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30Mar By RishabhNo Comments

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Wittyfeed- A Story of World’s 2nd Largest & India’s Largest Viral Content Company

WittyFeed.com, a name heard by many but whose story is yet not been told completely! WittyFeed holds a history, which is not only interesting but also inspiring. It is a company that has seen times that has caused many startups to die, it has fought and is now truly an example of hard work and dedication with its success. Mr. Vinay Singhal, founder of WittyFeed.com shares his success with Pixr8 in a recent interview. Taking time out in this festive weekend from his busy schedule, Mr. Singhal did gave plenty of time and attention to celebrating the grand success of Wittyeed.com. He was quick and precise and kept the conversation to the point. “Currently WittyFeed.com gets 120 Million unique visitors on a month-on-month basis, converting to about 400 Million page views. It makes us wo...

Foodpanda buys Delivery.com’s HK business, consolidating territories

18Mar By reutersNo Comments

ACQUISITION

Foodpanda buys Delivery.com’s HK business, consolidating territories

Online takeaway delivery firm Foodpanda is acquiring the Hong Kong assets of U.S.-based Delivery.com as it consolidates its position in key markets while shedding assets elsewhere. Founded in 2012, Berlin-based Foodpanda expanded rapidly worldwide through nine acquisitions fuelled by $310 million in capital it raised in six tranches, as online takeaway food startups enjoyed a frenzy of funding. Foodpanda, which is 49 percent owned by German emerging market e-commerce investor Rocket Internet, was active in up to 40 markets a year ago but has pared this back to focus on 24 markets in Asia, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East. It split off its 10-country Africa business and last month sold its Latin American operations to UK rival Just-Eat. The merger of Foodpanda with Delivery.com,...

Republiqin – An App That Will Locate Pocket Friendly Pub & Bar Near you

14Mar By No Comments

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Republiqin – An App That Will Locate Pocket Friendly Pub & Bar Near you

After finishing masters at Northeastern University, in 2011, Raj ventured into developing an independent video-streaming platform, Athlatinum, for Sports Learning. After 1 and 1/2 year of developing the platform and securing 5+ clients, Raj ran out of funds to support the development. Lesson learned – never go alone, especially, when it comes to developing a startup. Around the same time, an opportunity came along to develop IT solution for E-Services domain. As the saying goes, first focus on activities that bring revenue, Raj put Athlatinum on hold and began developing Cromshield as E-Services Platform AS A Service. CROMSHIELD front-end further transformed to an IT Product based E-commerce platform. Its back-end is used by 7+ vendors, and, in its 2nd year of operation, CROMSHIELD achi...

Stunning Office Pictures of BHIVE Workspace in Bengaluru

10Mar By NitishNo Comments

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Stunning Office Pictures of BHIVE Workspace in Bengaluru

Working from a garage is almost as expensive as working from a co-working space, when you take the operational expenses into account. For start-ups in Bangalore BHIVE Workspace in Bengaluru.is fitting choice. It’s moderately priced, provides excellent facilities and amenities, and the start-up community it houses is outstanding, if networking and synergizing is your thing. BHIVE has 4 workspaces spread around some of Bangalore’s trendiest neighbourhoods. Koramangala, Indiranagar and two in HSR Layout; all within a space of 10 kilometres. You can find them all on Google Maps and they pretty easy to reach. I chose to try out their HRS – S4 workspace because it’s the largest co-working space in Bangalore. I walked into BHIVE’s HSR S4 Workstation. I had a free one-day trial offer, and I fi...

10Mar By AdityaNo Comments

INDIA

Indian Employers Can File One Paper For EPF, ESI returns

Taking another step towards ease of doing business, the Centre will on Thursday launch a common registration facility on e-biz portal enabling employers to avoid filing separate Employees' Provident Fund (EPF) and Employees' State Insurance (ESI) returns. The Labour Ministry has decided to integrate the registration process under five Labour Acts with the e-biz portal of the Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion (DIPP). The five acts covered in this process include Employees' Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952, Employees' State Insurance Act, 1948, Contract Labour (Regulation & Abolition) Act, 1970 and Building and Other Construction workers (Regulation of Employment & Conditions of Service) Act, 1996. A unified 'ShramSuvidha Portal', launched on October ...

Indian Startup Vs. US Monopoly, An Execution Without Trial !!!

8Mar By RishabhNo Comments

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Indian Startup Vs. US Monopoly, An Execution Without Trial !!!

Facebook recently showed its anti-social behavior when it pulled down the page of Houzify, a Bangalore-based home improvement startup whose investors include T V Mohandas Pai and InMobi's Naveen Tewari - on the basis of a complaint from US-based Houzz. In a legal glitch Houzz had sent a legal notice to Houzify over trademark infringement issue. Houzify says that the Facebook Page was shut down without any notice from Facebook. Neither did they give any forewarning or called for consulting over the matter. This direct action taken by facebook came as a shock! Gunaseelan Radhakrishnan, Co-founder & CEO of Houzify, described the action as "execution without trial", while Pai said it "demonstrates the danger India and startups here face because of the monopoly of Facebook and its...

Bucker: An App That Have All Major Service Players in India

7Mar By NitishNo Comments

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Bucker: An App That Have All Major Service Players in India

"A friend shared her experience that happened to her on a late Saturday night, she was walking down the streets of Hyderabad because she couldn't find a cab back home. She was complaining she has fished through all the apps for a long time, but was disappointed. It was high time to introduce a service which shows you the best available options quick and cheap" says Vennela, co-founder of Bucker. Bucker is a Hyderabad based startup which aims to simplify user's choices by giving them the best available service at the cheapest price. It provides service aggregation in the fields of cabs, shopping and coupons. Major services players like Ola, Uber, Taxiforsure, Swiggy, Foodpanda, Paytm, Freecharge and Mobikwik are already available, the team is extending their service to provide coupons and ...

Decoding: Word of Mouth Publicity of Indian Candy “Pulse”

5Mar By NitishNo Comments

BLOGS

Decoding: Word of Mouth Publicity of Indian Candy “Pulse”

Pulse, Pulse, Pulse - This candy has become the savior to the Indian small businesses and " oh, wow What is this " ? to the people who have ever popped this light green candy in their mouth. But Why have people gone bat-shit crazy about it? The best way to describe it, is by breaking the Pulse Journey into the mouth in 4 stages. ( as already explained in some of the below answers ) : Stage I - Sensational Kacchaa Aam Flavor Stage II - Slow emergence of the powder (which happens to be in between the candy) into your mouth Stage III - Phenomenal burst of Amchur into your mouth. Stage IV - Sweet taste when you reach the end of the candy. Now, Let's go in deep (in ascending order ) of what Pulse have included in this candy which has rocked few mout...

5Mar By AdityaNo Comments

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Adcom To Sue Ringing Bells

Domestic feature phone brand Advantage Computers' (Adcom) has said it may consider a legal action against Ringing Bells, the Noida-based start-up, which claimed to manufacture the world's cheapest smartphone. Adcom founder and chairman Sanjeev Bhatia said the manufacturer of Rs. 251 (less than USD 4) smartphone, distributed the Adcom handsets to the media during the launch last month. "We are deeply grieved by this incident where our mobile phone has been presented to masses for Rs.251, and therefore, would not hesitate from taking any legal actions against the company, in case the entire fiasco impacts Adcom's brand name or subsequently we face any other kind of losses," Bhatia said in a statement. "Yes, it is true that although we sold the handsets to Ringing Bells earlier, like we ...

4Mar By RishabhNo Comments

FUNDING

Social Discovery App Raises $5 Million Angel Funding From HNI

Shouut, a social discovery and sharing app, offered by Giant Tech Labs Pvt. Ltd. has raised $5 Million in angel funding from an undisclosed High Net-Worth Individual angel investor, based in India. Founded by Praveer Kochhar, Shouut is an app that enables its users to discover and share amazing places or experiences in their instant vicinity, the platform also enables amplification of business deals to users around their business location. The Shouut app after undergoing around 10 months of development phase, was finally launched in February 2016 at Google’s Play Store. (more…)

#Budget2016 Key Highlights For Startup Ecosystem

2Mar By No Comments

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#Budget2016 Key Highlights For Startup Ecosystem

The third budget of Mr. Jaitely under the BJP led government has great offerings for the Startup world. Start-up India, Stand-Up India’ plan is most visible campaign of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Government which will boost jobs and investments in India. The campaign promotes & encourage entrepreneurs to start new firms that are not inspired by traditional businesses, is capable of generating jobs, and build an economy driven by technology and science. We spoke to Jaspal Singh co-founder of TaxZippy.com, India's largest Income tax filing site and he felt that this budget had a focus on startups as they are growing industry and help boom the economy. He also added that the budget has reinstated a positive push to the startup ecosystem. Here are the pointers placed by him. &nbs...

IT, Start-ups Get Less Attention in Budget 2016: Nasscom

1Mar By PriyankaNo Comments

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IT, Start-ups Get Less Attention in Budget 2016: Nasscom

The union budget for 2016-17 was a mixed bag for the Indian IT industry and start-ups, which witnessed very few proposals with caveats, the industry’s apex body Nasscom said. “The budget is a mixed for the technology and services sector, as clarification and simplification boost business and more technology adoption in governance is a step in right direction,” Nasscom said in a statement. “In the backdrop of global economic volatility, there are unmet expectations on policy announcements that enable ease of doing business for our sector. The budget partially covers our wish list on policy bottlenecks, including ease of business, nurturing start-ups, products and e-commerce sector,” Nasscom chairman B.V.R. Mohan Reddy said. On Finance Minister Arun Jaitley’s stress on leveraging techn...