July 2nd, 2016Valued in a groundbreaking development for the Indian entrepreneurial landscape, Venture Catalysts has secured $500000 amount from Zaffiro Ventures.
VCats was valued at Rs. 40 crore during the investment process, marking a major landmark in the six months of its operations and underlining its position as the fastest growing seed...
July 1st, 2016How will your retirement life look like? Have you thought anything about it? Most of us would give the answer in No. Most of us believe the idea of living in the present time and therefore, we end up ignoring the future. We splurge on things, and retirement planning is most often left for people above 45 or 50 years.
According to the...
June 30th, 2016International payment gateway PayPal today began a service to safeguard cross-border digital transactions which will, in turn, insulate sellers and buyers from frauds.
Under the companys seller protection programme for intangibles, two types of buyer complaints will be covered ? Unauthorised Transaction, when a buyer claims that he or...
June 28th, 2016Mahindra Partners, an entity of USD 900 million Mahindra groups private equity arm, today announced closing of a new round of funding in Scoot Networks, an urban mobility solutions provider based in San Francisco.
With this deal, Mahindra Partners has now joined other investors including Vision Ridge Capital.
This financing round...
June 28th, 20164xLabs, a fintech start-up, has expanded its regional operations to India with the official launch of its currency aggregator app, Get4x, in Mumbai.
The location-based app, which was first launched in Singapore, allows travelers to search for the best foreign exchange rates being offered by money changers in cities like Bangkok, Hong...
June 27th, 2016Wirecard AG is negotiating with representatives of Alipay, a unit of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, about it taking a stake of up to 25 percent in the German banking software company, a newspaper reported on Sunday.
Without citing its sources, the Bild am Sonntag weekly said Wirecard was in confidential talks with Alipay about it...
June 22nd, 2016The relaxation of FDI norms in e-commerce will help grocery startups access funds more easily, domestic ratings agency Icra said today.
"The move to open up the domestically manufactured food products sector to FDI will enable farmers to directly sell their produce to retailers, thereby reducing margins for middlemen," it said in...
June 22nd, 2016A new mobile app, Nanu, has started offering free calling service, including on mobile numbers and landline connections -- a facility on which private telecom operators have raised objection before sector regulator Trai and government.
"If you read the Indian Telegraph Act, you can interpret that every form of data transmission...
June 21st, 2016<span class="articleLocation" style="transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px);">Facebook Inc shareholders approved a proposal to create a new class of non-voting shares, a move aimed at letting Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg give away his wealth without relinquishing control of the social media company he founded.
The...
June 13th, 2016Gurgaon's Signature Start Up Masterclass session had the storyteller Arunabh Kumar who shared his passion to paycheck journey during a free-wheeling chat with the host Cyrus Sahukar.
Signature Start Up Masterclass is a celebration of the real-life success stories and provides a unique platform for passionate individuals who are...
June 12th, 2016Internet devices firm Gaia Smart Cities has acquired Internet of Things business of communications service provider Netcore in a an equity deal.
"We have finalised deal to acquire IoT business of Netcore in an equity deal. Gaia will get ownership of Netcores IoT business and Netcore will invest in Gaia," Gaia Smart Cities Founder...