29th February, 2016. Bangalore, India: Unitus Seed Fund, India’s most active seed fund supporting startups innovating for the masses, announced its investment in DriveU, a firm that aggregates on-demand drivers for private car owners in India. If Uber and Ola have changed the way people travel in urban India, there has been another creeping gap […]
Facebook owned messaging service WhatsApp has announced that its services would be discontinued on BlackBerry and Nokia devices by 2017. WhatsApp’s announcement also includes Nokia’s low-end S40 and S60 Symbian platforms, as well as the older Android 2.2 and Windows Phone 7.1 operating systems, the Verge reported. Based in Mountain View, California, WhatsApp was acquired […]
The Indian Railways is fulfilling its social obligations towards Divyang, senior citizens and women travellers, Union Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu said on Thursday while presenting the rail budget in the Lok Sabha. Prabhu said that for Divyang (differently-abled), the railways have introduced one-time registration for availing concessions while booking tickets online, online booking of wheelchairs […]
Invoking eminent personalities like JK Rowling and Thomas Edison, Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his 17th edition of Mann ki Baat on Sunday gave a message of encouragement to the students who are set to appear for the upcoming board exams, saying that they need to hone ‘discipline’ as it was bound to help them […]
Social networking giant Facebook has introduced a new innovative product called ‘Canvas which allow advertisers to combine video, still images and copy in an ad. “We’re committed to building great mobile experiences for people and doing so also opens up new creative possibilities for advertisers. We’ve invested in engaging experiences like video and the carousel […]
25 February 2016, Bangalore: Unitus Seed Fund, India’s leading seed-stage impact investor, released its annual fund and portfolio impact report. Since 2013, the fund has made a total of 23 investments across sectors including Education, Healthcare, Financial Technology, Agriculture, Retail and Ecommerce, Mobile and Consumer. Their new impact report shows doubling of the total portfolio reach, touching […]
A lot of emotions are shared daily on Facebook. Some are the happy ones, or thought-provoking or sad or depressing. People have always been suggesting Facebook to add a button for “dislike” or do something so that people can also express them grieves. People have been looking for a mid-way between “Like” and “Comment” feature […]
Indian online travel venture Ibibo Group today announced that Naspers will invest USD 250m in the group, which will focus extending ibibo’s leadership position in the Indian hotels category and on additional technology innovations. Ibibo processed more than 6.5m transactions for the period October to December (Q3) 2015. It is the largest online travel company […]
Meet Mr. Sony Joy, the Co-founder at MobME Wireless and CEO at Chillr, which is building a digital banking ecosystem connecting banks, customers, businesses and enterprises in an intuitive and mobile-first way. Chillr is a multi-bank mobile banking application that links directly to your bank account and helps you make easy money transactions. You can […]
Mobile app for transportation, Ola has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Government of Uttar Pradesh in order to generate entrepreneurship opportunities along with skill development for 50,000 men and women across the next five years. Ola will also work with the state government to introduce innovative and customised mobility solutions like Ola […]
To support, Make in India initiative, India’s first smart electric scooter Ather debut the first model Ather S340. IIT-Chennai batchmates Tarun Mehta and Swapnil Jain founded Bangalore-based Ather Energy in 2013. Ather (derived from the Greek word ‘aether’ for the purest form of air breathed by the gods) is a company that manufactures electric scooters […]
Recently launched professional networking platform for accredited medical practitioners, eMediNexus has completed 30,000 registrations in a nominal period of three months. With the promise of providing the latest developments in medicine as well as helping doctors regularly update their knowledge, eMediNexus reaches over 2 lakh doctors on a daily basis through its e-newspaper eMediNews. Working […]