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Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick to offer start-up tips at IIT-B on January 19

Uber co-founder and CEO Travis Kalanick will be in Mumbai next week to address students of IIT-Bombay and share his own success story. Kalanick, on his maiden trip to India, is among other top executives who will be in town to take part in the government’s Start-up India event scheduled for January 16. He will […]

Hike raises undisclosed funding from founders Of Quora, WordPress & other Silicon Valley veterans

NEW DELHI: Indian messenger app, Hike, has raised undisclosed funding from a number of tech veterans, including Quora founder, Dropbox’s Vice President Engineering Aditya Agarwal, WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg and Ruchi Sanghvi, VP Dropbox. “It’s great to have the world’s top brains in tech share Hike’s vision; and not just entrust us with their investment, but more […]

Facebook has blocked some of our ads: Hike Messenger

New Delhi, Jan 10: Home-grown Hike Messenger has accused Facebook of blocking an option in its advertisements which lets people visit the chatting application’s website. Run by Kavin Mittal, son of Bharti Enterprises Chairman Sunil Mittal, Hike competes with Facebook-owned WhatsApp. Hike is owned by a joint venture of Bharti and Japan’s Softbank.”Advertisers have, among […]

Barkha Dutt and Shekhar Gupta Launched Their First Online Venture “The Print”

Shekhar Gupta and Barkha Dutt, two very renown Indian Journalist launched their first online venture The Print, a news media start up. The platform was formaly announced in a first event of The Print called “Off the cuff”. However the website has not launched yet. We are waiting to see how the things will goes […]

Having a Problem With OLA, Call Nikesh Arora

With greater possessions and a good rank comes greater responsibilities. It need not to be reminded how some of the extraordinary Indians have made many globally scaled headlines. Be it our Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi or Sundar Pichai who proved his worth by becoming the CEO of Google or his ex-colleague Nikesh Arora, President […]

Travis Kalanick (Uber, Founder) Will Attend Modi’s Startup India Event

New Delhi: Investment firm SoftBank’s founder Masayoshi Son, taxi-hailing service Uber’s founder Travis Kalanick and collaborative workspace provider WeWork’s founder Adam Neumann will attend the government’s Start-up India event next week, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi will unveil an action plan to assist early-stage companies. The event will be attended by around 40 innovators, venture […]

Snapdeal to invest in logistics to speed up delivery

Reuters: Online marketplace Snapdeal, backed by Japan’s SoftBank Group Corp and others, will spend more on logistics and technology to better compete with Flipkart and Amazon’s Indian unit, its co-founder said on Monday. Shopping online is becoming more popular in India due to the rising use of cheaper smartphones and e-commerce firms are struggling to […]

Indian Startups get $8.4 bn funding in 2015; Nearly 1k deals inked

Making it a year of startups, Indian and foreign investors have pumped in a whopping USD 8.4 billion in new Indian startup ventures, including e-commerce platforms in 2015 through close to 1,000 deals, even as questions have begun to be asked about their hefty valuations. Those opening the purse for Indian start-up s included industry […]

Ola ropes in ex Infosys CFO Rajiv Bansal to head finance

  Taxi aggregator Ola today said it has appointed former Infosys Chief Financial Officer Rajiv Bansal to head finance operations as part of its expansion drive in the country. Bansal, who announced his resignation from the country’s second largest software services firm in October this year, will join the Softbank-backed Ola in January 2016. “Rajiv […]

OYO ROOMS HAD A TURNOVER OF INR 2.4 CRORES IN FY 2014-15

Founded in 2012 Turnover in FY14-15 INR 2.4 CR Growth in FY14-15 400% If you have been around in your city anytime recently, more likely than not, you would have spotted an OYO Rooms board. OYO is a branded network of hotels and is one of the fastest growing startups in India.   Founded by Ritesh […]

Housing.com to restructure business, will focus on buying and selling of apartments

One of the biggest Online Realty portal in India, Housing.com will restructure its business to focus only on buying and selling of apartments, and also reduce its employee strength.   SoftBank backed-Housing.com, which was founded in 2012, provides independently verified listings of homes. It has presence in 50 cities with about 2,500 staff members. “The […]