Financial services firm JM Financial today said it has acquired close to 10 per cent stake in peer-to-peer (P2P) lending startup Faircent. Though the amount has been undisclosed but it’s estimated to be close to Rs 16.5 crore (between USD 2.5 million to 3 million). In a filing to the BSE, the company said its subsidiary […]
In case you haven’t been paying attention, many tech stocks are under serious pressure. LinkedIn, where I have been an executive for nearly six years, is one of those companies, having lost more than 40% of our value after announcing our 2015 earnings and guidance for 2016 last Thursday. As you can imagine, this has […]
It’s late morning on a Thursday in September, and Slack Technologies CEO Stewart Butterfield has convened a meeting with his design and product heads in the company’s low-key San Francisco headquarters. On the agenda is the question that’s been most on Butterfield’s mind lately: how his $US2.8 billion ($3.9 billion) start-up, which makes business-collaboration software, […]
The world is quite large for those who explore and quite small for those who create! People often find it quite difficult when it comes to searching a service, commodity, a person or anything that they seek. With the intervention of Internet, and technically speaking with the help of Search Engines over the internet it […]
New Delhi: Realty portal Housing.com has appointed Mani Rangarajan as chief financial officer (CFO) to strengthen its senior management team. Mr Rangarajan has held executive level roles in companies such as Citigroup and Yahoo. He has also been involved with several start-ups in India in advisory roles, SoftBank-backed portal Housing.com said.
What we will say, Is this Narendra modi effect or what but China’s one of the largest search engine Baidu and one of the country’s biggest private conglomerates Fosun are scouting to invest in Indian startups, joining compatriots from the Middle Kingdom eager to profit from the opportunities in the world’s fastest-growing major economy. Investment […]
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E-commerce major Snapdeal has appointed former TaxiForSure CTO Amitava Ghosh as Vice President Engineering.