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 […]
Zomato, the restaurant discovery and food ordering app, today announced a partnership with Dunkin’ Donuts India, the country’s first all-day part adult QSR. The partnership will allow consumers to order the newly launched ‘Too Much Burgers’ online on Zomato, the only platform offering this option. Dunkin’s complete range of burgers, sandwiches, wraps and donuts will be […]
In a bid to control the alarming levels of Delhi’s air pollution, CM Arvind Kejriwal has planned to allow private vehicles with even and odd registration numbers on alternate days from January 1 next year. This step, however odd it may sound, can get really beneficial for bus aggregation startups like Shuttl and ZipGo, who […]
Mobile wallet and e-commerce venture Paytm has acquired Near.in, a marketplace app that connects users with local businesses for home services. The Economic Times, which first reported the development, said the deal is valued between $1.5 million and $2 million. A formal press release on the announcement is expected shortly. he Paytm-Near.in deal is the […]
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 […]
Khan Academy, a US-based non-profit organization and an e-learning website, launched a Hindi version Thursday at the India Habitat Centre. They also published a small press release on it’s Khan Academy Blog – Today we’re happy to announce that learners around the world can now access Khan Academy resources in Hindi! If you speak Hindi, […]
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 […]
There are 100 lakh weddings that happen in India annually and wedding industry stands tall at 38 billion growing @ 25%. It’s a space that’s still unorganized with no one big player having a connect with the millions of young to-be-weds and vendors. There is no “one place” that has it all – the features, […]
Bangalore-based on-demand laundry service platform, Flashdoor, has raised an undisclosed amount in angel funding, led by former Flipkart executive Sujeet Kumar. Flipkart’s Chief Business Officer Ankit Nagori and Tracxn Labs also participated in the round. Kumar was head of Flipkart’s largest seller and its captive logistics business WS Retail Pvt Ltd, before quitting in May. […]
E-commerce giant Amazon.com is taking lessons learnt from its daily battles with India’s choked roads and cramped cities to some of its largest developed markets, exporting a model of cheaper deliveries and reduced warehousing costs. Online shopping is booming in India, where millions of consumers are newly able to access the Internet thanks to cheap […]
In the wake of an unprecedented surge in e-commerce, shopping malls already under huge pressure due to large vacant spaces are expected to see a sharp decline in the footfalls could be to the extent of 55.58 per cent during the ongoing festive season this year, reveals an ASSOCHAM recent survey. According to the just […]
Indian Angel Network (IAN), India’s first and world’s largest angel investor network, has invested in Bangalore-based Jiyo Natural which offers personalized nutritionally balanced, calorie-monitored and chemical-free food through web and app. Rajiv Mehta and Sumit Dhingra have led this round of investment and will join the board of the company to further mentor and nurture […]