We trawled the social media activity of some of the most active brands on social media, and picked up the choicest of examples of times when customers had no chill, and used a brand’s well-meaning campaigns as a customer complaint redressal forum.
Hike messenger, India’s homegrown competitor to Whatspp, has touched an important milestone – it claims to touched have 100 million users. Started in December 2012, Hike has seen a steady growth in its users since its inception, though it saw stiff competition from Whatsapp among India’s user base.
Housing has raised Rs. 100 crore from Softbank in new round of funding. Softbank is already the largest investor in Housing and has a 33% stake in the company.
CREO, a Bangalore based Technology Company, has secured $3 Million funding from Sequoia India, Beenext Ventures and India Quotient.
Baby and maternity products retailer, FirstCry.com, which is owned by Brainbees Solutions Pvt Ltd., has received funding of undisclosed amount from eminent industrialist Ratan Tata. Tata has already invested in over a score of companies including Snapdeal, Paytm, Ola and CarDekho in his personal capacity.
Eight Indian startups are a part of Google’s first ever Launchpad Accelerator that began on Monday in Silicon Valley.
Housing.com has appointed Snehil Buxy as its Chief Product Officer. Buxy was a part of the original 12 member founding team of Housing. The 26 year old was also close to former CEO Rahul Yadav.
“Your urging has the flavour of reducing this meaningful constructive exercise designed to produce informed decisions into a crudely majoritarian and orchestrated opinion poll.” This isn’t a school headmaster admonishing an errant student. It’s TRAI letting Facebook know what it thought of its Free Basics poll that generated 9 million responses.
Over the last year, India has seen a mushrooming of chat apps that aimed to connect consumers directly with businesses. Services like LookUp, Haptik and Helpchat all had business models that involved setting up and easy, phone-based communication channel between users and local businesses, and had met with varying levels of success. But the industry is now likely to be upturned. Whatsapp, the global chat behemoth with 70 million Indian users, is looking to enter the space in a big way.