If everyone’s caught up in the startup craze, could Indian cricketers have been far behind? After Yuvraj Singh and Sachin Tendulkar had backed startups, wicketkeeper batsman Robin Uthappa has put his weight behind HealthEminds, a healthcare technology startup.
Uber’s announced that it will launch its bike taxi service, UberMOTO, in Gurgaon today. UberMOTO will work on Uber’s app, but will use bikes to ferry commuters around instead of cars.
The Infosys employee who’d been missing since the blasts in Brussels last Tuesday has confirmed to have died. This news was confirmed by the Indian ambassador to Belgium today. His body has been found in a metro train where one of the bombs went off.
Consumer products are the flavour of the season for Indian godmen. After Baba Ramdev launched his Patanjali brand of products, Dera Sacha Sauda Chief Gurmeet Ram Rahin Singh Insaan has decided to launch his own brand of consumer products in the country.
Flipkart CEO Sachin Bansal delivered an uncharacteristically brutal attack on Snapdeal and Paytm, but it ended up backfiring.
Infibeam’s much-awaited IPO was fully subscribed on the third day as the company successfully managed to raise the 450 crore that it had set out to do. Though interest in the IPO was muted, Infibeam created history by becoming the first Indian e-commerce company to go public.
Ola’s being chewn apart by its competition – but not on the roads. 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.
Mukesh Bansal and Ankit Nagori have teamed up and put in $5 million of their own money and will launch a startup in the area of healthcare, sports and fitness.
There’s no love lost between Ola and Uber. Both companies are fiercely competing for a share of India’s lucrative cab hailing market, and have been engaging in price wars, advertising and the occasional jibe to get a leg up over the other. But if Uber is to be believed, things have just got a lot more serious.