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Jumbotail raises $14.2 million for its wholesale marketplace in India

TechCrunch

Jumbotail said it serves more than 30,000 neighborhood stores (popularly known in India as kiranas) in the country. There are more than 30 million neighborhood stores in India located across the thousands of cities and towns in the country. At present, the platform is largely focused on grocery delivery. Facebook invests $5.7B

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Video creation and editing platform InVideo raises $15 million

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InVideo, a Mumbai-based startup that has built a video creation and editing platform, has raised $15 million as it looks to court more users and customers worldwide. Some of these customers are white-labeling InVideo platform to their own clients. InVideo ’s $15 million Series A financing round was led by Sequoia Capital India.

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India will get this $87 JioPhone Next instead of the Pixel 6

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The new JioPhone Next is a collaboration between Google and Indian telecom Jio Platforms. | Jio Platforms. Google and Indian telecom company Jio Platforms finally unveiled their budget smartphone for India on Friday, the JioPhone Next. The phone has a 5.45-inch billion investment in the telecom company.

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Former Twitter India head leaving firm to start an edtech platform

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Manish Maheshwari, the former head of Twitter India who recently moved to San Francisco to work at a different division within the company, is leaving the firm to launch an edtech startup, according to nine people familiar with the matter. The former Twitter India head moved to the U.S.

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India seeks to regulate deepfakes amid ethical concerns

TechCrunch

India is drafting rules to detect and limit the spread of deepfake content and other harmful AI media, a senior lawmaker said Thursday, following reports of proliferation of such content on social media platforms in recent weeks.

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India reportedly orders social media platforms to remove references to “Indian variant” of COVID-19

The Verge

India’s government has sent notices to social media platforms ordering them to take down content that refers to an “Indian variant” of the COVID-19 virus, Reuters reported. A variant of the coronavirus first detected in India last year, B.1.617 Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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Arya raises $21M to provide farmers in India finance and post-harvest services

TechCrunch

Nearly all post-harvest interventions that exist in India today are focused largely toward major agriculture centres such as Kota in the northern Indian state of Rajasthan and Azadpur Mandi in capital New Delhi, explained Prasanna Rao, co-founder and chief executive of Arya, in an interview with TechCrunch.

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