New Delhi/Bengaluru: Ola, India’s largest taxi-hailing service will shut down its grocery (Ola Store) and food delivery services (Ola Cafe). As per report the company slows expansion plans and struggles to build customer demand for the business units and huge delivery costs is the main reason behind this move. “It (grocery) is not a profitable business […]
In a gesture befitting a socially conscious corporate, LeEco, the internet and technology conglomerate has joined hands with Akshaya Patra to support a mid-day meal for two children for every Le Superphone sold (Le 1s and Le Max) on LeEco Day on February 25, 2016. The initiative is part of a program that helps Akshaya […]
Bengaluru-based retail technology startup SnapBizz Sunday said it has raised an undisclosed round of funding from veteran industrialist Ratan Tata. SnapBizz: Amazing Story of $1 Billion Opportunity Spotted By An Employee and Backed By His Company This is Tata’s eighth investment in startups in 2016 so far. Tata, former Tata Group chairman, has […]
So the results of Free Basics Failure has taken the first bite and it’s none other than the first employee of facebook in India and Head of Facebook India, Krithiga Reddy. Krithiga Readdy mentioned this news on her facebook post – When my family relocated to India, we knew that we would move back to […]
All Indians have faced situations where we need urgent services for our homes, be it an electrician, a plumber, someone to look under the hood of the car or just clean our carpets. Usually, the process is tedious where we ask our acquaintances for references or go to the Yellow pages or Google it and […]
Hyderabad based IT services firm Cambridge Technology has invested Rs 8 crore ($1.3 million) in US-based automated photo-sharing platform PhotoKarma. Idealab, Bessemer and New York Angels are also participated in this investment round. Before this investment Cambridge Tech has also invested in MyCrowd, a crowd-testing platform for website and mobile applications. The investments is aim […]
Smytten is enhancing the way affluent Indian consumers discover, interact with, and purchase premium products and services. It was launched in October 2015 by ex-Unilever and Google executives, Siddharth Nangia and Swagata Sarangi. Siddharth and Swagata were studying at ISB Hyderabad when they first met. Post-graduation, Swagata was heading business marketing at Google where he […]
The government is funding a research project on 5G technology being undertaken by Country’s premier academic institutions with an outlay of Rs. 36.51 crores, Indian Parliament was informed today. “The Department of Electronics and IT is funding a collaborative research project on 5G being undertaken by premier academic institutions across the country”, Communications and IT […]
Practo, Asia’s leading healthcare platform today released its annual healthcare findings – The Practo Healthcare Map of India 2015 which aims to highlight the key consumer healthcare concerns. The report also highlights the fastest growing concerns to enable the healthcare industry focus on the illness types that ail the population today as well as pro-actively […]
Ola, India’s most popular mobile app for personal transportation and OnePlus, a fast growing technology startup, today announced a first-of-its-kind partnership in India, giving users an opportunity to buy the latest smartphone OnePlus X, on-demand, straight from the Ola app. For one-day only on December 8, 2015, OnePlus together with OlaCabs and Amazon India is bringing […]
Bro4u.com, Bangalore-based home service market place, have raised undisclosed funds from Sargod Ventures led by Alok Sargod. Bro4u is an 8-month-old hyper-local home services app which promises seven minutes turnaround for users, which is the quickest compared to any competitors available in this expertise. Read Also: How Akshay turned ‘Bhaiya chutta nahi hai’ into bro4u.com Pramod Hegde, CEO […]
Arun Kapur, a technocrat and the founder of the highly successful e-commerce site gadgetsguru.com, talks about his latest e-offering ‘OK Sir’. OK Sir is an app that aggregates and makes available over 300 daily need and emergency service providers like key makers, plumbers, peons, tutors, nurses to helicopter joyrides on a single click. Excerpts from […]