Itika Sharma Punit

Online food discovery portal, Zomato, has done a yummy twist on Panama Papers.

Indian online retailers have been among the best paymasters over the last few years, but those employed in the sector may be in for a rude shock this appraisal season.

Leading mobile messaging app, WhatsApp yesterday (April 5) said it has encrypted all chats and calls on its platform across the world. The Facebook-owned company will no longer be able to read the messages or watch the video calls by its users even if it was ordered to do so by a court or government.

With a special flash sale, the launch of a flagship device and an investment in a local media company, China’s Xiaomi is upping its game in India.

After a slump in the last quarter of 2015, investments in Indian startups are back with a bang. However, much of the party is limited to early-stage startups.

Heavy discounting and exclusive launches of smartphones have started to pay off in the Indian e-commerce sector.

At least 18 persons were killed and many others injured after an under-construction flyover collapsed on a busy road in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata in West Bengal in mid-day traffic today (March 31).

Several successful startups across the world have been founded by former employees of other startups. The best example is the “PayPal mafia“—or the 13 men who have given birth to companies such as YouTube, Tesla Motors, LinkedIn, SpaceX, and Yelp.

The British tabloid, The Sun, has launched a contest to find the best breasts in Britain. And Indian men appear to be quite serious about winning.

The Indian government has clarified its policy for foreign direct investment (FDI) in the fast-growing e-commerce sector. And the new policy seems to have left some of the large incumbents dumbstruck.

Indian internet startups have been all about hypergrowth and rapid expansion. But NoBroker.com, a Bengaluru-based peer-to-peer online rental platform, has consciously decided to go slow.

On March 21, thousands of widowed women gathered at temples in Vrindavan in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh to celebrate the spring festival of Holi. In doing so, they violated a 400-year-old Hindu tradition.

The race in the Indian taxi app business may have entered a second—and more intense—lap.

The initial public offering (IPO) of Infibeam, to be launched later today (March 21), is keenly awaited despite its small size.

Flipkart co-founder and executive chairman, Sachin Bansal, thinks Indian technology reporters have “low standards” and should be ignored.

It seems India’s biggest e-commerce firms are finally being punished for their ruthless disregard for profits.

There was a sharp increase in online searches for gastroenterologists (doctors specialising in the digestive system) in India in 2015 from a year ago, according to healthcare startup, Practo.

Indian business tycoon Vijay Mallya, currently at an undisclosed location even as a massive loan default probe involving him is underway back home, has denied giving an interview to a Delhi-based newspaper last week. The interview, which appeared on The Sunday Guardian’s website on March 12, had stated that Mallya did not feel it was the right time for him to return to India.

One of India’s most high-profile businessmen, Vijay Mallya, has gone from setback to setback. His beleaguered airline, Kingfisher Airlines, owes over Rs9000 crore ($1.5 billion) to 17 banks.

In recent years, celebrating International Women’s Day on March 8 has become pretty mainstream in India. The day marks the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women.

India’s appetite for the iPhone isn’t just limited to big cities, recent data published by market intelligence firm IDC shows, suggesting that the company is making inroads into Asia’s third-largest economy.

By 11 am on Feb. 29, several entrepreneurs and investors in Bengaluru—India’s Silicon Valley—had shelved all their work to sit before their television sets.

Getting attention from the government is a new phenomenon for India’s startup community.

Narendra Modi’s affection for India’s fledgling startup ecosystem is well known.