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Jio Platforms invests $200 million in Google-backed Glance

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

This Week in Apps: Apple bans party app, China loses 39K iOS games, TikTok births a ‘Ratatousical’

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 invests in Indian startups Glance and DailyHunt

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

India’s Glance tops 100M daily active users in 21 months

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

India’s electric bike rental startup Yulu inks strategic partnership with Bajaj Auto, raises $8M

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

India’s Darwinbox raises $15M to bring its HR tech platform to more Asian markets

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

InMobi’s Glance raises $45M to expand outside of India

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

Atlan raises $2.5M to stop enterprises from being so bad at managing data

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 begins trialing e-bikes and bicycles rides in India

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

Microsoft, Adobe and SAP prepare to expand their Open Data Initiative

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

Co-founder of unicorn InMobi is launching a bike-sharing startup in India

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,

India’s tech bubble is about to burst

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Cheetah Mobile Will Launch Its Online Advertising Platform In India

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

With A Slew Of US Investors, Zimmber Launches Home Service Marketplace For India

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

InMobi’s New Suite For Game Developers Sports Voxel’s Playable Ads

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 Launches Interactive Video Ad Platform To Help Advertisers Boost Sales On Mobile

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

InMobi Launches New AppGalleries, A White Label App Store For Publishers To Curate Apps, And Boost Mobile Ads

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

InMobi Launches App Publish, An Android App Distribution Platform Covering 130+ Stores; Puts Its Metaflow Acquisition To Work

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

Rovio Beefs Up Global Advertising Team With Hires From Apple, Millennial Media, And inMobi

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 Buys Overlay Media To Improve Ad Personalization, And More

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 &#8
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