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Teachers’ Venture Growth, the high-stage and growth investment arm of the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, is investing $80 million in Perfios, an Indian fintech that provides…
Google temporarily restores Indian companies’ apps to Play Store after regulatory intervention
Update March 5, 4:30 p.m. IST: Google said it was restoring all of the Indian companies’ apps after both the Silicon Valley firm and the protesting…
Varaha helps Indian farmers reduce climate-damaging practices such as crop residue burning and paddy flooding
Varaha has attracted investor interest as an end-to-end developer of carbon credits that it creates by working with thousands of smallholder farmers who produce crops on…
Prolific ransomware gang LockBit has claimed responsibility for hacking one of India’s leading stockbrokers, Motilal Oswal. Indian authorities say they are aware of the incident and…
Indian Parliamentary panel points to PhonePe and Google Pay in 83% of India’s UPI payments amid Paytm crackdown
An Indian parliamentary committee has urged the government to support the development of domestic fintech players that can offer alternatives to Walmart-backed apps PhonePe and Google…
Shares in Paytm fell another 20% on Friday before hitting a lower circuit that temporarily halts trading as the Indian financial services firm reeled from a…
Indian state government fixes website errors that exposed residents’ sensitive documents
An Indian state government has fixed security issues affecting its website that exposed sensitive documents and personal information of millions of residents. The errors were on…
Amnesty confirms Apple warning: iPhones of Indian journalists infected with Pegasus spyware
Apple’s warnings in late October that Indian journalists and opposition figures may have been targeted by state attacks prompted a forceful counterattack from Prime Minister Narendra…
Omidyar Network, backed by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar, is shutting down its India operations, two sources familiar with the matter told TechCrunch, in a surprising development…