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🚨 Snapchat surpasses 250 million monthly active users in India, driven by rising adoption among young users and increased AR engagement
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🚨New: Google brings 'AI Mode' search experience to India, a month after the US rollout
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🚨IMP: Meta has appointed its India ads business head Arun Srinivas as the Managing Director and India head.

This comes after Sandhya Devanathan recently took on an expanded role of leading both India & South East Asia in May 2025. www.moneycontrol.com/technology/m...

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Whoa! Taylor Swift buys back all her six previous albums after six years of turmoil

🚨 Meta expands India head Sandhya Devanathan's role to include Southeast Asia

The firm has also elevated Benjamin Joe as the regional vice president for the Asia Pacific region

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End of an era! Virat Kohli retires from Test cricket

🚨 How two siblings in Jammu and Pathankot survived the night Pakistan rained hundreds of drones on India: A first-person account

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🚨 YouTube's commerce tools could significantly boost creator earnings in India, APAC chief Gautam Anand tells us in an interview

He also anticipates that Indian creators will be at forefront of experimenting with AI tools as YT accelerates its GenAI efforts
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🚨 ICYMI last week 👇

Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen says that real value for customers is in interface, not in data or AI models

He also says that India has the opportunity to lead in ethical AI on the global stage
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🚨Scoop: YouTube is piloting a new two-person Premium plan with select users in India, France, Taiwan, & Hong Kong

Allows people to share their Premium or Music Premium membership with another household member.

In India, the plan is available for Rs 219/month www.moneycontrol.com/technology/y...

🚨YouTube has roped in former Zalora Group CEO Gunjan Soni to lead its India operations

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🚨New: Over 30% of Google's new code is now AI-generated, says Sundar Pichai

He said they are now working on deeper coding experiences & early agentic workflows

Pichai also said all 15 products with at least half a billion users now use Gemini models

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The Chinnaswamy jinx is finally broken (hopefully...) #IPL2025

💰Krafton-backed Blue Ocean Games launches $30 million fund for indie game developers, with focus on nurturing emerging talent in India.
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Reddit rolls out AI-powered Answers feature to India and several other markets such as UK, Australia, and Canada
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🚨Meta is soon bringing its Ray Ban Meta glasses to India. No further details yet on the pricing or the launch date yet.

Spotify brings Gen AI Ads to India, helping brands create audio ads in minutes

It is also launching Spotify Ad Exchange, making it easier for advertisers to buy, create and measure the impact of their campaigns on the platform www.moneycontrol.com/technology/s...

🚨 Flipkart's Kalyan Krishnamurthy

AI has to become the culture of the company. It should not be restricted to a team, a function or a product
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Perplexity to offer India-specific pricing, sees strong revenue growth in the country

India is among the top 10 countries by revenue & probably even close to the top five, says Aravind Srinivas www.moneycontrol.com/technology/p...

💰Pratilipi raises $20 million led by Jungle Ventures

👉 Has entered US & plans expansion into new formats like animation & vertical dramas

👉Valuation at $100M, down from $265M

👉 $12M primary & $8M secondary. Qiming & Shunwei Capital are exiting.
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Amazon Prime Video has launched Apple TV+ as an add-on subscription in India

Prime members will be able to subscribe to the service for a monthly fee of Rs 99

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Dream11 parent Dream Sports joins the 'ghar waapsi' movement, moves domicile back to India

Dream Sports will be joining a slew of internet firms who have moved their domicile back to India such as PhonePe, Zepto, and Groww
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So we will no longer have to say "X, the social network formerly known as Twitter"?

🚨From morning:

BGMI maker Krafton makes its first acquisition in India.

👉 Buys controlling stake (> 75%) in Nautilus Mobile for Rs 118 Cr

👉 Will enable Krafton to do more game dev in India

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🎬 JioHotstar says it has crossed 100 million subscribers in India.

JioHotstar was recently created from the merger of JioCinema and Disney+ Hotstar.

Netflix, WWE bank on India’s love for drama to fuel growth

WWE content is set to debut on Netflix from April 1

Through WWE content, Netflix is looking to expand its base in India amid rising competition
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🚨Kunal Kamra row: From vandalism to show cancellations, comedy venues caught in the crossfire

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Yahoo sells TechCrunch to investment firm Regent Regent recently acquired Foundry, which houses a slew of online tech publications such as PCWorld, Macworld and TechAdvisor.

Yahoo sells TechCrunch to investment firm Regent

Regent recently acquired Foundry, which houses a slew of online tech publications, such as PCWorld, Macworld and TechAdvisor. www.axios.com/2025/03/21/y...

Haha let's see.