How inFeedo Is Helping Businesses Bolster Employee Experience Amidst Remote...
A business is a cooperative collaboration between its employees and the management. The operational efficiency and growth of a company depend on effective communication between the two, resulting in...
View ArticleKoo Raises $30 Mn From Tiger Global Amid Rival Twitter’s Standoff With Indian...
Regional language social media platform Koo has raised $30 Mn funding in its Series B with Tiger Global leading the investment round, at a time when rival Twitter is facing intense pressure from the...
View ArticleTwitter Testing Payment Feature Tip Jar In India, Partners Razorpay: Report
Twitter India is likely to soon allow users in India to use the tipping feature on its platform to support certain types of accounts and creators. The company is said to have partnered with fintech...
View ArticleGet My Parking Raises $6 Mn From IvyCap To Tap Global Smart Parking Opportunity
Bengaluru-based mobility startup Get My Parking (GMP), which operates an Internet of Things-based smart parking platform, has announced raising INR 43 Cr ($6 Mn) in its latest funding round, led by...
View ArticleWe Always Respect Local Laws, Says Google CEO Sundar Pichai
Google chief executive officer Sundar Pichai said that the Internet search giant is prepared to comply with Indian laws and all government requests. Pichai’s comments come at a time when social media...
View ArticleSBI Threatens To Suspend Credit Cards Used For Crypto Transactions
After ICICI Bank and Paytm Payments Bank recently decided to block transactions by users towards crypto exchanges, India’s largest bank State Bank of India has now issued another advisory to its...
View ArticleIndian Crypto Exchange WazirX Rolls Out NFT Marketplace With 300+ Digital...
Mumbai-based crypto startup WazirX has rolled out an NFT marketplace introducing 15 creators hailing from diverse categories such as space 3D artists, digital artists, muralist photographers, canvas...
View ArticleIndia’s Active Internet Population Likely To Touch 900 Mn By 2025: IAMAI
India is likely to have 900 million active Internet users by 2025, up from around 622 million as of 2020. This would be a 45% increase in the next five years, according to a report co-authored by the...
View ArticleSME India Invests INR 60Cr Into Lending Platform KreditBee
Private Equity fund India SME Investments has invested INR 60Cr into lending tech platform KreditBee’ through a mix of both equity and debt. The current round is a follow-up tranche of investment from...
View ArticleElectric Vehicles This Week: Govt Mulls Dropping Registration Fees For EVs,...
Looking to boost the production and sales of electric vehicles in the Indian market, the central government has proposed removing the registration fees associated with battery-operated vehicles or...
View ArticleGovt’s Financial Stability Council To Start Addressing Regulatory Challenges...
The Financial Stability and Development Council (FSDC), a government affiliated body, has set-up a new inter-regulatory panel to specifically address regulatory challenges within the fintech industry,...
View ArticleFunding Galore: From Delhivery To Locus — $462 Mn Raised By Indian Startups...
The biggest news from the point of view of Indian startup funding this week was the $275 Mn raised by Delhivery in what is expected to be the final funding round before the firm files for an IPO later...
View ArticleDelhi HC Dismisses Juhi Chawla’s Petition Against 5G Rollout, Imposes INR 20...
A Delhi High Court bench dismissed a petition filed by actress Juhi Chawla which challenged the rollout of 5G network in the country. While quashing the petition, the court also imposed an INR 20 lakh...
View ArticleClubhouse To Launch Payments Feature In India
India is one of the fastest adopters of viral social audio app Clubhouse after it launched on the Android platform in May 2021, a senior official of the company said in a recent press event. The app is...
View ArticleGovt Says Twitter India Will Face ‘Consequences’ If It Doesn’t Fall In Line
The Indian government has given an ultimatum to social media platform Twitter to comply with the newly framed intermediary liability guidelines that came into effect on May 26. The letter from the...
View ArticleTech Companies Plan Massive Vaccination Drive For Frontline Workers
As India’s daily Covid-19 cases have dropped to one lakh and twenty thousand, Indian states are slowly phasing out the regular lockdown. Meanwhile, tech companies — Amazon, Flipkart, Bigbasket, Uber,...
View ArticleAhead Of IPO, Paytm Narrows Loss By 42% To INR 1,704 Cr In FY21
Indian digital payments giant Paytm saw its overall revenue take a hit amid the pandemic as it fell 9.9% from INR 3,540.77 in FY20 to INR 3,186.8 in FY21 on a consolidated basis. On the verge of a $3...
View ArticleDelhivery Aims To List By March 2022, Will Look to Raise $500Mn
IPO-bounced logistics tech unicorn major Delhivery is aiming to go public in the domestic market between December 2021 and March 2022, the startup’s chief executive officer Sahil Barua told Economic...
View ArticleKarnataka Threatens Legal Action Against Amazon Canada For Selling Bikini...
Amazon is going from one controversy to another in India, with individual state governments and political parties putting pressure on the company over various disparate issues. After facing protests in...
View ArticleCarDekho Plans To Raise $150 Mn In Series E Funding, To Enter Unicorn Club
Gurugram-based automobile marketplace CarDekho is set to join India’s fast-increasing bandwagon of unicorns. According to reports, the startup is in talks with investors to raise a minimum of $150 Mn...
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