Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal, the celebrated co-founders of India’s most valuable internet firm, are back on the Forbes list of global billionaires. They had dropped out in 2016 after their firm Flipkart’s valuation nosedived amid a global funding crunch.
The world’s largest retailer is hopelessly in love with India.
Debates on startups and their eye-popping losses aren’t new in India.
India’s startup community is up in arms against the Narendra Modi government.
It hasn’t even been a year since the world’s largest e-commerce acquisition was announced. And naysayers are already predicting a doom.
India’s startup community, which has for months been lobbying for relief from the country’s vexing angel tax, may soon get some reprieve.
India may have moved one step closer to bringing back its most infamous debt defaulter, Vijay Mallya, who fled the country around three years ago.
India has just witnessed the largest ever funding round by a food-technology startup in the country.
It was in August 2016 that one of Bengaluru’s best-known gynaecologists, sitting in one of the city’s swankiest maternity hospitals, dropped a bombshell: If I didn’t change my diet immediately, “this foetus will not be viable.”
Before any Amazon parcel arrives at Sahiba Ashraf’s creaky wooden balcony on Havelock Island, it undertakes an extraordinary journey by road, air, and sea.
Six months after Flipkart, India’s largest homegrown e-commerce firm was acquired by the world’s largest retailer, Walmart, both its founders have left the building—one more unceremoniously than the other.
One of India’s most prominent tech entrepreneurs stepped down from his venture today (Nov. 13) for ambiguous reasons.
The oldest Indian private airline’s attempts to stay airborne aren’t helping much it seems.
The #MeToo movement in India saw its biggest casualty yet today (Oct. 17).
Yet another allegation of Infosys founder NR Narayana Murthy against the company’s former “outsider” management team has fallen flat on its face.
Cersei Lannister. That’s what her team calls the 33-year-old co-founder of a Bengaluru-based startup behind her back. The Game of Thrones reference—Lannister is a cutthroat empress in the series—came about last year after she sacked a newly-hired marketing head on the spot following a difference of opinion during a meeting.
It was 5:30 am on a weekday and I had been awake for the last two hours, cradling my one-year-old in my arms and panicking about how I would manage the workday, which would begin in about two hours.
Indians will soon have more control over how companies use their data.
One of Narendra Modi’s most enduring images as prime minister has him performing yoga on Rajpath, New Delhi’s main boulevard, along with hundreds of Indians behind him.
Vetting of drivers, panic buttons on phones, customer feedback—they’ve tried it all.
Just when it looked like Infosys was settling down under its new board, the spectre of an anonymous whistleblower has returned to haunt India’s second-largest IT outsourcing company.
India’s Silicon Valley, it appears, is more interested in Sunny Leone than Siddaramaiah.
Walmart is going to give its new acquisition in India lots of firepower to go head-to-head against rival Amazon.
The world’s largest retailer, Walmart, is now a force to reckon with in India. How it will run the show in Asia’s third-largest economy is anybody’s guess as of now. A look at its history and culture could help decode what India should expect from Walmart.
