Category Tech

Tiny Snips, Business, Tech

TS #11 – The Quest for Metaverse

Metaverse refers to a virtual world, think Fortnite, Minecraft, the movie Ready Player One or even GTA. Recently, Epic Games, the creator of Fortnite raised $1 billion to fund its vision of a Metaverse, valuing the company at $28.7 billion . Another notable player in…

Shreesha S
April 22, 2021

Tiny Snips, Business, Tech

TS #10 – Chips in Cars

These days with cars becoming more and more like extended PCs with autonomous driving, electric cells and whatnot, semiconductor chips form a major part of its architecture. In its recent event – GPU Technology Conference or GTC 2021, Nvidia proposed its plans for…

Shreesha S
April 21, 2021

Tiny Snips, Business, Miscellaneous, Tech

TS #9 – Shop Eco-Friendly with EcoCart

EcoCart is a company that helps offset carbon emissions. It is actually a browser extension. The way they work is, they have partnerships with about 10,000 ecommerce companies. When you shop on these sites, they provide you with an option…

Shreesha S
April 21, 2021

Tiny Snips, Business, Tech

TS #8 – The Indian Trifecta for Tesla

Tesla is planning to open its showrooms in 3 Indian cities :- New Delhi – The National Capital and second most populated city. Mumbai – The Financial hub and the most populous city. Also home to the highest number of millionaires and…

Shreesha S
April 19, 2021

Tiny Snips, Business, Tech

TS #7 – Grab this super-app!

The Singaporean start-up Grab, started as a ride-hailing platform in 2011, thereafter underwent mutating transformations to become a “Super-app” providing everything from food delivery to third-party ecommerce logistics to financial services. It is set to go public at a valuation of $39.6 billion through a…

Shreesha S
April 19, 2021

Tiny Snips, Business, Miscellaneous, Tech

TS #5 – Meet Mr. “Bleep”

Intel is launching an AI solution to recognize and redact hate-speech real time called Bleep. Developed with game streamers in mind, the solution aims to provide an interface where they can customize how much of “Racism” or other kinds of hate…

Shreesha S
April 17, 2021

Tiny Snips, Business, Miscellaneous, Tech

TS #4 – Netflix x Sony Pictures

Netflix grabbed exclusive streaming rights to entire set of movies to be released by Sony Pictures in 2022 as a part of a multi-year deal. That might include the sequel to “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse”!The deal will also allow Netflix…

Shreesha S
April 17, 2021

Tiny Snips, Business, Miscellaneous, Tech

TS #3 – Snap x Screenshop x KKW

Snap acquired Screenshop which was endorsed by Kim Kardashian West, who was earlier an advisor on the UI of the company. Phew, that was a mouthful! Screenshop is a fashion recommendation app that analyses the user’s photos using AI to understand their preferences and then recommends…

Shreesha S
April 17, 2021

Tiny Snips, Business, Finance, Tech

TS #2 – Plaid Reborn

Plaid which was almost bought by VISA for $5.3 billion – in a deal that was blocked by the regulators as it was thought VISA would have a monopoly over the online debit card market – recently raised $425 million…

Shreesha S
April 15, 2021