BUSINESS
Netflix bets on high-profile shows, films to attract Indian consumers amid rising competition
Netflix has unveiled its 2025 lineup of movies and TV series for the Indian market, which is emerging as a crucial region for its future growth.
BUSINESS
Nazara Tech's Nodwin to acquire StarLadder for Rs 46.75 crore to ramp up esport events
Nazara Tech's esports subsidiary Nodwin Gaming has sought to expand its offerings in India and international markets through a series of acquisitions and investments over the past few years.
STARTUP
Ashneer Grover’s reality show, Titan Story to headline Amazon MX Player's 100 series lineup for 2025
Amazon MX Player unveiled its 2025 lineup of over 100 new shows, which will include 40 new Hindi originals and returning seasons of prominent TV series.
TECHNOLOGY
Meta's Threads now has over 320 million monthly active users, says Mark Zuckerberg
Threads has been adding new features to draw users from X while fending off competition from emerging social platforms such as Bluesky in recent months
TECHNOLOGY
Meta to pour hundreds of billions into AI infrastructure as Zuckerberg shrugs off DeepSeek threat
Meta plans to launch Llama 4 with natively multimodal and agentic capabilities in the forthcoming months. The firm also expects Meta AI to reach 1 billion users in 2025
TECHNOLOGY
Meta to spend up to $65 billion for big AI push in 2025
Meta plans to spend on building infrastructure, including data centers, to power its AI offerings, as the battle for supremacy intensifies among the tech giants.
BUSINESS
NCLAT grants WhatsApp a reprieve from CCI's data-sharing ban order
In November, CCI had directed WhatsApp not to share user data collected on its platform with other Meta products or companies for advertising purposes for five years.
TECHNOLOGY
Davos 2025: AI will be a major growth driver for Mahindra Group, says Anish Shah
Mahindra Group has a team of about 250 to 300 people focused just on artificial intelligence, said managing director and CEO Anish Shah at World Economic Forum in Davos
DAVOS-SUMMIT
Davos 2025: India story growing from strength to strength, says Mahindra Group's Anish Shah
Donald Trump taking over as the United States president creates a fair degree of de-globalisation but also brings a sense of optimism, the Mahindra and Mahindra group CEO has said
BUSINESS
Netflix adds record 18.9 million subscribers in Q4 to go past 300-million milestone
Netflix added 4.94 million subscribers in the Asia-Pacific region, which includes India, taking the subscriber base to 57.5 million in the geography
BUSINESS
Davos 2025: India fifth preferred investment destination among global CEOs due to regulatory complexity, PwC execs say
Indian CEOs are, however, optimistic about their prospects in 2025, buoyed by expectations of higher global economic growth this year
BUSINESS
Nazara Technologies secures Rs 495 Cr funding from Mithun Sacheti & Arpit Khandelwal-led entity; open offer launched
Plutus Wealth Management founder Arpit Khandelwal and CaratLane co-founder Mithun Sacheti-led entities have announced an open offer to acquire another 26% stake in Nazara Technologies.
TECHNOLOGY
Ban Ki Baat: Will India or Trump define the next chapter in the TikTok saga
When India banned TikTok in June 2020, Meta's Instagram and Google's YouTube gained big time. Will it be the same with the US suspension?
STARTUP
Skill gaming firm Head Digital Works's FY24 revenue jumps 31% to Rs 1,378 Crore
Head Digital Works, the owner of A23 Rummy and A23 Poker, made a profit of Rs 72 crore in FY24. This was despite the higher GST burden from the 28% tax slab introduced in October 2023.
BUSINESS
Pocket FM to lay off 75 employees amid push for profitability
The app claims to have more than 200 million listeners who have streamed more than 100 billion minutes of content, with an average daily listening time of over 115 minutes.
BUDGET
Budget 2025: Real-money gaming firms seek redressal of tax issues, rationalisation of policies
The real-money gaming industry is hoping for a resolution of the retrospective taxation issues and lower GST rates to sustain the sector's growth
BUSINESS
'This is a win-win': Real-money gaming firms welcome Supreme Court's stay on GST show cause notices
Over 50 RMG companies and industry associations including Gameskraft, AIGF, Games24x7, Head Digital Works, and EGF have challenged retrospective tax notices worth more than Rs 1.5 lakh crore in the Supreme Court.
TECHNOLOGY
Microsoft to invest $3 billion in cloud & AI in India: Satya Nadella
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella also announced an increased commitment to AI skilling in India, with plans to train 10 million people in AI skills over the next five years.
TECHNOLOGY
Google unveils Gemini 2.0 to power the next generation of virtual agents
Google CEO Sundar Pichai said new advances in multimodality — like native image and audio output — and native tool use will enable the tech giant to build AI agents that brings them closer to their vision of a universal assistant
BUSINESS
MPL acquires game development tools startup CloudFeather Games to bolster tech capabilities
CloudFeather has built technology tools for game developers, including server infrastructure and wallet integration systems
TECHNOLOGY
Google to expand free Maps usage limits for developers starting March 2025
Google's decision to expand free limits comes a few months after it reduced Google Maps Platform pricing in India by up to 70%.
STARTUP
Bitkraft Ventures sets base in India with Anuj Tandon as first partner
As Bitkraft's India Partner, Anuj Tandon will look to back local gaming and interactive media startups, with focus on AI, game tech and content
BUSINESS
Industry veterans form GDAI, want to become the voice of India's video-gaming industry
GDAI, formed by India's gaming industry stalwarts, is releasing a white paper that laying out a roadmap for incubation and ecosystem development aimed at making the country a global gaming leader
TECHNOLOGY
Elon Musk's xAI rolls out Grok chatbot to all X users, escalating battle with OpenAI and Meta
Grok AI chatbot's rollout to all users on X, comes a day after xAI disclosed a $6 billion funding round from a series of investors.
