V Shaped Recovery The National Statistical Office (NSO) has released estimates suggesting that India’s GDP contracted 7.5 per cent in the second quarter of 2020-21, following the record 23.9 per cent decline recorded in the first quarter. As a result of two successive quarters of negative growth, the country has slipped into a technical recession. Commenting on these figures, Dharmakirti Joshi,

Today’s interview is with Jo Webber, the CEO and founder of Pod.io, a startup which has developed an app to help people connect with others over shared interests. Jo told us why, in a world full of social networking apps, why Pod.io is necessary, how it’s different, and how the company is approaching a launch during a global pandemic. What is Pod.io? Jo Webber: Why we created Pod, was we’ve look

Project Taara is partnering up with a local telecom company to deliver wireless internet in Kenya.

Alphabet’s X “Moonshot Factory” subsidiary has a lot of cutting-edge projects in development, so it’s always exciting when one of them gets ready for real-world deployment. On Tuesday, X announced that its “Project Taara” high-speed optical wireless broadband endeavor is working with internet provider Econet and its subsidiaries to begin rolling out its tech across Sub-Saharan Africa. This depl

You can read more about our news and what this means on TechCrunch →Big news today! We’ve raised US$12 million in Series A funding led by Accel, with participation from Heavybit and Uncork Capital. The new funding follows the seed round we announced just a few months ago in April, and will allow us to build out our team and product at a faster pace, given the level of demand accompanying the world

The 2020 presidential election is tomorrow. After over a year of political mudslinging in debates, commercials, and on social media, we’re finally about to find out if President Donald Trump or former Vice President Joe Biden will lead the nation for the next four years. Not only does this year’s election have health, political and economical implications, but it also reaches deep into the techno

The hyperscaler duo both smashed earnings forecasts indicating a healthy public cloud market, but market leader AWS says Q3 was still a ‘a mixed bag’ Two of the public cloud market's key giants both logged barn storming Q3s, despite pandemic pressures eating into revenues in other parts of their businesses. At first glance - How the two compare Google Cloud revenues shot up 44.5 per

Each week, we spotlight a cool innovation recommended by some of the industry’s top tech writers. This week’s pick is a fleet of high-altitude balloons. Google’s new “fleet of high-altitude balloons” is bringing internet service to one of the remotest regions of Africa, said Abdi Latif Dahir in The New York Times. Acting as “floating cell towers,” the balloons began providing 4G LTE network connec

Just over a year ago, we founded Tailscale with a common sense of nostalgia for the good old days of LANs. In our collective opinion (then and now) networking and cloud infrastructure has become too complicated. Attempts to increase team connectivity and migrate towards remote work results in a corresponding burden of security. This reduces productivity. Systems and approaches dont scale without s

Blockchain is one of the biggest buzz words in the tech industry, but beyond the hype is a seriously disruptive technology. It is a form of distributed ledger technology, made famous because it is the system on which Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are built upon. But, as we are slowly finding out, there is more to it than just digital money. There are a number of different use cases being exp