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KFC India and IDCA join hands to promote deaf cricket

KFC India announced a partnership with Indian Deaf Cricket Association (IDCA) With this partnership, the fast food giant becomes the ‘principal sponsor’ for IDCA starting this year KFC India has announced a partnership with the Indian Deaf Cricket Association (IDCA) to increase deaf cricket’s visibility and growth in the country. With this collaboration, Kfc will serve as IDCA’s “primary sponsor” beginning this year and continuing until the ICC Cricket World Cup for the Deaf in 2023. Mithali Raj, the women’s national cricket team captain, along with Sumit Jain, the President…

Former Nazara CTO Vamsi Talasila joins RESET TECH as co-founder and CTO

He will spearhead the company’s product and technology initiative At RESET TECH, he will work alongside other co-founders Karan Talreja and Luke Coutinho and take part in the leadership and decision making of the startup. Former CTO of Nazara Technologies Ltd, Vamsi Talasila has joined health-tech firm RESET TECH (K&L Wellness Technology Pvt. Ltd) as co-founder and CTO. Talasila’s new responsibilities will include developing the company’s technology platform and expanding its global operations. He will also lead the company’s product and technology initiatives, beginning with product development and progressing to…

Disney names Susan Arnold as its first woman chair in its 98-year history

Mrs Susan Arnold is the woman to be named to the role in the entertainment company’s 98-year-long history. She has also served in senior roles at some of America’s biggest companies. The Walt Disney Company (DIS.N) named Susan Arnold as its chairman of the board on Wednesday, making her the first woman to hold the position in the company’s 98-year history. Arnold, who has been a member of the board for 14 years, will take over for Bob Iger on December 31. “As I step into this new role as…

Agrostar raised $70 Mn in series D funding round

The new round has come after a gap of 33 months for AgroStar. The fresh funds will be deployed towards product and business expansion & hiring. AgroStar, an omnichannel agriculture advisory and commerce marketplace, has raised $70 million in Series D funding from Evolvence, Schroders Capital, Hero Enterprise, and CDC. The round was also attended by existing investors Aavishkaar Capital, Accel, Bertelsmann, Chiratae Ventures, and Rabo Frontier Ventures. AgroStar’s new round comes after a 33-month hiatus. In March 2019, Bertelsmann India led a $27 million Series C round in the…

Pirated Microsoft users can buy genuine subscription at a discount.

Microsoft may be giving users of pirated software a discount. Microsoft will discount subscriptions of Personal and Family tiers by 50 percent. Piracy is as widespread as it is widely disliked by software companies. Microsoft is one of them, and it has repeatedly launched campaigns urging people not to use pirated software. The most recent is a 50% discount on genuine Office software that Microsoft will provide to users of pirated versions of Microsoft 365. This promotion is valid for both Microsoft 365 Personal and Microsoft 365 Family subscriptions. Users…

VIPER : A breakthrough technology from Deep Tech Startup

Deep tech startup specialising in optical sensors and edge analytics collaborates with BOEM to pioneer a new method of discovering cleantech resources on the seafloor. Impossible Sensing, a deep tech start-up based in St. Louis that specialises in optical sensors and edge analytics, is collaborating with the U.S. Department of Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) to pioneer a new way to discover cleantech resources on the seafloor. VIPER, a game-changing technology developed by Impossible Sensing, sends robotic laboratories to the ocean’s depths for the first time to identify…

Mitto AG managing OTP’s for Google, Whatsapp and twitter involved in spying : Latest report

Mitto AG finds itself in the middle of a global spying business Mitto AG is a private company that has partnerships with over 100 telecom operators across the world. Mitto AG, which assisted technology behemoths such as Google, WhatsApp, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Telegram with OTP services, is now involved in a global spying business. According to a report by the London-based nonprofit The Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ), Ilja Gorelik, the company’s co-founder and chief operating officer, provided services to surveillance companies such as “selling access to Mitto’s networks to…

Bizongo raises $110 Mn in its series D round led by Tiger Global

Existing investors such as B Capital and International Finance Corporation (IFC) and CDC have also participated in the fresh funding. This is the maiden round for the Mumbai-based company in 2021. Bizongo, an e-commerce packaging company, has raised $110 million [Rs 825 crore] in a Series D round of funding led by Tiger Global. Existing investors such as B Capital, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), and the Canadian Development Corporation (CDC) have also contributed to the new funding. Tiger Global led the Series D round with a $45 million [Rs…

Whatsapp chat disappearing feature will now include a new option

WhatsApp now lets you start new conversations that entirely disappear. You can set the time to 24 hours, 7 days, or 90 days for disappearing chats. WhatsApp has announced that its much-anticipated disappearing messages feature will now include the disappearing chat functionality. WhatsApp users can now enable disappearing messages for all new chats, which means the entire chat will disappear after the specified time, which can be 24 hours, 7 days, or 90 days. “Not all messages need to stick around forever,” said Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg in a post…

Citi announces grant for Indian startups : All you need to know

Approximately 25 early-stage startups will be provided a grant for scaling up activities The lender has tied up with IIT-Kanpur and technology incubator T-Hub for the initiative American lender Citi announced on Monday that it will provide a grant to Indian startups to help them scale up activities with a positive societal impact in agriculture, healthcare, and financial technology. According to an official statement, the lender has partnered with IIT-Kanpur and technology incubator T-Hub to launch a’social innovation lab’ that will carry the initiative forward. The lab has invited applications…