Zomato might now be one of India’s most valuable 50 companies, but it’s continuing to innovate like a startup. Zomato is testing out…
The list of global tech companies manufacturing their products in India continues to grow longer. India’s Dixon has partnered with Nokia to make…
Over the last few years, technologists had been debating over whether humanity would ever create AGI, or Artificial General Intelligence, which would surpass…
All manner of multinational companies already have their presence in India, but India is now featuring ever more prominently in their plans. US-based…
Sundar Pichai, newly appointed CEO of Google is on a maiden visit to his native country after being appointed chief in August this year.
Speaking at a high-profile Google India event, Pichai was all hope giving and positive news sharing from Google’s stable. Pichai announced some major plans the tech giant has for India.
Companies are known to be capitalistic, cold and impersonal entities who’re out there to take your money.
However, every now and then they do little gestures, that makes them come across as personal, caring and send warm and fuzzies your way. In their own ways, they go out of their way to reach out and touch.
Call it a clever marketing hack or a genuine gesture, here’s a few instances when some companies – known or small – made people’s days with their thoughtful acts.
India’s food tech companies aren’t exactly known for their great customer service. The Facebook pages of Foodpanda, Swiggy and the like are littered with rants from irate customers who’ve been left hungry when their orders haven’t been processed as they’d have liked. The latest entrant in the food ordering game though is trying to do things differently. When a Zomato customer complained on twitter that he hadn’t received an order, he was in for a surprise.
Zipgo, the online-demand shuttle service has now launched a women only bus service in the Delhi region to tackle 2 of Delhi’s biggest problems- Women’s safety and the traffic situation.
The firing season for Indian startups is not quite over. After the flurry of layoffs last month when Zomato, TinyOwl and Helpchat had fired employees, there had been a lull in the bad news coming in from India’s startup space. Not any more.
It has been reported that realty startup Grabhouse has fired an undisclosed number of workers. These layoffs are chiefly in the operations and data collection teams.
In the days of a spurt of online startups with few distinguishable features, and insta-ROI driven marketing strategy, the tried and tested methods…
Snapdeal, Amazon and Flipkart have been locked in fierce battle for India’s e-commerce pie. The sites currently all offer similar product selections, similar clean interfaces, and similar discounts. But Snapdeal has now brought about an innovation that can help it stand out in India’s cluttered e-commerce space. In a bid to appeal to the non-metro areas of India, Snapdeal’s site will soon be available 11 new Indian languages.
The Aditya Birla Group may be decades old, but it is still keeping up with the times. Under its Bizlabs incubation programme, the group will partner with 25 startups to bolster its new areas of business in retail, financial services and telecom.
When a Quora user decided to take to the famous question-answer platform to get help to know which among startups Practo, Quikr, Snapdeal or Directi he should join, he hardly expected the CEOs to reply.
