Mumbai-based agri-tech startup Farmlink has raised $3 million from  Switzerland-headquartered Pioneering Ventures and agrochemical firm Syngenta, a global Swiss agribusiness that produces agrochemicals and seeds. This is company's first institutional round of funding. In 2014, Farmlink was incubated by Pioneering Ventures. With the newly acquired funding, Farmlink is planning to expand its network of collection and…

Waymo, the very famous autonomous vehicle division of Alphabet, Google's parent company, has recently launched cars on public roads in the Phoenix metropolitan area with no one behind the wheel (not even a safety driver). Starting very soon, the company is planning to invite regular people for trying their self-driving vehicles. As of now, a Waymo employee…

Mumbai based Fintech startup, Kissht has raised $10 million led by China's Fosun International along with the participation from existing investors, Ventureast and Endiya Partners. Kissht will use the recently acquired funds for improving is data science capabilities as well as building its engineering and analytics. It is also hoping to grow its presence all over the…

Amazon Echo has officially become the first smart speaker to be available in India. Powered by Alexa, the Intelligent AI based voice assistant from Amazon, the Echo line of speakers are available at 30% discount in India which makes it cheaper compared to the prices in US and other international locations. These devices are currently…

Microsoft owns  and operates its web search engine Bing which was launched at the All Things Digital conference held in May 2009 in San Diego, California. This search engine is a successor it's previous search engines such as Windows Live Search and MSN search and is designed using their proprietary ASP .NET technology. Though Bing is used…

Security researchers  have uncovered a new breed of Android ransomware named DoubleLocker which has been spreading recently. This ransomware can not only encrypt all your device data but will also lock your phone and change the PIN required to unlock the target device. Since the device gets locked, it is almost impossible for users to recover…