Uber Launches Bike Taxi Service In Gurgaon
Uber’s announced that it will launch its bike taxi service, UberMOTO, in Gurgaon today. UberMOTO will work on Uber’s app, but will use bikes to ferry commuters around instead of cars.
Uber’s announced that it will launch its bike taxi service, UberMOTO, in Gurgaon today. UberMOTO will work on Uber’s app, but will use bikes to ferry commuters around instead of cars.
Consumer products are the flavour of the season for Indian godmen. After Baba Ramdev launched his Patanjali brand of products, Dera Sacha Sauda Chief Gurmeet Ram Rahin Singh Insaan has decided to launch his own brand of consumer products in the country.
Food startups have been in the news for all the wrong reasons these days, but Cookaroo is not your average food startup. Cookaroo aims to create value by bringing trusted restaurants and customers together, with its ready to eat, affordable and everyday meals. So whether it’s simple dal-chawal or a butter chicken meal, Cookaroo serves those for whom the everyday meal is a challenge. We met with the co-founders of this Bangalore based food startup to know what makes it tick.
Uber’s employing a creative hack to lure engineers into applying to Uber. In certain areas in the country, the company randomly sends an invitation to a quick coding game, while the person is on an Uber ride.
Flipkart CEO Sachin Bansal delivered an uncharacteristically brutal attack on Snapdeal and Paytm, but it ended up backfiring.
Uber has been accused of defacing freshly painted pillars in Bangalore with its promotional posters. Overnight, the under flyover pillars that were cleaned up and painted on by scores of anonymous activists working with an anonymous citizen activist group Ugly Indian have been defaced with Uber’s promotional posters
Infibeam’s much-awaited IPO was fully subscribed on the third day as the company successfully managed to raise the 450 crore that it had set out to do. Though interest in the IPO was muted, Infibeam created history by becoming the first Indian e-commerce company to go public.
Ola’s being chewn apart by its competition – but not on the roads. After Uber had approached the Delhi High Court accusing the company of making fake bookings on its app to sabotage its business, Jugnoo has followed suit with similar claims of its own.
London-based startup GoCardless has announced raising $13 million in a funding round led by Notion Capital to extend its service to new geographies. The total funding received by the venture has now touched $25 million. Set up in 2011, GoCardless offers an alternative to card payments by offering bank-to-bank payments online, also known as Direct Debit.