Bart Eshwar, Author at OfficeChai

Snapdeal Chief Product Officer Trolls Flipkart On Twitter

October 11, 2015October 20, 2015 Bart Eshwar

India’s great ecommerce wars are well and truly on, and the three main players – Flipkart, Amazon and Snapdeal – are battling it out for a share of the Indian comsumer’s attention this festival season. Flipkart’s much vaunted Big Billion Day sale around the corner, and all eyes are on the event after the fiasco last year when the sale had left thousands of customers angry and the company had to issue an apology for the site crashing during the event.

Food Tech Startup Dazo Shuts Down

October 7, 2015 Bart Eshwar

A little a year after it came into existence, food tech startup Dazo has decided to shut shop. The company, which was initially called Tapcibo, used to aggregate meals from partner restaurants and took care of last-mile delivery to ensure superior customer experience.

This Is What Berkshire Hathway’s Website Looks Like

October 6, 2015October 6, 2015 Bart Eshwar

Berkshire Hathway is a gigantic global conglomerate. Headed by billionaire investor Warren Buffet, it has interests in multinational corporations like IBM, American Express and Coca Cola. An investment decision by the company can shake up stock markets, and its total assets in 2014 were 526 billion.

However its website looks like this.

Flipkart Chooses Telangana Over Karnataka For Its Largest Warehouse Yet

October 5, 2015October 20, 2015 Bart Eshwar

After foreign companies, including Google, Amazon, Uber have already made a beeline for the state, they Indian counterparts are following suit. Flipkart, India’s premier etailer, had decided to set up its largest warehouse in Telangana. This will be the company’s 16th warehouse in the country.

Flipkart’s Latest App Push: Its Big Billion Day Sale Is App-Only

October 3, 2015October 20, 2015 Bart Eshwar

If you’d planned to plant yourself in front of a computer and avail of the awesome discounts on offer during Flipkart’s Big Billion Day sale, prepare to be disappointed. Flipkart’s biggest annual sale will only be available to the users of its app.

Vikas Malpani Rubbishes Reports Of Quikr Buying Out Majority Stake In CommonFloor

October 2, 2015October 20, 2015 Bart Eshwar

The tech world was abuzz this morning with reports that Quikr was eyeing a majority stake in real estate portal CommonFloor. An Economic Times article had stated that the deal would be worth Rs. 330 crore, and had been in the works for the last 5 months. The news was gaining steam and being picked up by other publications, until co-founder Vikas Malpani intervened.

[24] 7 Sets Up State Of The Art Office In Bangalore

October 2, 2015December 20, 2015 Bart Eshwar

Bangalore has yet another swanky office to add to its growing list. [24] 7, one of the world’s largest providers of chat agents, has set up a spanking new office in the city.

The office is spread over 4.5 lakh square feet and can house 7,000 employees.

India Surpasses China, US; Receives Highest Foreign Investment in 2015

September 30, 2015September 30, 2015 Bart Eshwar

Modi’s promised Acche Din might have taken some time coming, but they finally seem to be here. On the heels of his historic Digital India summit in Silicon Valley in which the Prime Minister launched a charm offensive on global CEOs, it has emerged that India led the world in Foreign Investment in 2015.

A Sneak Peek Into Instamojo’s Swanky Bangalore Office

September 25, 2015October 29, 2015 Bart Eshwar

Instamojo has recently turned 3, and the company has moved into a swanky new Bangalore office. Founded in 2012 by Aditya Sengupta, Akash Gehani, Harshad Sharma and Sampad Swain, Instamojo provides customers a platform to sell digital goods like ebooks, reports, comic books, music, software, templates, photos and tutorials by listing the item on the website and sharing the web link with others.