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Mayank Bidawatka, who built India’s Twitter rival Koo, raises $4M for his new startup Billion Hearts

The seed round has been led by Blume Ventures with participation from General Catalyst and Athera Venture Partners.

November 20, 2024 12:00 IST

Not only national, Koo, even regional apps are failing to get consumer traction

Voice-based social networking platform, Hoote (now Huut), launched by Soundarya Rajinikanth has gone inoperative just over two years since its…

July 10, 2024 03:00 IST

Koo was launched in 2019 but only became a known product around March-April 2021

Mind over matter

Koo’s failure shows companies need to focus more on the battle of perception

July 8, 2024 05:00 IST

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Koo halts salary payments from April

Koo was reportedly in talks to be acquired by news aggregator platform Dailyhunt and short-video app Josh’s parent company VerSe…

April 26, 2024 05:30 IST

Koo’s new Premium feature to allow users monetise content

By opting for Koo Premium, content creators can offer specialised content to their subscribers and charge a weekly or monthly…

June 16, 2023 02:30 IST

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Koo fires 30% staff on funding crunch

The Tiger Global-backed company has laid off employees in two cycles from September to March, people in the know said.

April 21, 2023 02:30 IST

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Koo, Twitter’s rival in India, fires 30% staff on funding crunch

The three-year-old microblogging app dismissed 30% of its about 260 workers as the “global sentiment right now is more focused…

April 20, 2023 12:02 IST

Koo loses traction on active user count

Homegrown microblogging platform Koo has scaled up fast with a download of 60 million in the last three years.

March 28, 2023 06:15 IST

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Koo looks to widen base with more focus on English-speaking users

So far, Koo has positioned itself as an app for native language speakers in the country.

November 8, 2022 05:35 IST

Cost control: Koo lays off 15 employees

It was earlier reported that it had sacked 40 of its employees.

Updated: September 7, 2022 17:10 IST

Koo launches Topics feature across 10 languages making it first social media app to do so

Koo launches new Topics feature, details inside

Updated: August 23, 2022 15:44 IST

Oppn parties, India Inc members still missing from Koo

Homegrown platform lacks vibrancy of Twitter.

May 31, 2022 03:10 IST

The platform, which is currently available in India in 10 languages, including English, has operations in Nigeria, and is looking at more multilingual countries like Indonesia as "priority" nations for overseas expansion, he said.

Microblogging platform Koo bets on rapid user base growth to overtake Twitter in India within one year

It has already raised USD 45 million and will “revisit funding plans” by the end of the 2022, he said,…

May 13, 2022 17:19 IST

These algorithms were made public on Koo's website, according to a statement.

Koo makes algorithms public; pledges commitment to transparency, neutrality

Last week, the world’s richest man Elon Musk offered to buy Twitter for USD 43 billion and has since been…

April 20, 2022 18:40 IST

The feature, announced on Wednesday, will bring credibility to the platform. (IE)

India’s Twitter rival Koo adds voluntary self-verification via Government ID: How to verify

The Indian micro-blogging platform, billed as a rival to Twitter, will use a government-issued ID or Aadhaar to verify users’…

April 6, 2022 18:05 IST

Breaking down India’s quest to build its own Twitter: Can Koo chirp louder than the blue bird

This isn’t the first time that an Indian startup is operating in a market dominated by foreign rivals. Ola vs…

February 18, 2021 21:26 IST

Startup Talk: Co-founders of Koo, Indian Twitter rival app, clear the air on data privacy, trolling and more

Aprameya Radhakrishna and Mayank Bidawatka, co-founders of Indian social networking platform Koo, seen as a Twitter competitor talk about the…

Updated: February 18, 2021 15:01 IST

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