Alibabaβs Qwen tech lead steps down after major AI push TechCrunch By:Jagmeet Singh 4 March 2026 at 03:16 Reactions rippled through Alibaba's Qwen team after tech lead Junyang Lin stepped down following a major model launch.
Indiaβs Pronto formalizes house help as its valuation jumps 8x in under a year TechCrunch By:Jagmeet Singh 3 March 2026 at 05:15 Pronto handles 18,000 daily bookings and plans rapid expansion as it races rivals to digitize India's largely offline home services market.
Google looks to tackle longstanding RCS spam in India β but not alone TechCrunch By:Jagmeet Singh 1 March 2026 at 21:30 Google is integrating carrier-level filtering into RCS in India through a partnership with Airtel to strengthen protections against spam.
India disrupts access to popular developer platform Supabase with blocking order TechCrunch By:Jagmeet Singh 28 February 2026 at 07:51 India, one of Supabaseβs biggest markets, is seeing patchy access after a government block order.