{"id":829407,"date":"2024-07-04T10:37:18","date_gmt":"2024-07-04T05:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=829407"},"modified":"2024-07-04T10:37:18","modified_gmt":"2024-07-04T05:07:18","slug":"indian-social-media-app-koo-shuts-down-read-ceos-emotional-note","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/07\/04\/indian-social-media-app-koo-shuts-down-read-ceos-emotional-note\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian social media app Koo shuts down: Read CEO\u2019s \u2018emotional note\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Koo, India&#8217;s homegrown microblogging platform with about 10 million active users, is wrapping up its operations after failing to secure crucial partnerships and funding. Co-founders Aprameya Radhakrishna and Mayank Bidawatka announced the shutdown on LinkedIn, citing unsuccessful acquisition talks with potential buyers.<br \/>\n&#8220;We explored partnerships with multiple larger internet companies, conglomerates and media houses but these talks didn&#8217;t yield the outcome we wanted,&#8221; the founders stated in a LinkedIn post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Koo, India&#8217;s homegrown microblogging platform with about 10 million active users, is wrapping up its operations after failing to secure crucial partnerships and funding. Co-founders Aprameya Radhakrishna and Mayank Bidawatka announced the shutdown on LinkedIn, citing unsuccessful acquisition talks with potential buyers. &#8220;We explored partnerships with multiple larger internet companies, conglomerates and media houses but these talks didn&#8217;t yield the outcome we wanted,&#8221; the founders stated in a LinkedIn post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-829407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=829407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=829407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=829407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=829407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}