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Though attendees grumbled about Las Vegas as a city, the community sentiment at this year’s TwitchCon was notably more optimistic than it was at last year’s convention. TwitchCon 2023 closed out a tense year for the platform, which was punctuated by rounds of layoffs, unpopular policy decisions and the sting of competitors poaching major streamers…

Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinThe Marvels Marvel We are about two weeks away from the release of The Marvels, the film that’s not just a follow-up to Captain Marvel, but also a follow-up to WandaVision, Ms. Marvel and Secret Invasion on Disney Plus, technically. All of that jammed into just an hour and…

Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinTopline Major stock indexes slipped to their lowest levels since May this week as the largest technology companies struggle to hold up the broader market’s gains, an issue on full display amidst the ongoing third-quarter earnings season. Sentiments have grown bleaker on Wall Street. Getty Images Key Facts The…

India’s fast-growing co-branded credit card market may soon see a new entrant: the country’s most valuable firm. Reliance is working with the state-backed lender SBI to launch two co-branded credit cards on the homegrown Rupay network, according to documents reviewed by TechCrunch. The cards, called Reliance SBI Card, will offer some “exclusive” benefits, such as…

Rapido, the eight-year-old Indian bike taxi startup, is expanding into the cab market in the South Asian nation, where Uber and its homegrown competitor Ola dominate. The Bengaluru-based startup has begun a pilot of its cab service in the Southern city of Hyderabad, TechCrunch has learned and confirmed. The company plans to expand the service…

Amazon injected markets with a bit of optimism after posting strong results Thursday…

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Tata Group will start making iPhones in India for the local and global markets, India’s Deputy IT Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar announced on Friday, moments after Wistron’s board approved the sale of Taiwanese firm’s plant in the southern part of India to the tech-to-airline conglomerate. Wistron’s board approved the deal to sell Wistron InfoComm Manufacturing (India) Pvt…

On the eve of the one-year anniversary of Musk taking over Twitter (now X), the company published a retrospective blog post examining how it has fared under the new management. There are a lot of numbers in the post, but one that sticks out is a claim that an average user spends 32 minutes on…

The Asia Internet Coalition, a powerful industry group that represents Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft and many other tech companies, has requested India’s IT Ministry for an extended deadline to comply with certain provisions of a newly approved data protection regulation governing user data processing. In a Thursday letter to India’s IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw and…