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Twitter leads $100M round in top Indian regional social media platform ShareChat
Is there room for another social media platform? ShareChat, a four-year-old social network in India that serves tens of million…
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Facebook denies making contradictory claims on Cambridge Analytica and other ‘sketchy’ apps
Facebook has denied contradicting itself in evidence to the UK parliament and a US public prosecutor. Last month the Department…
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India’s Reliance Jio inks deal with Microsoft to expand Office 365, Azure to more businesses; unveils broadband, blockchain, and IoT platforms
India’s Reliance Jio, which has disrupted the local telecom and features phone businesses in less than three years of its…
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Finance
India’s Meesho raises $125M to expand its social commerce business
Meesho, a Bangalore-based social commerce startup, has raised $125 million in a new financing round to expand its business in…
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Telegram introduces a feature to prevent users from texting too often in a group
Telegram, a popular instant messaging app, has introduced a new feature to give group admins on the app better control…
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Instagram ad partner secretly sucked up and tracked millions of users’ locations and stories
Hyp3r, an apparently trusted marketing partner of Facebook and Instagram, has been secretly collecting and storing location and other data…
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Facebook to admit ownership of Instagram, WhatsApp in hard-to-read small-print
For the first time in more than half a decade, Facebook wants to inform you that it owns Instagram, the…
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TikTok adds Giphy integration to import Stickers and export TikTok memes to the rest of the world
TikTok is the breakout hit in social media apps at the moment — it’s currently ranked first in entertainment, and…
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With 150 million users, Brainly raises $30 million to expand its social learning platform in the U.S.
Peer-to-peer (P2P) social learning platform Brainly has raised $30 million in a round of funding led by South African internet…
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Snap turns to search giant Baidu to court Chinese advertisers
Two years have passed since Snap Inc first struck a deal with Baidu that authorized China’s largest search engine to…
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