Rubbishing the report carried by DNA and putting any rumours of an Ola-Uber merger to rest, Bhavish Aggarwal, co-founder and CEO, Ola has taken to Twitter and has penned an impassioned blogpost.
With a new CEO, and 5 of its top execs gone, amidst a snipped valuation and a funding slowdown, and still a sign of profits to come, Flipkart, at least on the face of it, looks to be on the shaky ground.
Chanda Kochhar, MD and CEO, ICICI bank is a woman of substance, with as good a sense of business as of her responsibility as a woman, and a mother. In May 2014, she wrote a touching letter to her daughter purported to inspire her with stories of Kochhar’s own struggle, hard work and values.
She heads one of the world’s biggest consumer product companies and one of the only 20 women heading an S&P top 200 company, but her insights on the issues women still face at work come across as telling of the situation prevalent even today.
Speaking at the Women in the World Summit, Indira Nooyi, the 44 year old Indian-born CEO of Pepsico, has shared a lot of heartfelt thoughts about women at the workplace.
Amazon is a big company. So big that within Amazon, there are 2 other business units, who now have their own CEOs.
Amazon has promoted the leaders of its online retail site and cloud computing unit to the CEOs of their respective groups, making each of them more of a distinct business.
At an event organised by Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad, Narayana Murthy, the co-founder and emeritus Infosys, who was conferred an honorary doctorate at the premium management school, has made a rather controversial statement.
The Infosys founder was reported as saying that Indian IT companies act as “Immigration agents”, referring to the huge onslaught of employees that are sent abroad every year to work onsite in US companies.
HP, or Helwett Packard, has just launched the “thinnest laptop” yet in the Spectre 13″, and it’s done it in style. Apart from a jazzy video and other new age marketing paraphernalia, HP has used this opportunity to unveil a new logo. The logo was originally designed by Moving Brands, an agency, as a part of a branding overhaul 5 years ago. Back then, the logo was rejected
After Uber had approached the Delhi High Court accusing the company of making fake bookings on its app to sabotage its business, Jugnoo has followed suit with similar claims of its own.
Jugnoo is a Chandigarh-based auto aggregator that competes directly with Ola, which also has its own auto booking service. It alleges that Ola employees have been creating fake accounts over the last 10 days to book and make cancellations on Jugnoo’s app leading to loss of revenue for the company and also affecting the income of auto-rickshaw drivers.
Meet Chinnappa, a 55 year old, ex army veteran who’s employed as an Uber cab driver under the Uber Fauji programme. Started late last year, Uber Fauji is an initiative by Uber that aims to give employment to ex servicemen.