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Podcast: One Thing Today in Tech
Episode: India extends UPI to feature phones; Google buys Mandiant for $5.4 bln; Apple releases new iPhone SE; Swiggy IPO soon
Description: The Reserve Bank of India yesterday launched additional features on the Unified Payments Interface platform that will allow people to make payments even on basic feature phones, which are still widely used in India.
Considering that there are more than 40 crore feature phone mobile subscribers in the country, UPI123pay will materially improve the options for such users to access UPI, it said.
Google has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Mandiant, a leader in dynamic cyber defence and response, for $23.00 per share, in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $5.4 billion, inclusive of Mandiant’s ne...