
It’s disheartening how much power gets generated and then promptly lost as it travels through grid networks. This leaking of electricity happens when it vanishes as heat as well as when it is pilfered by thieves and nonpaying customers. More than hal…
Fitbit Air costs around $146 in India, roughly $47 more than its U.S. pricing.

TakeMe2Space, a space startup from India, will send its MOI-1A satellite to orbit on 1 October on a SpaceX rideshare flight, Transporter-18. The Hyderabad company calls it India’s first orbital computing satellite, since it can analyse data in space an…

Google’s $15bn AI datacentre project in Andhra Pradesh has state environmental clearance for 2.51GW of capacity, more than double the 1GW announced, according to clearance papers seen by the Guardian. Hannah Ellis-Petersen and Aakash Hassan reported th…

Amazon will spend $3bn to grow its quick-commerce business in India by 2030, Reuters reported on Thursday, citing two people who know the plans directly. Quick commerce is the term for app orders that reach shoppers within minutes. Amazon declined to c…

“We are thrilled to partner with Nexperia for manufacturing their products at our semiconductor facilities in Dholera and Jagiroad,” said Randhir Thakur, chief executive of Tata Electronics. The Dutch chipmaker and the Indian manufacturer announced a p…

Apple Pay is expected to launch in India next month, beginning with credit cards issued by Axis Bank, three people familiar with the plans told Reuters. Apple declined to comment. So, in effect, did everybody else. The service will widen to other lende…

India’s Serious Fraud Investigation Office has recommended a detailed investigation into Xiaomi’s business in the country, according to an internal document examining how money moved through the company’s Indian operations and whether it obtained the a…

Pixxel, the Indian company that has spent six years arguing that Earth observation is worth doing in colours the human eye cannot see, has raised $100M in a Series C round led by Singapore’s state investor Temasek and the London-listed Seraphim Space I…

Ultrahuman has raised $70m, and the pitch it made to get the money is not a better sleep score. The Indian company wants its smart ring to stop being a tracker and start running software. TechCrunch’s Jagmeet Singh reported the round first, with an int…