Women have broken through yet another traditionally male bastion. Amazon deliveryboys, which are now a ubiquitous sight in India as they zip and weave through traffic on their bikes, shall now just be boys any more. Amazon is piloting a project in Chennai and Kolkata in which women shall go around delivering packages
reducing drunk driving deaths – after a long night out, people these days prefer being driven home via Uber instead of taking to the road themselves, and save themselves some nasty road crashes in the process.
Uber’s now trying to proactively bring down drunk driving level in India too. It’s partnered with the Mumbai police by installing “Uber Breathalysers” at bars and clubs across the city.
Norway has 40.1% women directors followed by Sweden with 29.3% and Finland with 25.9%. In comparison, there are 17.4% women directors in US. India comes at a lowly 26th rank with 6.9% women directors.
To mark International Women’s day, India’s national carrier Air India made history by flying its maiden nonstop flight to San Francisco, the longest flight yet, with an all woman crew. The flight will return on Tuesday, March 8th, the day International Women’s Day is celebrated.
Email man Raymond Tomilson, 74 passed away on March 5 from a suspected heart attack. Tomlinson is credited with writing and sending the first email in 1971 on the ARPANET system, a computer network that was created for the US government that is considered a precursor to the Internet.
Employees demotivated by a recent fall in Linkedin’s valuation at the stock market – 43% in a single day- have a reason to cheer up. The CEO Jeff Weiner has announced a magnanimous award of his entire personal stock worth of $14 million as bonus to the Linkedin employees.
Uber and Ola are in for a rude shock as starting today, the State Transport Department has started a crackdown on the bike services that these companies had launched in the city.
India’s crowded wallet space has a big new entrant. After many months of speculation, Flipkart has finally come up with its own digital wallet. Dubbed Flipkart Money, the wallet is being powered by FX Mart, a Punjab-based company that Flipkart had acquired last year.
It’s the flavour of the season. Companies are rushing a grab a foothold in small town India, and are adapting their English interfaces to suit the average Indian consumer. After Snapdeal and Quikr had gone desi and made their apps available in local languages, e-commerce platform has now added a Hindi interface to its seller app to increase its appeal in Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities.