer a text-only AI chatbot that can function best in a couple languages? That’s the question Indian AI startup Sarvam has been working to solve, and on Tuesday it launched a series of offerings,
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Google has announced the rollout of its locally produced Pixel 8 devices in India, nearly 10 months after revealing its domestic manufacturing plans for the devices, and immediately ahead of the expected Pixel 9 unveiling later this week. The Android maker confirmed to TechCrunch that the local manufacturing is currently limited to the Pixel 8 and
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EV charging station startup Kazam plans to expand beyond India, where it already holds a significant share of the market, and into Southeast Asia to gain an early mover’s advantage, TechCrunch has exclusively learned. The Bengaluru-headquartered startup, which has offices in Delhi and Pune and city managers in 4,000 postal codes across India, is set
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The valuation of Oyo, once India’s second-most valuable startup at $10 billion, has dipped to $2.4 billion in a new funding round. The Gurugram-headquartered startup has raised $173.5 million in a Series G funding round. InCred Wealth, Patient Capital and J&A Partners invested in the new round. TechCrunch reported in May that Oyo was seeking
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India is the second-largest wearable market after China. At times, it has also been the largest smartwatch market. However, in Q2, wearable shipments in the country declined 10% year-on-year to 29.5 million units. The first half of the year, meanwhile, fell 4.7% to 55.1 million units, analyst firm IDC reported this week. Market analysts believe
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WhatsApp’s massive 500 million user in India has supercharged Meta’s AI ambitions. Meta CFO Susan Li said Wednesday that India is the largest market in terms of Meta AI usage, a notable milestone considering the product launched in India just a few months ago. Li said during Meta’s second-quarter earnings call that people have used
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Qualcomm Tuesday announced the Snapdragon 4s Gen 2. The entry-level chip aims to make 5G accessible to 2.8 billion smartphone users in price-sensitive markets, including India and Latin America. Manufacturers lately have struggled to attract feature phone buyers in India, the world’s second-biggest smartphone market, primarily due to a lack of 5G models in the
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