It’s a reason to rejoice for women employees who are planning to have a baby. The union government is set to increase the maternity leave for women employed in private firms from the existing 12 weeks to 26 weeks.
Fortunately the startups wave has struck the animal lovers who’ve turned entrepreneurs to help your pets in every way. From booking their spas to buying the best of pet accessories, these startups are creating a whole new industry which hitherto was confined to the neighbourhood pet shop. Though petcare in India is nascent and not as mature as in western countries, the Indian petcare industry is growing at about 26% a year, fuelled by a significant increase in spending by Indians on pets in the last few years
We reached out to all the pet startups in India and got a lowdown from all of them on what they do, for you to bookmark.
Indian Software giant Infosys technologies is all set to formally inaugurate have its largest campus in Hyderabad, the twin capital to Andhra Pradesh and newly formed state Telangana.
Uber is purportedly trying to bring some cheer to your Mondays by rolling out the “Uber Puppies” programme, an initiative in which users can request a 15 minute play time with puppies.
In a recent company statement, Amazon claims to to be the largest marketplace in India in terms of products on offer. Amazon adds 50,000 products on the website everyday, the statement says. While the corresponding numbers for Flipkart and Snapdeal are unknown, it’s hard to say with authority if Amazon is indeed the biggest marketplace.
While most brands offer attractive discounts, bring out special advertising, and roll out numerous other activities to engage with their potential customers, Uber has taken the Christmas game a notch “higher”.
Uber, in partnership with Droom, an online marketplace for automobiles, has entered into another strategic alliance with Uber for the festive period to bring on-demand chopper rides to Indian consumers.
It’s that time of the year again. You’ve already left or are set to leave on your annual long leave. This also means setting up an automatic Out-Of-Office reply on your work inbox. Here’s a collection of some of funniest, witty or cheeky OOO replies.
While advertising through billboards, hoardings and usually any offline methods is considerably more expensive ( read: up to a million bucks for a months’ spot on a prime location billboard) than online advertising, flush with VC funding, most of the hot startups wouldn’t mind shelling out the dough to stand out from the clutter. And just as well. It makes perfect sense to not only capture the ready online audience, but also onboard and engage a potentially huge and captive offline audience on your platform.
Every year thousands of Indians move to the USA for greener pastures. Amongst the topmost of all the US immigrants from India are engineers and software developers from TCS and Infosys, two of the biggest IT services providers. The numbers are so huge, that almost 50-70% of the work permits by the US embassy are given out to Indians. However, in a major revision this year, the embassy has doubled the fees of the H1B (work permit) and L1 (resident) from $2000 to $4000. Infosys and TCS will hit feel the pinch.