The ads are inescapable. They stare at you from hoardings at busy intersections, bellow at you on live TV and cover the entire front page of major newspapers. Approximately Rs. 3500 Cr worth of traditional media advertising is bought annually by internet companies, typically peddling their smartphone apps.
A scientist, inventor and entrepreneur from India. But there is more to know about the inventor of EMAIL. Dr VA Shiva Ayyadurai, now living and working in the US, left India as a seven-year-old with his parents and in 1979, as a high school student, he developed an electronic version of an interoffice mail system, […]
Powered by One97 Communications Ltd., the online mobile wallet and E-commerce website Paytm has recently invested in AbhiBus, a bus ticketing service and ClearTax, an income tax filing website. According to the sources, the invested amount is not yet disclosed and no official announcement has been made. AbhiBus is an online platform, founded back in 2007 […]
The Indo-US Startup Connect was a unique exhibition of Start-Ups that showcased products from 40 different companies. Forty startups from India are participating in the programme at San Jose, which was planned following PM Modi’s “Startup India, Stand up India” call from the ramparts of the Red Fort on Independence Day.
It was 6:37 pm, I already was 7 minutes late for the interview of Mr. Nishchal Dua which was scheduled at 6:30 pm. With the apology in my heart, I finally called him thinking he must have been disappointed for the unreasonable delay. The bell rang for approximately 15 seconds and then I heard from […]
Self-proclaimed ethical hacker, Ankit Fadia, has been allegedly appointed as one of the brand ambassadors for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Digital India initiative. On his Facebook page Fadia posted a photo of a certificate issued by the department of electronics and information technology, which states that he is a brand ambassador for the Digital India […]
Saras Agarwal’s main agenda at a networking event early this year was to meet Zishaan Hayath, cofounder and chief executive of education technology startup Toppr. The associate vice-president at VenturEast, among India’s oldest venture capital firms, wasn’t looking to invest in Toppr but discuss startups Hayath had put his money into. “It was a general […]
One of Reliance Industries’ offices in suburban Mumbai became unusually busy last week. The Reason: a second batch of 10 startups joined the country’s largest private firm’s four-month acceleration programme, run in partnership with Microsoft Ventures, to help them scale up operations through mentoring and infrastructure support in exchange of technology and ideas. A month […]
Ratan Tata has joined the advisory board of venture capital firm IDG Ventures India as a senior advisor, third such move by Tata Sons’ chairman emeritus this year. IDG Ventures, which holds stakes in e-tailer Flipkart and online travel portal Yatra, has offices in Delhi and Bengaluru. Tata will be advising IDG Ventures India and […]
A long Tuesday afternoon and I was getting impatient for my next interview with Tooler. I researched their website a for a bit, after much persuasion from the Pixr8 head Nitish. Not that I do not normally research a company before interviewing but the briefing from Nitish made think to myself “here we go again, […]
A new research report released today identifies 35 Indian companies among the global cashback industry leaders. The report analyzes the growth of the industry, its important role in worldwide e-commerce, and the trends and challenges faced by this quickly growing industry. “We identified 35 Indian companies in this worldwide ranking of cashback industry leaders,” said […]
Ezetap, which had previously raised $ 8 million from Helion Venture Partners, The social +Cpaital Partnership and Berggruen Holdings and has led itself to procure INR 150 Cr in its latest round of funding from its existing investors along with new investors, Horizon Ventures and Capricorn Investment Group.