Vikas SN
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Vikas SN
@tsuvik.bsky.social
Tech Reporter at Moneycontrol

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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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July 2, 2025 at 10:12 AM
🚨New: Google brings 'AI Mode' search experience to India, a month after the US rollout
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June 24, 2025 at 6:03 AM
🚨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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June 16, 2025 at 6:38 AM
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Heh
June 5, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Whoa! Taylor Swift buys back all her six previous albums after six years of turmoil
May 30, 2025 at 3:50 PM
🚨 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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May 15, 2025 at 4:35 AM
End of an era! Virat Kohli retires from Test cricket
May 12, 2025 at 6:46 AM
🚨 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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May 9, 2025 at 3:39 PM
🚨 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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May 6, 2025 at 7:13 AM
🚨 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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May 5, 2025 at 8:42 AM
🚨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.

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May 5, 2025 at 7:08 AM
🚨YouTube has roped in former Zalora Group CEO Gunjan Soni to lead its India operations

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April 28, 2025 at 8:44 AM
🚨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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April 25, 2025 at 6:53 AM
The Chinnaswamy jinx is finally broken (hopefully...) #IPL2025
April 24, 2025 at 6:34 PM
💰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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April 24, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Reddit rolls out AI-powered Answers feature to India and several other markets such as UK, Australia, and Canada
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April 24, 2025 at 5:42 AM
🚨Meta is soon bringing its Ray Ban Meta glasses to India. No further details yet on the pricing or the launch date yet.
April 23, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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...
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April 15, 2025 at 5:16 AM
🚨 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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April 10, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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...
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April 9, 2025 at 7:39 AM
💰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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April 3, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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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April 2, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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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March 31, 2025 at 3:30 PM
So we will no longer have to say "X, the social network formerly known as Twitter"?
Elon Musk says xAI has acquired X in an all-stock transaction valuing xAI at $80B and X at $33B (Elon Musk/@elonmusk)

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March 29, 2025 at 7:49 AM
🚨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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March 28, 2025 at 4:37 PM