Till just a few months ago, talk of a possible merger between Uber and its fierce Indian rival, Ola, was rife. But the American cab-hailing service has clearly decided to ride solo.
Already the largest messaging app in the country with over 200 million active monthly users, WhatsApp has over the past few months quietly rolled out its payments feature to a select few.
Back in 2000, as a rookie actor with Nadira Babbar’s theatre company, Ek Jute, Sumeet Vyas earned a meagre Rs250 ($3.69) per show. So, he ventured into television and ad films to keep his wallet full. Soon he was even adapting and writing plays.
There’s been much speculation about the size of India’s e-commerce sector, which has lately been lavished with attention and funding from some of the world’s biggest venture capital firms and retailers.
Every year, between March and June, millions of school students in India find themselves under the cosh.
In 2014, Gaurang Poddar landed a job at Ernst & Young (EY) in New York after graduating with a degree in mechanical engineering and business administration from Carnegie Mellon University.
If ever there was a gold rush for data scientist jobs, India would be ground zero—or almost.
India’s e-waste problem is spiraling out of control.
Parts of India are celebrating the first signs of monsoon, but red flags are up in the country’s celebrated Silicon Valley.
After giving tough competition to telecom firms, Jio is now disrupting India’s music-streaming business.
A few years ago, a fresh-out-of-college screen-writing graduate, Harshvardhan Kapoor, went to filmmaker Vikramaditya Motwane with a script. Motwane got other ideas, though. He asked the young man to give a screen test for his upcoming film Bhavesh Joshi, which is set to release today (June 01).
One of the key actors in Newton, India’s official Oscar entry this year, failed to get into the country’s foremost theatre training institute, twice.
Try saying “WhatsApp bro?” in Sanskrit. Not working? Turn to good old Patanjali.
Just three years ago, Snapchat allegedly didn’t want to have anything to do with ”poor India.” That seems to be a thing of the past now.
Tesla’s India journey is still stuck at the start line.
In just two-and-a-half years since its launch in India, American video streaming platform Netflix has grown its library over five-fold.
Upskill or perish has become the mantra among Indian techies.
On May 24, the Narendra Modi government met a long-standing demand of the Indian startup community, announcing that angel investors will receive full exemption on their investments in startups. But certain conditions apply, effectively meaning that very few young companies gain from the move.
India’s trying to find ways to get into China’s $144 billion IT market.
A quarter of all mobile handsets sold in the world are feature phones, with no touch-screen displays or advanced computing capability. In developing regions such as Africa and India, these affordable phones often control up to 60% of the market.
Europe’s new data laws could shake up Indian IT companies.
Chinese internet giant Tencent has just made its first bet on India’s news ecosystem.
The Indian Premier League (IPL) has cricket-crazy Indians simply unwilling to move away from TV screens—not even for food. And guess who’s celebrating? Foodpanda.
In less than four years since its launch in India, a Chinese smartphone brand has overtaken the likes of Apple and Samsung in the country, thanks to what the company calls its word-of-mouth strategy.
