Jio Platforms is investing $200 million in Glance, which serves media content, news and casual games on Android handsets’ lockscreen, the two said Monday, the latest in a series of bets from Mukesh
Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry is as hot as ever, with a
Google said on Tuesday it is investing in two Indian startups, Glance and DailyHunt, as the Android-maker makes a further push into the world’s second-largest internet market. Two-year-old India
Glance, which serves media content, news and casual games on the lock screen of Android-powered smartphones, has amassed 100 million daily active users, it said today. The subsidiary of ad-firm InMobi
Yulu, a Bangalore-based electric bike sharing platform that maintains a partnership with Uber, said today it has won the backing of one of the country’s largest automakers. The two-year-old startup
An Indian SaaS startup, which is increasingly courting clients from outside the country, just raised a significant amount of capital to expand its business. Hyderabad-based Darwinbox, which operates a
Glance, a subsidiary of Indian mobile ad business firm InMobi, said today it has raised $45 million as it prepares to scale its business outside of India and bulk up its product offerings. The unnamed
Even as much of the world is digitizing its governance, in small towns and villages of India, data about its citizens is still being largely logged on long and thick notebooks. Have they received the
Uber has partnered with bicycle sharing platform Yulu in India as it looks to grab a piece of the growing e-bikes market that is increasingly posing a challenge to taxi services in the nation. The San
At last year’s Microsoft Ignite conference, the CEOs of Microsoft, Adobe and SAP took the stage to announce the launch of the Open Data Initiative. The idea behind this effort was to make it eas
Over in India, there are a handful of startups working to get the country’s billion-person population on bikes. One of them is Yulu, co-founded by Amit Gupta, who formerly co-founded profitable,
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Best known as an Android utility app maker, Cheetah Mobile is now focused on global growth for its mobile advertising business. The Beijing-based company announced today that it will launch its advert
A who's-who of big time American investors are bringing the marketplace investment thesis behind HomeJoy and Handy to India -- backing the new startup Zimmber. Ram Shriram, the founder of Sherpalo Ven
Independent ad network InMobi is touting a new solution for developers to take advantage of gamers' emotional states to producer high click-thru rates on advertisements in their games. Along with tool
InMobi is making its biggest push so far in capturing a larger share of the $11.9 billion mobile advertising market, as it launches its new video ad platform today. The new mobile video platform also
Just over a year after <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/07/12/inmobi-buys-appbistro-appgalleries-mmtg-labs/">InMobi bought MMTG Labs</a>, the mobile ad company is today unveiling the first big pro
Mobile advertising network <a target="_blank" href="http://www.inmobi.com">InMobi</a> today took one more step in its bid to be a one-stop shop for developers' app marketing needs, in the process taki
As Rovio plans its entry into the <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2013/02/06/angry-birds-cartoons-will-launch-in-spring-but-probably-not-on-tv/">cartoon business</a>, the company has announced a round
Mobile ad network InMobi continues to make use of the $200 million in financing it received in 2011 from Softbank: today it is announcing the acquisition of Overlay Media, a UK-based developer of 
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