A Six-Year-Old Indian Startup Has Quietly Entered The Unicorn Club, And Is Already Worth $2 Billion
It hasn’t been a good few months for Indian unicorns. Flipkart has seen its value fall from $15 billion to 11 billion, Ola has…
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How One Developer’s Carelessness, And A Hack Of A Completely Unrelated Website Led To The Zomato Hack
A butterfly flaps its wings somewhere in the universe, and two years later, 17 million Zomato passwords and emails are stolen. On 28th…
Here’s How The New Paytm Payments Bank Compares To Airtel’s Payments Bank
After several delays, and much back-and-forth, Paytm has finally launched its own Payments Bank. Paytm now has the third payments bank in the country,…
Uber Has Now Started Charging Fares Based On How Much It Thinks Particular Passengers Can Afford
Uber has already brought about a revolution in way taxi rides are priced. Before it had been founded, taxi rides cost a simple…
World’s Nicest Hacker Waives Poor Person’s Ransom, Asks Them To Buy Him A Coffee Instead
Hackers have been getting a bad rap over the last few months. Their attacks have targeted hospitals, factories, and governments, and thousands of ordinary people…
Bill Gates Has Just Given Out Lots Of Inspiring Advice For New College Graduates
Bill Gates never finished college – he had dropped out of Harvard in his second year to start a company. The company was…
Nestaway Mocks Jobless Celebrities In Tasteless New Social Campaign
How do you promote a referral scheme for your home rental startup? By making fun of jobless people, of course. Nestaway, which acts…
Amazon Appears To Have Narrowly Beaten Flipkart In The Sales This Year
The grand sales are very much like the final exams for the three large Indian e-tailers — firms compete head-on on overlapping dates,…
Dove’s Body Positivity Campaign Backfires After Customers Troll Its Differently Shaped Bottles
Marketers have been increasingly latching on to social causes to promote their products. Social campaigns can often work well – they don’t look…