Month: April 2020
Smartphones in India get dearer due to GST hike
April 1 is the start of the new financial year in India when new revisions and rates are implemented. One of the more prominent changes was the increase of GST on smartphones from 12% to 18%. With that coming into action, smartphone manufacturers announced new prices for their products. In…
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Japanese flip phone games are coming to the Nintendo Switch
G-Mode, a company that churned out countless Java-based games for Japanese feature phones in the 2000s and beyond, has announced that it will be releasing some of those games on the Nintendo Switch as well. The first game in the new G-Mode Archives series, the 16-bit-ish JRPG Flyhight Cloudia, will…
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You can now join Microsoft Teams meetings from Slack
Slack users can now launch Microsoft Teams calls right from within the popular workplace chat app as the company has launched a new app to allow them to do so. The Microsoft Teams Call beta app has arrived just a few days after Slack first revealed that it was working…
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YouTube will reportedly tackle TikTok with upcoming ‘Shorts’ video feed
There’s no doubt that TikTok and its format of short, music-backed video clips has been a runaway success, filling the void left behind by the likes of Vine years before it. Now, YouTube wants in. According to sources speaking with The Information, the Google-owned video giant is planning a Shorts…
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“A perfect storm for first time managers,” say VCs with their own shops (and who have advice)
Until very recently, it had begun to seem like anyone with a thick enough checkbook and some key contacts in the startup world could not only fund companies as an angel investor but even put himself or herself in business as a fund manager. It helped that the world of…
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Proposed amendments to the Volcker Rule could be a lifeline for venture firms hit by market downturn
In the wake of the financial crisis, Congress passed regulations limiting the types of investments that banks could make into private equity and venture capital funds. As cash strapped investors pull back on commitments to venture funds given the precipitous drop of public market stocks, loosening restrictions on the how…
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