Google wants to be the place where people shop, not just the place where they search for products. On 15 October 2026, it started rolling out Google Universal Cart in the US, a single shopping cart that works across Google…
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Sarvam AI is in talks to raise $250 to 300 million (about â‚ą2,800 crore) at a valuation of around $3 billion, according to an Economic Times report published on October 13, 2026. If the deal closes, the Bengaluru startup’s valuation…
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The PHP 8.6 release date is 19 November 2026. Three release candidates come first, starting with RC3, which was scheduled for 8 October 2026. If you run PHP, Laravel or WordPress sites, you have about six weeks to test your…
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WooCommerce 11.1 was released on 1 September 2026 with 561 pull requests from 77 contributors. It is backwards compatible but runs a database update, and a few of its changes quietly affect custom plugins, headless builds and REST integrations (official…
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India’s digital payments market is set to double. It will go from $3.6 trillion in FY24 to $7 trillion by FY30, according to a joint study by Kearney and Amazon Pay. That’s a doubling in six years. It comes on…
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NPCI announced this week that UPI transactions above â‚ą2,000 will now carry a Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) of 0.4%, starting October 15, 2026. If you run a business that accepts UPI, or you just pay for things with it every…
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How your business takes money isn’t just a simple transaction; it’s a key moment that can either help you grow or hold you back. Getting your payment strategy right isn’t only for big companies. For any business owner, making it…
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An Indian startup just did something most tech companies spend a decade trying to do. Emergent, an AI coding platform founded by two brothers in Bengaluru, crossed the $1 billion valuation mark in just over a year after launch. Not…
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The tech world is buzzing this week after a new round of layoffs was confirmed at Salesforce. While job cuts in tech aren’t exactly new anymore, this particular move has caught everyone’s attention—not just because of who is getting let…
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Over the last few months, something interesting has been happening in the developer community. Tools like Claude AI are getting smarter, not just a little, but fast enough to actually make people uncomfortable. There are developers openly saying that they…
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