Partnership

Motorola shared a few key announcements at this year’s MWC: all of its future smartphones will use Corning Gorilla Glass. Motorola already uses Gorilla Glass on most of its flagship and midrange phones. Still, the new announcement confirms that even the entry-level Moto phones will offer better scratch and drop resistance thanks to Corning’s products. By using Corning Gorilla Glass across all Motorola franchises, we aim to lead the industry by ensuring that every consumer has access to the durability and…

Reddit is notoriously known for having a bad search engine, and for years everyone preferred to use Google Search, instead of the platform's own. Today, the platform revealed that this will not change, but rather the partnership with Google will expand. Google will gain access to the network's Data API, and in return, content and communities will be easier to find. Reddit builds upon its existing partnership with Google Cloud and will integrate new AI-powered capabilities to improve the website, the two companies…

Published By: Samreen PallLast Updated: February 23, 2024, 11:19 ISTUber partners with India's ONDC for Bus and Metro Bookings.Uber partners with India's ONDC, exploring bus & metro bookings. A move to win users, compete locally & promote public transport. Sparse details revealed.Uber is exploring offerings such as intercity bus and metro rail ticket bookings in India as part of a partnership with a government backed e-commerce initiative, a source told Reuters on Thursday.CEO Dara Khosrowshahi was in India’s…

Seetha Mahalaxmi Healthcare (SML) in partnership with the IIT Bombay-led BharatGPT ecosystem, has unveiled ‘Hanooman’, a series of Indic large language models trained on 22 Indian languages.“We have built an enterprise-ready family of foundational language models ranging up to 40 billion parameters in terms of size,” Vishnu Vardhan, founder of SML, told ET. “The first four among the series which are 1.5 billion, 7 billion, 13 billion and 40 billion parameters will be released next month and will be open-sourced.”Elevate…

As the MLS season gets ready to kick off, Beats has announced a global partnership with the soccer league with some seriously cool exclusive colorways of the Beats Studio Pro. In a press release, Beats announced the multi-year agreement with eight MLS clubs that will receive “custom Beats headphones exclusively created for the teams.” The teams selected for the 2024 MLS season are Atlanta United, Columbus Crew, LAFC, Nashville SC, NYCFC, St. Louis CITY SC, Toronto FC, and Lionel Messi’s Inter Miami. Beats also announced…

Ecommerce major Flipkart's C-suite is undergoing a rejig amid the etailer's push for agility and profitability. Details on this and more in today’s ETtech Morning Dispatch.Also in this letter:■ Govt, EV firms discuss interoperability■ More takers for DPI-as-a-Service model■ Mswipe Technologies bags PA licenceShake-up in senior ranks underway at Flipkart Hi, this is Samidha Sharma in Mumbai. My colleague Digbijay and I have exclusive details of a major senior-level shakeup that’s underway at India’s largest ecommerce…

To give AI-focused women academics and others their well-deserved — and overdue — time in the spotlight, TechCrunch is launching a series of interviews focusing on remarkable women who’ve contributed to the AI revolution. We’ll publish several pieces throughout the year as the AI boom continues, highlighting key work that often goes unrecognized. Read more profiles here. As an AI expert at the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the Global Partnership on AI (GPAI), an international…

Both Paramount Plus and Peacock have been working hard to court subscribers in order to further solidify their respective statuses as lasting players in the streaming space, but according to a new report, the platforms’ parent companies could be considering a unique partnership.The Wall Street Journal reports that Comcast and Paramount have been in recent talks about a potential streaming partnership that could see Paramount Plus and Peacock being offered to subscribers together as a package deal. Along with making access…

Volkswagen Group and Mahindra aim to strengthen their e-mobility footprint in the Indian automotive market and to accelerate electrification in the region.Volkswagen Group and Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (M&M) have signed the first supply agreement on components of Volkswagen´s MEB for Mahindra’s purpose-built electric platform INGLO, taking a definitive step further on their joint vision for e-mobility collaboration. The deal covers the supply of certain electric…

Paytm Payments Bank officials were questioned by the Directorate of Enforcement earlier this week over potential breaches of foreign exchange laws by its users. More on this in today’s ETtech Morning Dispatch.Also in the letter:■ Govt’s new incentive for Tesla■ Card networks seek clarity from RBI■ Q-commerce feels the love on Valentine’s DayED quizzes Paytm Payments Bank officials Officials from Paytm Payments Bank were summoned by the Directorate of Enforcement (ED) for interrogation earlier this week, sources…