Coronavirus: Flipkart Puts Staff Under Mandatory Work From Home For 3 Days
As concerns around the coronavirus outbreak grow, India’s tech companies are taking stronger measures to prevent it from spreading. Flipkart has made it…
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Softbank’s Stock Falls The Most In 7 Years Over Coronavirus Fears, Earnings Results
When it rains, it pours. Softbank, which has been going through a tough few quarters with its star portfolio companies Uber, WeWork and…
UPI Transactions Fell 40% On Friday As Yes Bank Crisis Impacted PhonePe, Other Apps
It was believed that UPI was a fairly decentralized payments system — with more than 40 apps all running over the UPI interface,…
Paytm Tries To Pitch Its Services To PhonePe During Outage, PhonePe Turns It Down With Epic Tweet
In marketing, as in most other things, timing is everything. As restrictions were placed on Yes Bank today by the Reserve Bank of…
PhonePe, Other Payments Apps Suffer Outages As Banking Partner Yes Bank Faces Crisis
Even as Yes Bank’s customers are chafing at the RBI having restricted withdrawals up to Rs. 50,000, the effect is spreading across the…
Paytm Shuts Offices For Two Days, Zoho Works From Home: How Companies Have Reacted To Coronavirus
The dreaded coronavirus is finally in India, and it’s bringing about the sort of disruption that it has caused around the world. Startups…
Sachin Bansal’s Wife Files Dowry Harassment Case Against Him
A dowry case has been filed against one of India’s most prominent entrepreneurs. Sachin Bansal’s wife Priya Bansal has filed a dowry case…
I Promise You I’ll Start To Be More Careful: Softbank’s Masa Son To Investors
Softbank Chief Executive Masayoshi Son is admitting that some of the decisions taken by his company’s Vision Fund might have been a tad…
Oppo Launches Financial Services Arm Oppo Kash, Will Provide Personal And Business Loans
It’s not just e-commerce companies that are making a beeline into India’s financial services space — phone manufacturers are at it too. Chinese…