IBM is close to finalising a roughly $11 billion acquisition of data-infrastructure firm Confluent, according to a Wall Street Journal report, in what would be the tech giant’s biggest bet yet to strengthen its cloud software and AI ambitions. The deal, which…

CognitiveLab has launched NetraEmbed, a new multimodal multilingual document retrieval model that supports 22 languages and the company claims  delivers about 150% improvement over existing baselines.  The announcement was shared on December 8, along with…

Elon Musk’s satellite-internet venture Starlink has finally revealed the pricing for its residential plan in India, signalling that the long-awaited commercial rollout is now imminent. The company has updated the Starlink India website to list a monthly subscription…

As India accelerates its smartphone innovation and manufacturing ecosystem, a new frontier is emerging—satellite-connected phones.  There is renewed momentum in satellite communication, with players like SpaceX’s Starlink and Bharti Global–backed OneWeb racing…

The days when blackboards and books defined Indian classrooms are passé. Touchscreens, apps and chatbots now mediate how millions of children learn. Global tech giants have taken notice as well—Google’s education suite, Microsoft’s Copilot for students and…

Tata Group and Intel announced that they will work together to develop semiconductor and computing capabilities in India. The alliance, formed through a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), aims to support the expansion of local manufacturing, packaging, and…

Oven, the company behind the JavaScript runtime Bun, had raised roughly $26 million in venture funding and still generated zero revenue.  Despite that, usage continued to climb—Bun’s monthly downloads grew 25% in October, crossing 7.2 million.  “When people…

Setu by Pine Labs has introduced an agentic bill-payments experience on December 9. According to the company’s press release, it is designed to simplify how consumers track and pay their monthly bills. Pine Labs is an API-enabled technology platform which…

Across India, this winter carries an unsettling undertone. With the festive season underway, along with the changing weather patterns, pollution levels have surged again across most of northern India. The National Capital Region, like every year, seems to…

By 2026, the biggest change in technology will not be a new model release or a new cloud service, but how software engineering will turn into AI native. As vibe coding takes the centre stage with multiple AI coding tools in the market, software engineering…