Media major Star India is quite upbeat over the viewership numbers of Hotstar and gearing up to engage more global audience by placing high quality Indian content on its video streaming platform, said a top official. Speaking to Pixr8, Star India Managing Director Sanjay Gupta said, “Hotstar is witnessing over 100 million new users coming to the platform every month across the globe.” As part of […]
The number of telecom subscribers dwindled by 1.58 crore to 118.5 crore in November, even as Reliance Jio continued to lead in customer addition with over 15 crore subscribers, as per a report by Trai. “The number of telephone subscribers in India declined from 1,201.72 million at the end of October 2017 to 1,185.88 million […]
[dropcap]B[/dropcap]engaluru based healthcare startup that provides social care support for senior citizens has raised an undisclosed amount of funding from Hong Kong based entrepreneur Rugmini Menon, it said in a press statement. This fresh funding will be used to boost up its operations and strengthen its customer management technology. Founded back in 2015 by Vandana […]
Bharti Airtel Ltd is acquiring the Tata conglomerate consumer mobile business virtually free of charge in a deal that gives India’s top wireless player a major subscriber base boost, while stemming the bleed for Tata from a money-losing venture. Bharti Airtel will gain over 40 million customers from Tata Teleservices and a subsidiary along with […]
What is now being termed as ‘Jio-effect’, Airtel partners with Karbonn Mobiles, to offer a 4G smartphone- the Karbonn A40 Indian for Rs 1,399, undercutting Reliance Jio’s 4G feature phone, which was ‘effectively free’, priced at Rs 1,500. The initiative will see the telecom network join hands with more OEMs in the days to come to […]
Finnish mobile games maker Rovio Entertainment Ltd set a price range on Friday for its planned listing that would value the maker of “Angry Birds” at up to $1.1 billion, well below potential values cited in media reports.
Indias largest telecom operator Bharti Airtel in talks with multiple handset makers to bring a 4G smartphone for a price as low as Rs 2,500-2,700 to take on Reliance Jio. While Mukesh Ambani-led Jio has announced plans to offer Internet-enabled feature phone for a refundable deposit of Rs 1,500, Airtel is placing its bet on a […]
India’s leading online travel company,MakeMyTrip announced on Wednesday about the resignation of its cofounder and President Ashish Kashyap, with effect from September 30, 2017. The MakeMyTrip Board has accepted the resignation and MakeMyTrip (India) and Ibibo Group have entered into a separation agreement with Kashyap. In a filing submitted with the US Securities and Exchange […]
Amazon.com Inc said on Thursday it would build a $5 billion second headquarters in North America, kicking off a competition between cities and states to offer tax cuts and incentives that could bring 50,000 new jobs.
Star India bagged the IPL media rights for TV and digital broadcast for the highest amount of Rs 16,347.50 crore with a single consolidated bid worldwide. The term will hold for the next five years of IPL that is from 2018 to 2022.
Cloud-based business software provider Freshworks (earlier Freshdesk) has acquired Zarget, a website analytics startup backed by marquee investors including Sequoia Capital. This marks the ninth acquisition by Freshworks in the past two years. This acquisition will help Freshworks focus on building marketing solutions for businesses of all sizes, although the terms of the deal were […]
American venture capital firm Sequoia Capital is exploring the options to sell out its portfolio company Pine Labs, one of the country’s largest PoS (point of sale) solutions provider. According to the sources reported to ET, Sequoia Capital, who presently owns two-third of this Noida based startup, is targeting a valuation of about $1 billion […]