Google, Thiel Funding Helps Harvard Alum Score a Second Unicorn
Bloomberg 12/22/2020 Saritha Rai
(Bloomberg) Glance, a mobile content platform from the founder of India’s earliest unicorn, has reached a valuation of over $1 billion after completing a funding round that was led by Google, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
The Alphabet Inc. unit and billionaire Peter Thiel’s Mithril Capital invested $145 million in the 18-month-old startup, whose app uses artificial intelligence to curate a personalized feed of entertainment, news, sports scores and video game content and push it to phone lock screens, according to a statement. Mithril had earlier invested $45 million into Glance, taking the total funds raised by the startup to $190 million.
All political parties, technical experts and students from IIT should be called by EC in EVM hackathon: AAP
All political parties, technical experts and students from IIT should be called by EC in EVM hackathon: AAP
During The All-party Meeting Called By Election Commission On Electronic Voting Machine Issue, The Aam Aadmi Party On Friday Suggested Three Points After EC Posed Challenge To Political Parties To Hack EVMs. The AAP Urged EC To Organise Hackathon And Also Conduct Challenge To Prove Tampering In Last Election.
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During the all-party meeting called by Election Commission on Electronic Voting Machine issue, the Aam Aadmi Party on Friday suggested three points before EC which posed challenge to political parties to hack EVMs. The AAP urged EC to organise hackathon and also conduct challenge to prove tampering in last election.
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Google helps birth 2 social media unicorns in India in rapid succession
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. Updated: 22 Dec 2020, 05:27 PM IST Bloomberg
Google and its American internet peers are steadily amping up their investment in India, latching onto the only other country with a billion-plus population after getting shut out of China
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Google investments helped create India’s two youngest technology unicorns: a pair of startups that feed personalized news and entertainment to the world’s fastest-growing smartphone population.
Glance, which feeds news and sports scores to phone-lock screens, is said to have reached a valuation of more than $1 billion after completing a funding round led by Google. And VerSe Innovation Pvt, the studio behind the popular Dailyhunt news site and TikTok-like Josh app, said it passed that threshold after winning more than $100 million from Alphabet Inc.’s search giant and Microsoft Corp.