Startups’ annus horribilis; and other top tech stories this week

Indian startups are closing 2023 with a cloud of uncertainty looming large over them.

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Funding in Indian startups sinks to its lowest since 2017

Investments till date at $7 billion for 2023; Oct-Dec least funded quarter since July-Sept 2016, show data

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News publishers are fighting Big Tech over peanuts. They could be owed billions.

The settlement is far less than Canada wanted -- it had sought $126 million -- and a small fraction of the estimated $550 million that news publishers deserve from Google.

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Memory, storage products made at Micron ATMP in Sanand will be largely exported: Micron MD Anand Ramamoorthy

On Monday, agreements for ensuring project milestones are met on time, and for disbursement of incentives, were signed among Micron, India Semiconductor Mission (ISM) and Government of Gujarat.

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Binance withdraws Abu Dhabi licence bid as crypto giant weighs structure

The Binance unit, called BV Investment Management, pulled the application with Abu Dhabi's financial regulator, a spokesperson for Binance said on Thursday.

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Musk says his AI firm xAI is rolling out chatbot Grok to X Premium+ subscribers

Musk announced it in a post on X, without revealing anymore details of the launch. Last month, he had said that as soon as Grok was out of early beta testing, it would become available to the subscribers.

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WhatsApp introduces "view once" feature for voice notes

The feature allows users to designate voice notes as "View Once." This enhances privacy by preventing the recipient from exporting, forwarding, saving, or recording the voice note. The "View Once" audio will disappear once the recipient listens to it.

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