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India's newest billionaire is a former classroom teacher who developed an education app that's grown to a valuation of almost $6 billion in about seven years. Byju Raveendran joined the rarefied club after his Think & Learn Pvt scored $150 million (roughly Rs. 1,000 crores) in funding earlier this month. That deal conferred a value of $5.7 billion (roughly Rs. 39,000 crores) on the company in which the founder owns more than 21 percent, people familiar with the matter said. Its closing coincided with the announcement that the company's Byju's app - named after the founder - will team up with Walt Disney Co, and taking its service to American shores by early 2020. The 37-year-old entrepreneur - who has said he wants to do for Indian education what the Mouse House did for entertainment - is taking his biggest step yet geographically and creatively. In his new app, Disney staples from The Lion King's Simba to Frozen's Anna teach math and Engl...

Oppo on Monday showcased its new innovation – a ‘Waterfall Screen. It is essentially a display that has almost no bezels and sharp curved edges. The curved edges of Oppo's Waterfall Screen are more pronounced than the curved-edged display seen on Samsung and Huawei flagships. A dummy Oppo phone shown by the company sports a notch-less and almost bezel-less front. The phone has no physical buttons on the sides, and there's no notch or cut-out of any kind for the front camera in the official images shared by the company. Oppo VP, Brian Shen shared the official photos of the new Oppo Waterfall Screen technology. The display is seen to flow over the edges, like a waterfall. Given that this technology has been introduced in the second half of 2019, we could see it integrated in a new Oppo phone sometime early next year or even later year.

FaceApp, the photo editing app with age filters that have made the app viral virtually overnight, seems to be now blocking users from India. The app is still available for to download for Android and iOS respectively from Google Play and Apple's App Store, but trying to use FaceApp from India now leads to error. The FaceApp block was reported by users on Twitter and confirmed independently by Gadgets 360. We've reached out to the company behind the app for a comment on the development, and will update this story as and when we hear from them. If you are on Android and trying to use FaceApp from India, you might now be greeted with an error "Something went wrong, Please try again". iOS users are getting a more cryptic "ApiRequestError error 6 - Operation couldn't be completed" message. The problem was first reported by some Twitter users, and confirmed by Gadgets 360, as seen in the screenshots above. FaceApp which uses AI to apply variou...

Netflix said on Wednesday it would roll out a lower-priced mobile-only plan in India, tapping into a price-sensitive market where data consumption on smartphones is surging. The video streaming pioneer said in March that it was testing a Rs. 250 ($3.63) monthly subscription for mobile devices in India, where data plans are among the cheapest in the world. Netflix's new plan is aimed at battling cheaper offerings from rivals such as Amazon's Prime Video and Hotstar, a video streaming platform owned by Walt Disney's India unit. "After several months of testing, we've decided to roll out a lower-priced mobile-screen plan in India to complement our existing plans,” Netflix said in a letter to its shareholders. “We believe this plan, which will launch in Q3, will be an effective way to introduce a larger number of people in India to Netflix and to further expand our business in a market where Pay TV ARPU is low (below $5). We will continue to learn...

Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus Coming.. Qualcomm has announced Snapdragon 855 Plus, a mid-cycle refresh to its flagship Snapdragon 855 SoC, which is claimed to offer better graphics performance and a slight edge in core computing prowess. The only major hardware-level difference between the Snapdragon 855 Plus and the Snapdragon 855 is that the new chipset is clocked at a slightly higher speed, and the GPU has received a 15 percent performance boost as well. The first phone to come equipped with the Snapdragon 855 Plus platform is the Asus ROG Phone 2, which is expected to go official later this month. Qualcomm claims that the Snapdragon 855 Plus has been designed to offer improved gaming performance and enhanced experiences when it comes to 5G, AI processing, AR, and VR. Qualcomm    aims to leverage the added power delivered by the Snapdragon 855 Plus to further boost the output from Snapdragon Elite Gaming Experience and provide an optimised gaming expe...

  Realme X and Realme 3i will launch in India today. The Realme X is the company's flagship release, and was launched in China back in May. Well, the long wait for the Realme X's arrival in India will soon be over, thanks to today's launch event, where we will learn about the Realme X price in India, how its specifications differ from the China variant, its release date, launch offers, and more. The Realme 3i on the other hand is a new budget smartphone from the Oppo spin-off brand, and will be unveiled for the first time today at the launch event. Realme X, Realme 3i launch live stream timings, link Realme X and Realme 3i will be launched at 12:30pm IST, and you can watch the live stream right here. The company will also be live streaming the launch on its Facebook Page. We can expect Realme to reveal the price in India, specifications, and release details of the Realme X and Realme 3i at the launch event. Stay tuned to Gadgets 360 for all the details f...

Amazon Prime Day sale will kick off on Monday, July 15, and will continue for the next 48 hours. This year's Prime Day sale will be the company's longest yet, exactly 12 hours longer than last year. Amazon is promising a much bigger event this year with a million deals available globally and a lot more entertainment via Prime Video and Prime Music. The two-day global shopping event will bring thousands of deals and offers. With less than a week to go, it's a good time to start preparing for Amazon's Prime Day 2019 sale event. The sale presents a good chance to save some money but also enhances the risk of overshooting your budget by spending all your money on impulse purchases. But if you're well prepared and set clear goals, you need not worry. Get Amazon Prime membership, if you don't have it already First things first, you'll need to be an Amazon Prime member to enjoy all those exciting deals and offers on Prime Day 2019. In India, Am...