You know the time for green initiatives has truly taken off when the country’s prime minister lends his support to one.
In a major win for the environment, and Ola cabs, electricity powered E-rikshaws will now be available to book on commutech player Ola’s app in the Delhi NCR region.
Paytm’s tie up with Flipkart’s delivery arm is a pointer towards what the company’s priorities are going forward.
Infibeam is all set and running on India’s stock markets. After its much talked about IPO that concluded last week, the company started trading on the National Stock Exchange on Monday, and got off to a steady start.
I’d spent the last few weeks desperately trying to save my startup and failed. My co-founder had told me point blank that he had no faith in my ability to be the CEO of the company. I’d studied at the best engineering college in the country, worked at the best management consulting firm in the world. I took risks and tried to build a real business that built real technologies to help real factory. I even had paying customers. And still, I’d failed.
After the government issued a directive against discounts by ecommerce marketplaces, the Karnataka government has now ruled against surge pricing on cabs that commutech apps like Uber and Ola regularly employ at the pretext of offsetting high demands.
Vineet Singh, who was the former business head of 99Acres.com, had invested an undisclosed sum in Housing.com. 99Acres is one of the chief competitors of Housing in India’s crowded online realty market.
Uber’s cat and mouse game with the Bangalore Traffic authorities just refuses to end. One thought that Uber had one-upped the competition by branding itself as a ridesharing service in order to let its bike taxis run, but it turns out that Bangalore’s traffic cops have other plans – in a fresh round of activity, the Bangalore police has seized at least 15 bikes belonging to Uber.
Under the Smartbox model, your package is delivered to a pickup spot, chosen by you at the time of making the booking. After receiving the intimation of delivery at the location, you can go there at your convenience, swipe your card to pay the amount and pick up your package.
Despite a slow April fool’s, some Indian startups went all out there and pulled off some great April Fool’s day pranks. While Google, as tradition goes, pulled off another April Fool’s joke in the form of the “Google glass cardboard”, it’s the Indian startups, that in their own tone and style, had their unsuspecting customers fooled up. Here’s a list in no particular order.