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Kitchen app Sortizy gets $100,000 in funding round led by Campus Fund

Founded in 2020, Sortizy offers recipes and cooking lessons on video as well as a feature that allows users to plan their meals as well grocery purchases. It was recognised by Google Play India as the best app of 2021 in the everyday essentials category.

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Google trackers are in 97% of Indian websites, study finds

The study involved 201 Indian mobile apps and websites from 100 organisations across 25 industries. Arrka tracked various privacy parameters over five years. Here are some of its findings.

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Ashneer Grover praises ‘legend’ Uday Kotak amid legal battle

"Uday Kotak is a legend. I had the fortune of starting my career in Kotak...and can tell you no one understands or does finance better in India!" Grover says in a comment to a LinkedIn post.

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Startup Inc begins year with a bang, snags $3.5 billion in Jan

The strong showing comes in the wake of a mega year for venture capital investments as Indian startups mopped up $34.7 billion across 1070 deals in calendar year 2021.

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'Needle and the damage done': The Spotify-Neil Young controversy explained

Spotify which decided to take off Young’s catalogue from its platform, has since come under intense criticism for supporting Rogan, who hosts one of its most commercially popular podcasts.

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BharatPe founder Ashneer Grover's wife also goes on leave amid company conducting independent audit

BharatPe serves over 75 lakh merchants across 150 cities. The company has already facilitated the disbursement of loans totalling over Rs 3,000 crore to its merchants since its launch.

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USCIS to accept H-1B visa registrations from March 1, 2022

USCIS will assign a confirmation number to each registration submitted for the FY 2023 H-1B cap, which can be used to track registrations. Under the new system the agency now follows, applicants will register electronically and pay a $10 registration fee.

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Yellow.ai deploys 30% of global generative AI bots domestically

While markets like the US are mostly using GenAI for customer support in a bid to cut costs, India Inc. is using them as an opportunity to g...