- CouponDunia’s Sameer Parwani Calls Out Kunal Bahl On Twitter Over Payment Woes In an ongoing saga of escalating woes, Snapdeal has once again incurred the ire of a fellow player in the startup ecosystem – this time, it is CouponDunia, a third-party vendor with Snapdeal. The Times Internet-owned startup’s CEO and co-founder Sameer Parwani took to Twitter to express his ire against the beleaguered company’s payment practices, […]
- Times Internet and HDFC Bank Launch Debit Card For Online Shopping To Entice Indian Millennials India’s working and spending population has never been as robust as it is in 2016. With Millennials (18-30 age group) making up 64% of the 1.3 billion population by 2021, starting their first jobs; their spending power has become the focus of businesses everywhere. Keeping this strategic demographic in mind, Times Internet (of the Times […]
- CouponDunia Launches Premium Lifestyle Card ‘Quirk’ In Bangalore Mumbai-based online coupon and cashback site CouponDunia has launched a premium lifestyle card – Quirk. This card has been initially launched in Bangalore. It will specifically cater to the lifestyle needs of the urban city dwellers and will offer exceptional privileges in a curated list of 50 restaurants and bars in town. Some of Quirk […]
- Coupondunia Launches Last Minute Hotel Booking App Sorted Mumbai-based online coupon and cashback site Coupondunia has launched a last-minute hotel booking mobile application, Sorted. The platform currently curates options to book a hotel up to 72 hours in advance and works on a commission based revenue model. Sorted claims to offer last minute bookings in over 200 cities like Mumbai, New Delhi, Gurgaon, Bangalore, Goa, […]
- News Roundup: 10 Startup Stories You Don’t Want to Miss this Week [9 May – 14 May] Rahul Yadav has shut down his new venture Intelligent Interface. The company called Intelligent Interfaces was supposed to provide intelligent data aggregation and visualisation solutions to the Government of India, to make governance 100 times more efficient. The raised funding for this venture has reported to have dried out and Rahul has registered three more companies […]
- News Roundup: 12 Startup Stories That You Don’t Want To Miss This Week [25 April – 30 April] A recent report by IAMAI states that the proposed 6% equalisation levy of tax, also termed as ‘Google Tax’, on digital ad firms by Modi Government, will significantly increase business cost for tech startups. Nasscom To Take 30 Tech Startups To Valley NASSCOM is hosting the third edition of Nasscom Innotrek 2016. The program is […]
- CouponDunia Revamps Business Focus; Launches Cashback Mumbai-based coupon site, CouponDunia, has announced the launch of cashback. Sameer Parwani, founder, and CEO of CouponDunia, said, “Our aim has always been to be the pre-shopping destination that consumers visit before making any transaction online. Adding cashback brings CouponDunia a step closer to that goal.” With this, the company has also undergone a complete […]
- Will Modi Play Santa For #StartupIndia On 16th January? Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘Startup India, Standup India’ initiative is no less than a rock concert in its own. Scheduled for 16th January, the event has seen a massive response for the coveted 1,500 passes, with about 1 lakh participants for the same. That is a ratio of 1:0.015 which means everyone who applied stood […]
- The Eureka Moment Stories Behind The Names Of 36 Indian Startups You Know Centuries ago, Shakespeare had said, What’s in a name? That which we call a rose, By any other name would smell as sweet. And centuries later, every James Bond movie still has the classic line, The name is Bond.. James Bond. While Shakespeare extolled the meaninglessness of names when it came to love, James Bond’s […]
- Wipro’s Sexual Harassment Case Should Serve As A Wake Up Call For Startups The recent allegations against IT giant Wipro of sex discrimination, unequal pay, harassment and unfair dismissal filed by former employee Shreya Ukil come within a fortnight of a study released by the ET Intelligence Group. The study stated that an examination of the annual reports of 46 Nifty companies showed a total of 415 cases […]
- With 20K Transactions Taking Place Everyday, CouponDunia Wants To Become Everyone’s Favorite Deal Spot No one minds a good deal. And that is why promotions in the form of discounts, sales or coupons, have always been an important tool for businesses to target more customers. Promotions could be done with the motive of acquiring new clientele, or clear stocks, or introduce a new product in the market. With the […]
- “60% Of Online Shoppers Are Men”- CouponDunia Half Yearly Insights CY2015 The latest half yearly infographics released by CouponDunia for CY 2015 is titled – “Decoding Metro Shoppers”. The report unveils interesting insights about choice of brands, devices, categories, favourite days of couponing in Mumbai, Delhi and Bangalore; as listed below. Friday is the most popular day across three cities to look up coupons for recharges, […]