The firing season for Indian startups is not quite over. After the flurry of layoffs last month when Zomato, TinyOwl and Helpchat had fired employees, there had been a lull in the bad news coming in from India’s startup space. Not any more.
It has been reported that realty startup Grabhouse has fired an undisclosed number of workers. These layoffs are chiefly in the operations and data collection teams.
Snapdeal, Amazon and Flipkart have been locked in fierce battle for India’s e-commerce pie. The sites currently all offer similar product selections, similar clean interfaces, and similar discounts. But Snapdeal has now brought about an innovation that can help it stand out in India’s cluttered e-commerce space. In a bid to appeal to the non-metro areas of India, Snapdeal’s site will soon be available 11 new Indian languages.
The Aditya Birla Group may be decades old, but it is still keeping up with the times. Under its Bizlabs incubation programme, the group will partner with 25 startups to bolster its new areas of business in retail, financial services and telecom.
Uber isn’t going to be restricted to registered taxis in Delhi any more. Starting 16th December, private car owners will be able to offer rides to other passengers. This move has come in the wake of the Delhi government looking at ways to enable more people to commute with fewer cars after the implementation of the odd-even formula.
If you’re an Accenture India employee and are running short of leaves, you only have to look as far as an generous colleague for help. In an interesting workplace policy that has been rarely seen before in India, Accenture is allowing its employees to donate their excess leave to their colleagues who may need it in times of crisis.
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.
Uber drivers are a resilient lot. They’re used to dealing with erratic customers, hard-to-find addresses, and the traffic snarls on Indian roads. But Shahnawaz, an Uber driver from Delhi, was quite taken aback when his cab was ordered by a heavily pregnant woman who wanted to go to the hospital.
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.
Zomato users shall now be able to have their customer service questions answered in real time. The company has introduced an in-app chat feature that will help users resolve their queries and complaints about Zomato’s service.