Paytm To Take On WhatsApp, Will Launch Its Own Messaging Service
Paytm and Whatsapp started off as very different companies. WhatsApp was founded in 2009 as a chat application; Paytm was founded in 2010…
Snapdeal Now Asking Employees To Leave With One Month’s Pay, 80% Of Staff Could Be Cut
Snapdeal’s smaller investors are already peeved about the company having decided to not pursue a deal with Flipkart; its employees might just end…
Snapdeal Investor “Extremely Disappointed”, Says Founders Acted Against Interests of Investors And Employees
Snapdeal’s decision to end all talks of acquisitions and mergers hasn’t gone down with one of its earliest backers. Kalaari Capital’s…
Snapdeal Not Merging With Flipkart, Will Work On Developing Itself As An Independent Entity
The longest will they-won’t they in recent memory in the Indian startup ecosystem has ended, and two of the biggest startups in the…
MTV’s New Show On Startups Is All Roadies, No Startups
MTV hosts Raghu and Rajiv are interviewing a potential hire for their new startup. Their plan is ambitious — they want to build…
Facebook Shuts Down Its AI Bots After They Start Speaking In A Language Humans Can’t Understand
Earlier this week, Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk had locked horns over exactly the sort of topic that one would imagine billionaire technocrats…
Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos Has Surpassed Bill Gates To Become The Richest Person In The World
Through the last couple of decades, there have few things have been as constant as the title of richest man in the world. Microsoft…
Snapdeal Sells FreeCharge To Axis Bank For $60 Million, Two Years After Buying It For $400 Million
In 2015, FreeCharge was the toast of the Indian startup ecosystem. It had been founded in 2010, and merely five years later, had been…
Swiggy Says It Has “Good Reason” To Believe Blogpost Not Written By Former Employees
Swiggy has responded strongly to some of the accusations in the anonymous blogpost that went viral today morning, but its rebuttal hasn’t been complete —…