Housing To Lay Off 200 Employees, Totalling 800 in 3 months
After announcing 600 layoffs in September, the realty listing startup has decided to let go another 200 employees, totalling 800 or almost 50% of its 1950 strong workforce.
Category: Startups
Fired TinyOwl Employees Keep Cofounder Hostage In Office 36 Hours
The food tech crisis is getting messier. After TinyOwl’s second round of layoffs in as many months in which the company let go of a hundred employees and shut down several city offices, the company sent its senior to deliver the news in a “human” way. When cofounder Gaurav Choudhary reached the Pune office, he realized he’d got more than what he bargained for – he couldn’t get out.
Have Food Tech Startups Bitten Off More Than They Can Chew?
A year ago, the food tech sector was booming. Funds were plentiful, investors were upbeat, and a new company seemed to be coming up every minute. Cut to a year later, and things aren’t quite so rosy. There have been murmurs of overvalued companies, and investors are being more circumspect with their cash. One sector that has been particularly hard hit is the food tech industry.
Paytm Makes Push For Ecommerce; Original Wallet Business Becomes Separate App
Paytm has announced that it will be splitting its original business wallet into a separate app. The current Paytm app will soon lose its wallet functionality and become a standalone shopping app, competing with the likes of Flipkart, Amazon and Snapdeal. This move reinforces Paytm’s ambitions to become a large part of India’s ecommerce space.
Zomato’s Deal With Pickingo In Trouble
Zomato’s deal with hyper-local delivery company Pickingo appears to be in trouble. Two months ago, the company had announced an investment in Gurgaon-based Pickingo, which would’ve seen Zomato own a 10% stake in Pickingo. But the plans appears to be on hold after recent developments, reported Economic Times.
TinyOwl Lays Off Another 100 Employees
In another bad news coming in from the food tech startup world, TinyOwl is set to lay off another 100 employees
40% Of Ecommerce Goods In China Counterfeit: Report
Not too long ago, the world had its eyes on China as one of the fastest growing countries in the globe. Now its economy has been slowing down, and the future doesn’t look quite as bright any more. One of the bright spots in China’s economy was its e-commerce sector, where players like Alibaba were breaking new ground with their humungous sales figures. A new report, however, takes the sheen off these numbers.
Have E-commerce Firms Violated FDI Norms? RBI, ED Asked To Probe
The mega sales have ended. The partying is also over. E-commerce majors such as Flipkart, Amazon and Snapdeal are now in for some sobering news.
Government of India has asked Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and Enforcement Directorate (ED) to probe whether e-commerce majors have violated Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) rules by engaging in business-to-consumers (B2C) activity.
Flipkart and Amazon Try Out Online Mystery Shoppers
With several online customers facing such bad experiences in terms of pricing discrepancies, non-availability of desired products, or even receiving sub-standard or fake products, online marketers are now pulling up their socks to ensure customer satisfaction on one hand, and prevent fraud on the other. And one of the approaches taken by many ecommerce platforms, including biggies Flipkart and Amazon is introduction of the Mystery Shopper.