What funding crunch and pressure for profits? It’s India’s biggest festive season and, as usual, e-commerce players are splurging. Between September and December, the cash…
ENDLESS ENTERTAINMENT
India may be watching more videos online than ever but content makers are not earning much
Online video consumption in India is on fire, but content companies are struggling. Between January and June 2015 (H1 2015), and January and June 2017…
THERE'S ONE UP ITS SLEEVE
An Indian startup knows the trick to make online content go viral—with or without Facebook
At a time when media houses the world over are struggling for eyeballs, a 27-year-old from Indore, Madhya Pradesh, has found a way to get…
JOBS! JOBS! JOBS!
Looking for a job? India Inc finally has some good news for you
Indian job seekers may finally have some reason to rejoice. After declining for three quarters, India’s hiring momentum is expected to pick up pace during…
MATRIMONY IPO
In the age of Tinder, India’s most popular website for arranged marriages is going public
Dating apps like Tinder and Woo may be trendy, but when it gets serious, it is India’s matrimonial websites that still rule the roost. As…
GENDER GAP
Only 7% of women reach the C-suite at Indian IT companies
Researchers may believe that having more woman employees results in higher revenue, but Indian technology firms don’t seem to care much about that. Women make…
SECOND INNINGS
After a stormy 2016, Softbank has smartly but cautiously picked up the pieces in India
After lurching from one disaster to another in 2016, Japan’s Softbank is hitting all the right notes this year. Be it the whopping $1.4 billion…
OLD GUARD
The world ain’t so flat after all, Mr Nilekani?
“I’ll watch how Infosys is progressing…from outside.” That’s how Infosys co-founder Nandan Nilekani wrapped up his farewell speech at the company’s Bengaluru headquarters on July…
SMART ENOUGH YET?
The fate of smartphones in India depends on festivals and feature phones
The world’s second-largest smartphone market hasn’t had it easy over the past few months. After demonetisation prompted a cash crunch that hit sales, the complications…
GOODS AND SERVICES TECH
A legal startup is doubling its business helping other startups navigate the GST
It began in June with a stream of panic calls from small-business owners who had just heard that the goods and services tax (GST) was…
REVERSE THE REGRESSION
More funds, less cow dung: Angry Indian scientists’ message to the Modi government
Chennai/New Delhi Suresh Govindarajan spent Wednesday (Aug. 09) evening walking the length of Chennai’s Elliot’s Beach in silent protest. The professor of physics at the…
NOT FOR ALL AGES
Wanted at Indian tech firms: opinionated millennials
The CEO of India’s biggest mobile wallet firm, Paytm, recently sent out a tweet seeking applications for a product manager’s job. It read: Calling app…
