India

CM Chandrababu Naidu Building a High Tech State
Blockchain and IoT are the Future for Andhra Pradesh Formation of Telangana has impacted Andhra Pradesh in a big way economically as Hyderabad will be taken over by the former in next 10 years. Andhra Pradesh CM, Chandrababu Naidu, the man who single-handedly built Hyderabad into India’s largest IT hub

In Conversation with Nitin Babel, Co-founder of Niki.ai
Chatbots Revolutionizing e-Commerce Founded in April 2015 by four IIT Kharagpur alumni- Nitin Babel, Keshav Prawasi ,Sachin Jaiswal and Shishir Modi- Niki.ai is an artificial intelligence-based chatbot that uses the state-of-the-art technology like natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning to converse with humans on a simple chat interface and

GoDaddy Launches Flare, the Tinder of Startup Community
People’s Community to Develop Business Ideas Cloud-based domain service provider, GoDaddy, just launched a new app called Flare. It is being pegged as the Tinderfor entrepreneurs. It is an app where people can come and discuss their ideas, and get feedback from other entrepreneurs and members in real time. Insights

Assam’s Oil India Ltd. Announces INR 50 crorefund to boost Startups That Don’t Even Exist
Whose Benefitting At All? A couple of days ago, we wrote about how Modi’s Startup India campaign has nothing to show for even after nearly 2 years of its announcement. Now comes a curious case about Assam’s state-run Oil India Ltd. The company has announced a Rs. 50-crore fund to

INDIA’S FIRST BREAK THROUGH CROSS OVER ELECTRIC BIKE
huge step by VOLTA towards the futuristic developments in e-vehicles VOLTA motors is a Chennai based start-up focused completely on electric vehicle manufacturing for the Indian and global industry. They have designed and developed India’s first cross-over electric bike completely in India, boldly representing the MAKE IN INDIA strategy. India

Flipkart Rolls Out Employee Stock Options
Expressing Employee Value? India’s leading e-commerce platform, Flipkart, has rolled out Employe Stock Options (ESOP) to a third of its employee force. This is being seen as a milestone move by many in the industry for the company led by Binny Bansal and Sachin Bansal. What is an ESOP? An

Meet Blink: India’s very own Smart Wearable from Witworks
A first for IoT firm, Witworks Witworks, an Indian consumer IoT firm, has just launched its first smart wearable called Blink, which is powered by Marvin OS, their own voice-based OS. Blink is now available for pre-order and starts at a price tag of INR 12,999/-. It comes with a

M.S. Dhoni- A Cricketer With A Visionary Business Bent
A Successful Captain.A Successful Businessman. He is hailed as the most successful captain of the Indian cricket team. But he also has keen interest in business. The new movie M.S. Dhone- The Untold Story might just cover his cricketing story but rest assured, he is doing more than that in

Future of Work is in Startups says GoDaddy Survey
The rising tide of Entrepreneurship A global survey was conducted by GoDaddy in collaboration Morar Consulting this year. It was a global survey in which 7,291 professionals participated from countries like Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Hong Kong, India, Mexico, Singapore, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States. The main

Hotelbids lets you find your Stay at your Price
A concept advancing through empty rooms Hotelbids is an app that avails last-minute hotel bookings. The man behind this app is Mr. Inder Sharma, a serial entrepreneur and founder of Hotel.com. With a valuable experience in the hospitality industry for over 20 years, he continuously observedthat customers were not getting