The sun is blazing outside and the heat is unbearable. What happens when your AC decides to ditch you and breakdown in this scorching heat? What do you do in this situation? Scrambling for local directories to find AC repair services near your home is an obvious choice. But then, how reliable are the services […]
Nandan Nilekani, Infosys co-founder and former chairman of UIDAI invested an undisclosed investment in RailYatri.in. Founded by Kapil Raizada, Sachin Saxena, and Manish Rathi, Railyatri is a web and mobile app-based startup that provides real-time and analytics-based travel-related information to passengers. The startup claims to serve 2 million users a month. Helion Ventures, Omidyar Networks and Blume […]
Online doctor consultation app DocsApp has raised a seed investment of $1.2 million from Japanese venture capital firm by Rebright Partners and angel Investors Anand Rajaraman and Venky Harinarayan, who were also the early investors in Facebook. Satish Kannan, CoFounder & CEO, DocsApp, said, “With mobile phones becoming the key medium of communication across […]
A flurry of complaints from Uber drivers about an unusually high number of canceled bookings was the spark that ignited a bitter legal fight with Ola, Uber’s rival for dominance of India’s $12 billion taxi market, according to court documents and a source with direct knowledge of Uber’s case. A seven-member internal team was set […]
The proposed 6 percent levy on online advertisement revenue of foreign companies will “severely raise the cost of doing business” for Indian tech startups, industry body IAMAI said today. “Tech startups are already paying 14.5 per cent service tax to use these ad platforms, which amounts to an estimated Rs 906 crore of taxes to […]
With a number of career options/companies available, the job search is the most daunting task now a day. Looking for a job change is really challenging as it requires a lot of research & time investment. Thanks to the explosion in mobile apps and smartphones, job seekers can now take their job search on the […]
Nowadays, you don’t need to know how to code to build something cool online. We put together a collection of 7 handy tools you can use to build an app (or maybe just a prototype) without a line of code. These days, it’s hard to launch a startup without knowing how to code—or hiring someone who […]
IT industry body Nasscom has partnered the Netherlands government to promote “serious gaming” in India. As part of the partnership, the two partners organised roadshows across Delhi, Mumbai, Pune and Bengaluru this month, focusing on showcasing the potential of gaming for various sectors. Demos of solutions that have been developed and deployed by reputed Dutch […]
1mg, India’s leading consumer health platform, announced a 100 Cr Series B investment led by Maverick Capital Ventures, the venture capital fund affiliate of Maverick Capital. Looking the deal size and work-force 1mg seems a clear leader in the digital health market in India. Founded by Prashant Tondon, Gaurav Agarwal, Vikas Chauhan and Started as HealthKartPlus, […]
SalezShark, a relationship cloud based startup in USA will handle customer relationship management of Nasscom. Salezshark has chosen over the likes of Microsoft and American cloud computing company Salesforce.com to handle sales operations of Nasscom. SalezShark will now manage the entire gamut of operations from marketing, events and publications to internal member and non-member data, […]
Bitcoin wallet firm Zebpay today said it has crossed Rs 100 crore turnover within 10 months of operations as more Indians are going for the digital currency. “In only 10 months, the company has crossed Rs 100 crore turnover in April 2016,” Zebpay said in a statement. Zebpay, a Bitcoin app, deals with Indian customers […]
Country’s largest private sector lender ICICI Bank announced today about its interest in investing in startups in the financial technology space, even though it has not earmarked a dedicated corpus for the investments.