Walmart-owned e-commerce major Flipkart has entered into a strategic and commercial partnership with the Adani Group to enhance its supply chain infrastructure and set up its third data centre in the country. The online retailer…
Judge grants preliminary injunction requiring Uber and Lyft…
A California judge granted a preliminary injunction Monday requiring Uber and Lyft to stop classifying their drivers as independent contractors pending further action by the court. The order will take effect after 10 days, as the companies…
Bootstrapped startup Dhiway taps blockchain-based data verification for…
Mumbai: Bengaluru-based bootstrapped startup Dhiway is looking to capitalise on the data verification needs of companies, its CEO said, at a time when many manual processes across sectors such as education, banking and healthcare are…
Chinese Tesla rival Xpeng Motors files for New…
Xpeng Motors latest electric car is called the P7.Xpeng MotorsChinese electric car start-up Xpeng Motors has filed for an initial public offering (IPO) on the New York Stock Exchange, according to an official filing. While the…
View: What India can learn from Microsoft’s potential…
By Vivek WadhwaThe summer has been eventful for ByteDance, the owner of the rapidly growing social network TikTok. First, GoI banned the application from distribution in the country due to concerns that the Chinese government…
Trump’s ban of Chinese apps has lots of…
Sundar Pichai and Tim CookSource: Reuters; ApplePresident Donald Trump issued an executive order on Thursday ordering U.S. firms to stop doing business with popular Chinese apps TikTok, owned by ByteDance, and WeChat, owned by Tencent. This…
TikTok plans to sue Trump administration over ban…
The Tencent Holdings Ltd. WeChat and ByteDance Ltd. TikTok app icons are displayed on a smartphone in an arranged photograph taken in Arlington, Virginia, on Friday, Aug. 7, 2020.Andrew Harrer | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesTikTok…
As Trump bans WeChat, some in China turn…
The Signal Messenger app is displayed on a smartphone in Hong Kong, China.Roy Liu | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump's executive order banning American use of WeChat, the most popular app in China, takes effect next…
Chingari, Zoho among some winners of govt App…
The government has announced the winners along with some of the top contestants under its programme to incentivise homegrown applications under the Atmanirbhar mission of the Indian government. Under the App Innovation Challenge, while Indian…