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Deepsekhar Choudhury

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Google toughens privacy compliance, disclosures for app developers
Rediff.com27 Apr 2022

Tech giant Alphabet on Monday launched a privacy feature on its app marketplace Google...

Zomato puts on hold policy banning eateries over consumer complaints
Rediff.com16 Apr 2022

Zomato said late on Friday that it was pushing the implementation of the new food...

WhatsApp bets big on payments biz in India, plans big investments
Rediff.com15 Apr 2022

A day after getting permission to raise its Unified Payments Interface (UPI) user base...

Paytm CEO will get stock grants once m-cap recovers to IPO levels
Rediff.com7 Apr 2022

Paytm founder and chief executive officer (CEO) Vijay Shekhar Sharma will receive his...

At $14 billion, venture capital fund exits soared 10x in 2021
Rediff.com6 Apr 2022

Three marquee exits accounted for nearly 60 per cent of the total exit value --...

MobiKwik to delay IPO; turns to private market
Rediff.com9 Mar 2022

With the stock market turning choppy, fintech start-up MobiKwik, which had filed a...

Ashneer Grover and the BharatPe controversy: A blow-by-blow account
Rediff.com4 Mar 2022

"Yeh sab doglapan hai." With these words, Ashneer Grover not only called out an...

Tech start-ups struggle to move out of the red
Rediff.com24 Feb 2022

Technology start-ups that got listed in the last few quarters reported a hit to their...

Intel group company back with chip-making plan in India
Rediff.com19 Feb 2022

'Our plan to set up a semiconductor facility in India is back on the table'

India's Covid testing data is a black hole
Rediff.com24 Jan 2022

'In the earlier waves, doubling of cases was happening at an interval of 4-6 days.'...

Start-up Inc urges policy push, focus on smaller towns for sector's growth
Rediff.com17 Jan 2022

While welcoming Prime Minister Narendra Modi's announcement on Saturday to celebrate...

Bengaluru outstrips Beijing, Shanghai in tech VC funding in 2021
Rediff.com14 Jan 2022

With $18.6 billion in investments, Bengaluru made it to the top-five leading VC funding...

Factors that spooked Paytm's market performance
Rediff.com13 Jan 2022

Paytm CEO Vijay Shekhar Sharma said on Wednesday that the company's share market...

UPI-like digital healthcare interface to go live this week
Rediff.com12 Jan 2022

'United Health Interface is in line with UPI. UPI is a language of money transfer,...

Will content creators drive the next wave of e-commerce?
Rediff.com9 Jan 2022

First it was called content-led commerce. Then it came to be known as influencer-led...

India's E-Commerce: Great Leap Forward
Rediff.com8 Jan 2022

Live commerce, quick commerce, group buying, WhatsApp commerce, dukaantech have made...

Ola, Uber score 0 in gig worker rankings
Rediff.com5 Jan 2022

Fairwork focuses on five principles of fair gig work: Fair pay, fair conditions, fair...

Hiring by e-commerce firms set to rise in 2022
Rediff.com30 Dec 2021

From a location perspective, the last quarter saw Kolkata and Gurgaon as top regions...

How India's family offices are striking out on their own in start-up land
Rediff.com27 Dec 2021

Family offices are increasingly looking to invest directly in start-ups rather than...

Cars24 raises $400 mn in funding, valuation up 83%
Rediff.com21 Dec 2021

Cars24, an e-commerce platform for pre-owned vehicles, on Monday said it had raised...