Competition
Facebook Fuel For India 2020: Mark Zukerberg, Mukesh Ambani, others highlight opportunities, potential in Indian digital spaceedit
English Jagran – Online Web
The event saw participation from top leaders at Facebook and its group companies and partners. These include Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, Instagram head Adam Mosseri, Unacademy cofounder Gaurav Munjal, Whitehat Jr founder Karan Bajaj and Samsung India Senior VP Asim Warsi among others.
Sourav Ganguly Joins Online Education Endorsements Bandwagon, Invests In Startup Tooedit
Republic World – Online Web
With BYJU’s being the Indian cricket teams shirt sponsor and Unacademy being one of the associate Dream11 IPL sponsors, Ganguly’s addition to the list of endorsing online education might spur other Indian sportspersons to take similar steps in the future.
Industry
Survey tells the language students preferedit
The New Indian Express – Online Web
Brainly, an online learning platform, surveyed its Indian user base to find out the most prevalent and preferred languages amongst students. The survey, called ‘Popular foreign languages considered by Indian students’, registered 3,206 responses and gave in-depth insights into the increasing demand for native and non-native languages.
Help your kids in e-learning during pandemicedit
The Hans India – Online Web
Covid-19 has posed such an emergency situation that the whole educational system has switched to e-learning in order to keep the students engaged in their academics.
Edtech giant upGrad buys a recruitment firm pitting it against the likes of Naukri.comedit
Business Insider Money Control Business Standard -Online Web
Indian edtech startup upGrad has acquired a recruitment and staffing solutions firm Rekrut India. startup has acquired a and staffing solutions firm Rekrut India. The acquisition will make way for learners on upGrad to take advantage of Rekrut’s hiring network.