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Startup funding, unicorns, tech innovation from India and Silicon Valley.

Meet The Most Active Startup Investors Of Q3 2026

India’s startup funding market remained selective in the third quarter of 2026, with investors backing fewer startups even as the…

Inc42 Media — 2026-10-05

RentoMojo Q1: Profit Tanks 39% YoY To ₹7.8 Cr, Revenue Zooms 51%

In its first financial disclosure after becoming a listed entity, furniture and appliance rental startup RentoMojo’s consolidated net profit tanked…

Inc42 Media — 2026-10-05

Flipkart Acquires Minority Stake In Travel Tech Startup TravClan To Scale Offerings

Walmart-owned Flipkart picked up a minority stake in Delhi-based B2B travel tech startup TravClan to bolster its international travel offerings,…

Inc42 Media — 2026-10-05

Marico Acquires Additional Stake In Plix For ₹1,012 Cr, To Complete Buyout By July 2027

Marico has acquired an additional 24.09% stake in plant-based nutrition and personal care brand Plix for ₹1,012.03 Cr in an…

Inc42 Media — 2026-10-05

Snapdeal Makes It To D-Street, But Where’s The Moat?

One of India’s earliest ecommerce marketplaces has finally trotted onto D-Street. After a relatively muted 4.93X subscription to its IPO,…

Inc42 Media — 2026-10-05

[Update] Snapdeal Parent AceVector Ends Market Debut 18.5% Below Issue Price

Update | October 5, 2026 16:40 IST  Snapdeal parent AceVector’s shares closed their maiden trading session at ₹26.10 on the…

Inc42 Media — 2026-10-05

Is Apple Pay’s India Entry Too Late?

The past fortnight has brought several developments around Apple in India. The iPhone 18 Pro and Apple’s foldable iPhone Duo…

Inc42 Media — 2026-10-04

Razorpay Partners With OpenAI To Help Indian Brands Advertise On ChatGPT

IPO-bound Razorpay announced today that it has deepened its partnership with AI major OpenAI to help Indian brands advertise on…

Inc42 Media — 2026-10-05

ideaForge Founder Ankit Mehta Pledges 2.8 Lakh Shares For “Personal Requirements”

Dronetech company ideaForge Technology promoter and CEO Ankit Mehta has pledged 2.8 Lakh shares — 0.56% of the company’s total…

Inc42 Media — 2026-10-05

PhysicsWallah To Sell ₹96 Cr Loan Portfolio To Auxilo Amid Lending Retreat

Edtech major PhysicsWallah’s wholly owned subsidiary FinZ Finance has agreed to sell a ₹95.79 Cr loan portfolio to Auxilo Finserve,…

Inc42 Media — 2026-10-05

Cable lobby to sue Trump FCC over repeal of national TV ownership cap

Cable industry to sue, says FCC can't repeal TV ownership limit set by Congress.

Ars Technica - All content — 2026-10-05

MCP for agent-to-agent comms may be the riskiest protocol you've never heard of

Trust gaps in the new protocol spread malicious prompts from one agent to another.

Ars Technica - All content — 2026-10-05

Reverse-engineered games: All the news on video game decomps, recomps, VR and web and 3D ports

It’s a wild time for retro gaming. Thanks to decompilations and recompilations of classic titles, those games are becoming unshackled from their proprietary code and original hardware to be ported to

The Verge — 2026-10-05

AI game mashup videos on social media spark debate and backlash among players and modders

The Claude-created videos overlay one game on top of another to make a rudimentary ‘mashup’…

Video Games Chronicle — 2026-10-05

Galaxy S25's stable One UI 9.0 update reaches the USA

Samsung has started rolling the stable version of One UI 9.0 (Android 17) to the Galaxy S25 series outside its home country.

SamMobile — 2026-10-05