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India shipping logistics giant Shipyaari exposed customer data
Shipyaari, a Mumbai-based software company that offers shipping logistics to major consumer brands, exposed the personal data of thousands of its customers because of a months-long spill of its intern
Snapchat+ arrives in India and it costs just 62 cents
Snap on Wednesday launched the paid version of its widely used social media service in India, bringing its exclusive and experimental features offering to the South Asian nation for just 62 cents a mo
Accel backs Produze to help agri-producers in India export globally
Accel has led a $2.6 million funding in Produze, an Indian startup that is attempting to help local agri-producers sell to international retailers, the latest in a series of bets as investors and entr
India says Vivo’s local unit evaded over $280M in import tax
India’s anti-smuggling agency said that phone-vendor Vivo’s local unit had evaded customs duty of over $280 million, roughly a month after the country’s anti-money laundering agency
Sensitive data of Indian pension fund holders exposed online
A huge cache of data containing the full name, bank account number and nominee information of pension fund holders in India has surfaced online. Security researcher Bob Diachenko found two separate IP
Apple alum’s finance operations startup raises funds to expand globally
Bluecopa, an Indian startup building a finance operations automation platform for high-volume companies, has raised $2.3 million to expand its offering in the global market. The seed funding round was
Google backs Indian rewards payments startup Twid
Twid, an Indian startup operating a rewards-based payment platform, has raised $12 million to scale its network of merchants and issuers and expand its solution in the South Asian market. Rakuten Capi
Ottonomy.IO raises $3.3 million to expand network of autonomous robots for deliveries
Ottonomy.IO, a startup working on solving delivery problems using autonomous robots, has raised $3.3 million in a seed funding round as it looks to expand its market and deploy robots to existing cust
Emitrr raises $4 million to expand its automation offering for local businesses
Large-scale and mid-sized enterprises and businesses are increasingly adopting — and offering — software-as-a-service platforms as they seek to increase their revenue and parlay their growth into
Google launches Street View in India after years of rejection
Google has relaunched Street View in India more than a decade after it first rolled out the service in the South Asian market and roughly six years after the feature was banned in the country over se
Krafton says it has invested over $100 million in India and wants to become more than just a gaming company
Krafton, the brand behind some of the world’s most popular video games, says it has already deployed the $100 million it had committed to the Indian market two years ago in the South Asian natio
Amazon eyes bringing satellite internet business Project Kuiper to India
Amazon appears to have identified another market to launch its fast and affordable internet service, Project Kuiper: India. Job listings show the American e-commerce group is looking to hire managers
Indian court agrees to send Future Retail into bankruptcy in another setback for Amazon
An Indian court on Wednesday ordered the initiation of insolvency process against Amazon’s estranged partner Future Retail in yet another setback for the American e-commerce group in the key oversea
Eka Care, a startup helping digitize health records of Indian patients, raises $15 million
Eka Care, a startup that aims to digitize the health records of Indian patients, has raised $15 million in a new financing round as it looks to hire more engineers and bring additional doctors to its
Flipkart’s Cleartrip confirms data breach after hackers put data for sale
Cleartrip, one of the popular travel-booking platforms in India, has confirmed a data breach after hackers claimed to post the stolen data on the dark web. Responding to a request for comment by TechC
India’s central bank wants to ban cryptocurrencies, government says
India’s central bank wants to ban cryptocurrencies, the government told the parliament on Monday, raising more uncertainty about the future of the nascent virtual digital asset in the world’s
Wysa raises $20 million to expand its therapist chatbot into a wider set of mental health services
Wysa, a popular mental health app originally founded in India around an AI chatbot that helps users talk through their feelings, has raised $20 million in a Series B funding round to expand its busine
India proposes right to repair framework for mobile phones, consumer durables
India has proposed to introduce a right to repair law, aiming to provide consumers the ability to have their devices repaired by third parties to fight the growing “culture of planned obsolescen
Sri Lanka central bank warns against use of cryptocurrency amid economic crisis
Sri Lanka has warned its citizens against using cryptocurrency, which it said is “largely unregulated” amid an ongoing political chaos in the South Asian nation. The country’s central bank, CBSL
Wheelocity raises $12 million for its supply chain network for fresh commerce in India
Wheelocity, an early-stage supply chain startup that handles fresh food supplies for quick commerce platforms in India, has raised $12 million in a new financing round as it gears up to broaden its pr