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FrontRow, a hobby-learning and community platform featuring celebrities in India, has shut down, TechCrunch has learned and confirmed. The three-year-old startup sought to build a community where well-known artists and athletes taught their craft to consumers. The startup had raised about $18 million and counted Elevation Capital, Eight Roads Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Not Boring Capital among its backers. Ishaan Preet Singh, co-founder of FrontRow, confirmed the development to…

James Webb has captured a beautiful snapshot of star birth in the Virgo constellation. The latest image from the powerful observatory takes a closer look at the barred spiral galaxy NGC 5068. These types of galaxies are known for the bright central bar that runs across them, which you’ll be able to spot in the upper left-hand corner of the new image. The galaxy itself is located in the Virgo constellation, roughly 20 million light-years from Earth. What makes this image so intriguing and peculiar, though, is…

Edtech major Byju's on Thursday said that less than 500 people have been laid off at WhiteHat Jr and Toppr, but sacked employees have claimed that 1100 staff had been retrenched at Toppr alone.The layoff at Toppr comes alongside Byju's group firm WhiteHat Jr retrenching 300 employees in addition to the resignation of 250 employees from the company in April-May."To recalibrate our business priorities and accelerate our long-term growth, we are optimising our teams across our group companies. This entire exercise involves…

Edtech major Byju's on Thursday said that less than 500 people have been laid off at Whitehat Jr and Toppr, but sacked employees have claimed that 1100 staff had been retrenched at Toppr alone.The layoff at Toppr comes alongside Byju's group firm Whitehat Jr retrenching 300 employees in addition to the resignation of 250 employees from the company in April-May."To recalibrate our business priorities and accelerate our long-term growth, we are optimising our teams across our group companies. This entire exercise involves…

Image Source : MPL MPL Mobile Premier League, a gaming unicorn recently got the eyes when India's largest vernacular gaming platform named WinZo filed a lawsuit against MPL over alleged copyright violation in Delhi High Court . WinZo said in a statement on Saturday that the matter is now listed for further proceedings on July 4. The platform said that in March, it discovered that MPL copied its proprietary game 'World War' with a similar product, in an identical format with the identical name. When this was brought…

A Edtech firm FrontRow on Monday laid off nearly 150 full-time and contractual employees, media reports said.The Bengaluru-based non-academic upskilling startup fired almost 30 per cent of its workforce, owing to fund crunch and the market downturn.It has become the latest online learning portal after WhiteHat Jr, Unacademy, and Vedantu to sack its employees."As we've scaled our business over the last year, we have invested heavily in growth, particularly as we've been creating a new category," Founder Ishaan Preet Singh…