- Movers And Shakers Of The Week [21-26 May 2018] With India continuing to be the focus of major global players, there have been several new additions to the teams working in India. In one such move, social media giant Facebook is scouting for India Head and Spencer Stuart, global executive search and leadership consulting firm, has considered or shortlisted executives like Star India MD […]
- News Roundup: 3 Startup Stories You Don’t Want To Miss This Week [12 December – 17 December] After months of speculation, Amazon announced the launch of its Prime Video service in India. Prime Video is an additional offering for Amazon’s Prime subscribers, including existing ones and allows users exclusive access to movies, Amazon’s original series as well as premium content from across the globe. In a separate development, the other US ecommerce giant […]
- A Fitness Coach, A Bot That Waits Tables, And A Bot That Deejays: What Came Out Of TLabs’ Bot Hackathon From bringing you your daily dose of news to booking a cab for you; from answering your health queries to resolving your fashion dilemmas; from being your personal assistant to being your personal gym trainer; bots are now doing it all for you, day in day out. But why have bots become the new flavour […]
- Mobile App Analytics Trends: 62 Experts Discuss The Biggest Trends If you have a mobile app, you want more answers. You want to know more about what your users want, who your most profitable customers are, how to retain them, engage them etc. And mobile app analytics is continually evolving to give you better answers. So what are the biggest trends in mobile app analytics that you […]
- Wharton India Economic Forum Invites Startup Applications For Wharton India Startup Competition 2017 The 21st Wharton India Economic Forum (WIEF) has announced that it will play host to the Wharton India Startup Competition for the fourth year. Founded in 1996, Wharton India Economic Forum (WIEF), is an annual conference hosted by the students at Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. It is a global business forum focussed […]
- Funding Galore: Startup Fundings Of The Week [4 April -9 April] This week 12 startups raised about $34 Mn in funding altogether (the funding amount is based on the startups that disclosed their funding amounts). Startup That Raised Funding This Week Imedilane: Healthcare startup Imedilane raised $40K in a funding round from angel investors – Mahendra Patel and Nilender Chauhan. Imedilane currently has a team of over […]
- Haptik Gets Times Internet As Strategic Investor; Hopes To Leverage Its 150 Mn User Base Marking the beginning of a strategic alliance, chat based personal assistant app Haptik has raised an undisclosed amount in its Series B funding from Times Internet. The funds will be utilised for for product development, improving artificial intelligence capabilities and business operations. Aakrit Vaish, CEO of Haptik, stated, “ We started Haptik so that consumers […]
- Progress Report: Here’s How Our Top 15 Startup Picks Of 2014 Fared This Year As the curtain closes on another exciting year, we at Inc42, like always, pause for a while to look back, contemplate, analyse, predict and come up with our series of year-end stories that would perfectly sum up the past year, offer near-perfect predictions for the next year (our predictive algorithm is top-notch), and progress reports. […]
- JARVIS, Watch Out! Chat Based Personal Assistance Apps Are Catching Up Fast From booking hotels and cabs, to delivering your groceries, to letting users set up reminders for personal responsibility, meetings, tasks or reminders, chat-based assistants are now organising our lives like our very own personal assistants. No wonder, every day they are becoming more and more adept at understanding and processing handling all sorts of possible […]
- Now Chat For A Cab Ride; Ola Partners With Haptik Haptik Inc., a customer-based chat services company, has announced its partnership with online cab aggregator Ola. As part of the deal, users will be able to book Ola cabs through instant messaging on the Haptik mobile app. 500,000 users of Haptik in 102 cities, where Ola is currently functional, can avail the service. Speaking on […]
- News Roundup: 10 Stories You Don’t Want To Miss This Week [28 Sept – 03 October] This week, the government finally announced the names of the four people who will be ambassadors for the Digital India campaign. These included Ankit Fadia, Krati Tiwari, Satwat Jagwani and Pranav Mistry. The four will be responsible for creating mass awareness about the program. Let’s Have A Look At The Important Developments Of The Week: […]
- News Roundup: 9 Stories You Don’t Want To Miss This Week [24 August -29 August] Flipkart has put its plans to go app only on hold. The company is said to be concerned about mobile app only sales in big-ticket categories such as large appliances and furniture. For which, the company is experimenting with various aspects of service before going app only. Let’s Have A Look At The Important Developments […]