BharatPe cofounder Ashneer Grover unveils new startup The Third Unicorn, asks VCs to stay out

Grover said be believes in “desi” (homegrown) or “self-earned” capital and won’t tap venture capital for his new startup.

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Teaching tool company Toddle raises $17 million from Sequoia, Matrix, others

Founded in 2019 by Deepanshu Arora, Gautam Arora, Misbah Jafary, Nikhil Poonawala, and Parita Parekh, Bengaluru-based Toddle helps teaching teams improve collaboration for day-to-day work and allows educators around the world to share teaching and learning resources.

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TCS Q3 net grows 11% to Rs 10,846 crore, crosses $7-bn quarterly revenue milestone

India's largest software exporter said revenue came in at ₹58,229 crore, up 19.1% year on year, led by demand for cloud solutions, surpassing analyst estimates.

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India mulls rules for live commerce; Zerodha profit surges 87% in FY22

The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), which is under the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, has begun to assess the need for guidelines for the new form of ecommerce, ET has learnt.

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US Supreme Court lets Meta's WhatsApp pursue 'Pegasus' spyware suit

The justices turned away NSO's appeal of a lower court's decision that the lawsuit could move forward. NSO had argued that it is immune from being sued because it was acting as an agent for unidentified foreign governments when it installed the "Pegasus" spyware.

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Google invests in agritech firm Cropin

With the support of this funding round, Cropin will be able to further invest in its go-to-market efforts and expand the Cropin Cloud's capabilities, including developing next-generation predictive intelligence solutions through Cropin AI Labs.

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iPhone exports from India during April-December double to surpass $2.5 billion

Foxconn Technology Group and Wistron Corp. have each shipped more than $1 billion of Apple’s marquee devices abroad in the first nine months of the fiscal year ending March 2023, people familiar with the matter said.

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