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Well soon meet in your inbox. Please wait... The world’s largest video-streaming service had earlier said that it spent about Rs 3,000 crore on content programming in India across 2019 and 2020 and stated plans to spend significantly more this year. Last month, it released its largest-ever programming slate for the country, with more than 40 original titles expected to debut on the service over the next year. Netflix has commissioned about 90 to 100 productions, including 30 films, in India...

Well soon meet in your inbox. Please wait... Microsoft and Discord did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Social networking has grown during the Covid-19 pandemic as people spent more time online for gaming to investment amid stay-at-home restrictions. Discord, which allows public and private groups to gather and chat by text, audio and video, has expanded from a gamers club to all types of communities, including sports fans, music groups and cryptocurrency investors. With over ...

Well soon meet in your inbox. Please wait... Both companies said they were putting in place measures to cater to the elevated demand in the state, including hiring additional workers in their supply chains. “We are already witnessing a surge in demand from the cities which are deeply impacted by the second wave. With the announcement of new guidelines in Maharashtra today, we are expecting a further surge in demand,” said a spokesperson for Grofers. 600,000+ Number of carts on @Grofers crea...

Well soon meet in your inbox. Please wait... CoLearn launched its online platform in August 2020 and has scaled to reach 3.5 million students. It has set up a technology team in India and aims to double its size by the end of 2021. People with experience in data science, product and engineering roles will be hired across India, Indonesia and the United Arab Emirates. “Despite having the world’s fourth largest education ecosystem with 50 million students, three million teachers and half-a-mi...

Well soon meet in your inbox. Please wait... Though established in 2014, TrulyMadly was taken over and overhauled by Snehil Khanor, one of its founding members and first product manager, in December 2018. Operating under Crescere Technologies Pvt. Ltd., Khanor and co-founder and Chief Technology Officer Amit Gupta created a new core team at TrulyMadly and revamped the app to its present avatar. The platform offers compatibility and verification-based matchmaking services and boasts of 85 lakh u...

Twitter expands India engineering team, hires Ubers Apurva Dalal to lead it SECTIONS Share Synopsis Apurva Dalal, as director of engineering for Twitter India, will be responsible for strengthening the firm’s engineering capacity and offerings for local and global audiences, the company says in a statement. AP New Delhi:Twitter Inc. is expanding its engineering team in India and has hired Uber Technologies Inc.s Apurva Dalal to lead it, as the microblogging platform retrains focus on one of i...

Tiger Global backs Pristyn Care at over $550 million valuation SECTIONS Share Synopsis Pristyn Cares $53 million funding round has a minor secondary component of close to a million dollars which saw some employees take home small cheques, says Harsimarbir Singh, co-founder of the Gurgaon-based healthcare startup. ETtech Illustration: Rahul Awasthi Mumbai: New York-based Tiger Global has invested more than $40 million in Pristyn Cares $53-million funding round that valued the Gurgaon-based healt...

Well soon meet in your inbox. Please wait... TCS plans to hire over 40,000 people from campuses this year, while Infosys is likely to recruit nearly 25,000 people from campuses. Wipro, which has not provided a hiring plan, said it will onboard more people than last year. “…growth itself has picked up and on top of it, most of the growth volumes are happening in India, and consequently, there is tremendous demand for talent,” Infosys’ chief operating officer Pravin Rao told analysts las...

HCL Tech signs multi-million-dollar deal with Japan’s UD Trucks SECTIONS Last Updated: Apr 19, 2021, 01:13 PM IST Share Synopsis Under the contract, HCL Technologies will deliver end-to-end IT transformation — spanning digital platforms, agile digital application development, migration, support and maintenance and digital workplace services — for UD Trucks. New Delhi: HCL Technologies Ltd. has signed a multi-million-dollar deal with UD Trucks Corp. to accelerate the digital transformation...

SaaS startup Druva gets $147 million funding at $2 billion valuation SECTIONS Last Updated: Apr 19, 2021, 07:15 PM IST Share Synopsis Druva will use the funding from investors CDPQ and Neuberger Berman for product development and expand into the Nordics and Australia, Jaspreet Singh, CEO of the California-based SaaS startup says. Getty Images Pune:Druva, a cloud data protection and management firm has raised $147 million in a funding round led by Canada’s Caisse de dépôt et placement du Qu�...