Govind Rajan Is New FreeCharge CEO
FreeCharge COO Govind Rajan has been named the CEO of the company. Kunal Shah, who had founded FreeCharge in 2010 and had been the CEO since then, will now serve as the Chairman.
Category: Startups
Snapdeal Chief Product Officer Anand Chandrasekaran Quits
Snapdeal Chief Product Officer Anand Chandasekharan has quit the company. This was announced by Snapdeal co-founder Rohit Bansal on Twitter.
Exclusive: Flipkart Delays Joining Date Of Campus Hires By 6 Months
In a surprise move, Flipkart has delayed the joining dates of its batch of incoming graduates by upto 6 months. This means that the campus hires that Flipkart had made last year who were supposed to join in June this year will have to wait till December before they can join the company.
TinyOwl Shuts Operations In All Cities Other Than Mumbai
Two-year old food tech startup TinyOwl has announced closing shop in all markets except Mumbai. This follows close on the heels of rumours of its merger with Roadrunnr.
Exclusive: In Sharp Contrast To Bangalore, Delhi Officially Gives Green Signal To Shuttle Operators
In a landmark move, the Delhi government has officially released a policy allowing private bus players to ply in Delhi NCR area. The policy attributes the “dangerous rising” pollution levels in the city and growing dependence on private vehicles, as the reason for a change and hence a new policy that allows for private players in the buses segment.
How A Variable Name Change Caused Myntra To Spam Thousands Of Its Users
A simple variable name change can often be the difference between a successful new code deployment and things going horribly, horribly wrong. Myntra’s CTO has detailed what went down when the app bombarded its surprised users with thousands of notifications for products that they’d never bought.
User Claims Zomato Solicits Paid Reviews, Gets Proven To Be Deceitful In Turn
A long time Zomato user Prateek Dham claims that Zomato’s review system is corrupt. He went public yesterday with detailed Facebook status that purports to expose Zomato’s method of monetizing with paid reviews. However, Zomato hasn’t taken kindly to this user’s claims and in an unlikely move, have responded to each allegation the user has made in a public blogpost.
Myntra Spams Users With Hundreds Of Notifications About Purchases They Never Made
Pallavi R was in a for a shock today morning when she randomly got a push notification from Myntra about a pair of Benetton shoes costing Rs. 5000 that have been delivered. The message would’ve been a welcome communication except one little detail. She never ordered those shoes. Nobody had touched her phone to have made a purchase as her.
Within minutes, hundreds of other Myntra users complained of the same. Social media was abuzz of people sharing screenshots of the incessant notifications they got from the Myntra app.
Uber Stops Its Bike Taxi Services In Bangalore
It had been a bumpy ride in Bangalore for UberMOTO, Uber’s bike taxi service, but it looks like it has finally come to an end. On Wednesday, Uber suspended all UberMOTO services in Bangalore with immediate effect.