Paytm Raises $1.4 Billion From Softbank; Doubles Valuation In Eight Months
India’s biggest payments startup has a big new investor. Paytm CEO Vijay Shekhar Sharma has confirmed that Softbank has made a “large investment”…
Zomato Resets Passwords And Logs Out Users After 17 Million Records Stolen From Website
Zomato has become the latest startup to be hit by a security breach. The company has said that it’s just discovered that 17 million…
Wary Of A Takeover, Ola Restricts Investor’s Rights, Gives More Rights To Original Founders
It’s been a tough few months for Indian startup founders. Several CEOs have found themselves evicted from the companies they founded, cast aside by powerful…
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…
As The WannaCry Attack Takes Over Computers Worldwide, The Jokes Have Begun On Twitter
The WannaCry ransomware is now present in 150 countries around the globe, and has taken down hundreds of thousands of computers. Renault has…
An Early Paytm Investor Has Made Rs. 150 Crore By Selling His Stake To Alibaba
Paytm today is one of India’s most successful startups. It operates India’s largest wallet, has an e-commerce arm, and is thought to be…
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,…
The Incredible Impact Of The WannaCry Attack, In Eleven Pictures
Over the last few days, hundreds of thousands of computers across 150 countries in the world all began displaying the same error message…