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Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
The acquisition talks between the four-year-old social media startup and Dailyhunt have fallen through.
Indian microblogging platform Koo, once considered an alternative to X (formerly Twitter), is shutting down, according to a person in the know, who asked not to be named. The four-year-old startup’s decision to wind up was triggered—and locked—earlier this week after its likely acquisition by online media firm Dailyhunt fell through.
Co-founded by Aprameya Radhakrishna and Mayank Bidawatka in 2020, Koo counts Tiger Global, Accel, Blume Ventures and Kalaari Capital among its backers.
For months now, Koo and Dailyhunt had been engaged in talks to subsume the former. This acquisition was supposed to be Koo’s lifeline as well as a …
The homegrown social startup is betting big on India’s latest content obsession—minute-long episodes of high-stakes dramas. Cut through the noise and the microdrama hype itself doesn’t add up.
The Zoho co-founder’s attempt to build a WhatsApp competitor has captured the imagination of the nationalist Indian. Emotions aside, the most likely outcome is that Zoho’s other products will start selling more.
The audio chat app turned profitable by connecting people from tier-2 and tier-3 India with users who speak the same vernacular language. But its aim to turn it into a sustainable business seems too ambitious.
