Things are changing in India. from a country that’s idolised Bollywood and cricket celebrities for the longest time, it’s now seeking and seeing role models and celebrities in startup founders and CEOs.
After a lot of murmurs around the deal, budget hotel aggregator Oyo Rooms finally looks set to acquire rival Zo rooms. This deal with firmly cement Oyo Rooms as the dominant player in the budget rooms segment eliminating its only competition hitherto.
Sundar Pichai, newly appointed CEO of Google is on a maiden visit to his native country after being appointed chief in August this year.
Speaking at a high-profile Google India event, Pichai was all hope giving and positive news sharing from Google’s stable. Pichai announced some major plans the tech giant has for India.
Companies are known to be capitalistic, cold and impersonal entities who’re out there to take your money.
However, every now and then they do little gestures, that makes them come across as personal, caring and send warm and fuzzies your way. In their own ways, they go out of their way to reach out and touch.
Call it a clever marketing hack or a genuine gesture, here’s a few instances when some companies – known or small – made people’s days with their thoughtful acts.
Zipgo, the online-demand shuttle service has now launched a women only bus service in the Delhi region to tackle 2 of Delhi’s biggest problems- Women’s safety and the traffic situation.
In the days of a spurt of online startups with few distinguishable features, and insta-ROI driven marketing strategy, the tried and tested methods…
When a Quora user decided to take to the famous question-answer platform to get help to know which among startups Practo, Quikr, Snapdeal or Directi he should join, he hardly expected the CEOs to reply.
Amazon’s Indian customers received an unusual mail in their inboxes today. Instead of mails about Amazons’s latest products and discounts, this mail came directly from Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.
Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX, co–founder of Zip2, PayPal, and Tesla Motors and futuristic technology evangelist has launched OpenAI – an Open Source Artificial Intelligence (AI) research non-profit company.