Uber, Ola Cars Seized For Not Complying With Surge Pricing Directives
Vehicles belonging to Ola and Uber have been seized in Bangalore for continuing to apply surge pricing rates. Rame Gowda, the commissioner of transport and road safety, said that more than 30 vehicles have been impounded and operations against the two companies are continuing.
After A Curious Case Of A Fake International Travel Booking, MakeMyTrip Sued
Two builders from bangalore were in for a rude shock at the airport when the tickets and VISAs they had booked for a business trip to Singapore, booked through MakeMytrip, turned out to be fake.
Paytm Makes Its Biggest Offline Push Yet; Launches Free Public Wifi
Paytm is planning to launch public Wifi hotspots which will allow people to access their Paytm accounts when they’re on the move.
Ola Denies Acquisition Talks With Uber; Seeks To Take Legal Action Against DNA
Rubbishing the report carried by DNA and putting any rumours of an Ola-Uber merger to rest, Bhavish Aggarwal, co-founder and CEO, Ola has taken to Twitter and has penned an impassioned blogpost.
Here’s How An Indian Student Made Money Off Mark Zuckerberg’s Daughter
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg had been very public about his wife pregnancy and the impending birth of his daughter. He’d been posting updates and pictures, and the world had gushed at the arrival of the first infant of the tech world. However, an Indian student had been following the developments with completely different aims in mind, and now he’s made bank.
How This Developer Deleted His Entire Company With One Line Of Bad Code
A web hosting company sees all its data disappear in flash as a developer types in a few wrong characters of code.
Smartphone Manufacturing Picks Up In India; LG, Micromax Set Up Units
South Korean electronics giant LG has commenced manufacturing smartphones in India at its Noida unit. It launched two new models – the K10 and K7 – which will be manufactured in India and targets to manufacture 1 million phones in India annually.
Flipkart’s 2016: Top Exits Aplenty, A Shaky Start
With a new CEO, and 5 of its top execs gone, amidst a snipped valuation and a funding slowdown, and still a sign of profits to come, Flipkart, at least on the face of it, looks to be on the shaky ground.
Burrp Copies Zomato’s Privacy Statement, Gets Hilariously Called Out
Businesses are often accused of copying images, content, designs, and sometimes the entire business models. But sometimes you can get called out for copying another website’s privacy page of all things.
In a Twitter post, Pramod Rao, Zomato’s head of marketing, today called out Burrp, one of India’s first restaurant review and lifestyle websites, for having copied its entire privacy page. How did Zomato know? The copy was such a shoddy job that Burrp managed to copy a link to Zomato’s website as it is.