Before there was an Ola or Uber, there was Auto Raja, Chennai’s first autorikshaw aggregator service. However unable to compete with the bigger, if newer players like Ola and Uber, in a highly competitive and valuation led market, Auto Raja to shut shop soon.
The United States is home to 29 billionaires on the list, more than any other country. While, only four billionaires from China and three from India made the top 50.
After changing how brands are created and enhanced on social media, looks like the medium has found its most prolific use case yet with the Mumbai police adopting it and how.
However, clearing the air and dismissing the possibility of an acquisition by either of the global companies, InMobi founder and CEO, Naveen Tewari, an ex McKinsey Consultant and Wharton alumni, has finally spoken up. In an interview with ET, Tewari states that there is no acquisition is on the cards and that the company will look to release an IPO as the only way.
While most people enjoyed a lazy Sunday morning with their friends and family on 24th January, a large number of youngsters spent hours wilting under the hot sun, with stars in their eyes, and their future in the resumes they held.
8000 job aspirants lined up in a one km long queue, leading up to the electronic city campus of HCL, one of the biggest IT employers in India, for a walk-in interview scheduled by the company.
Cab-hailing app Ola has now rolled out Ola share in Chennai and Kolkata. Ola has recently launched the Share feature wherein up to three users can share an Ola cab ride. The user can either choose to ride someone from a pre-created social group or with anyone, on the same route, using the Share option.
We trawled the social media activity of some of the most active brands on social media, and picked up the choicest of examples of times when customers had no chill, and used a brand’s well-meaning campaigns as a customer complaint redressal forum.
Things are getting pretty serious at the troubled internet company, Yahoo Inc. If CEO Marissa Mayer’s comment “You’re not getting fired this week — feel better now?” is not an ominous sign of the impending gloom at the once an internet and media giant, very little else is.
The consumer of the digital age is empowered with a voice that finds its way on various channels of social media. One bad experience, and the beleaguered customers get on a personal vendetta to vent out at the brand. While the customer plight is understandable, and brands should make all efforts to provide a seamless, smooth customer experience, the truth is stuff does go wrong, people make mistakes and every once in a while the customer may not have the perfect experience he signed up for. However, as much as the business owes the customer, the customer too has certain responsibilities. Here are a few ways we can do better at our roles at consumers, and instead of trying to resort to aggression or rudeness, help both the company and themselves enjoy a mutually respectful, healthy and complaints- free relationship.