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The game that changed India: When barefooted Bengali boys took on the Raj’s...
Mohun Bagan is not a football team. It is an oppressed country, rolling in the dust, which has just started to rise its head -Achintya Kumar Sengupta in Kallol Jug Cricket is lauded as India’s national...
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Express yourself in 11 Indian languages with Swalekh, a ‘Make In India’ keypad
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart. Nelson Mandela was precisely to the point about communication in...
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‘My sketch pen is not a sword, it’s my friend’– 25 quotes from the late great...
One of the greatest cartoonists of the world, regarded as the ‘keeper of the conscience’ in India for over five decades, is no more. Rasipuram Krishnaswamy Laxman – R.K.Laxman for short – passed away...
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Startup logo design: 5 mistakes you should avoid
Every business needs a brand identity to represent and market it to the target audience. The case is no different for a startup. No matter whether you are just starting up or in the investment stage,...
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Medyog aspires to be the Uber of preventive healthcare
“It was in the year 2008, my first year in college, that I first read about Dr. Devi Shetty, Founder of Narayana Hrudalaya, and his immense contribution in the field of affordable healthcare. What...
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16 hot tech trends by prolific VCs at Andreessen Horowitz
Virtual reality 2014 can be labeled as a year that virtual reality became the talk of the town. Facebook acquired Oculus VR, the maker of virtual reality headsets for $2 billion. Sony is working on...
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Team Indus from India wins Google Lunar Xprize in the race to the moon
With its Mars Orbiter, Mangalyaan, India scientists showed that they could stand head to head with their peers in the West. Indian entrepreneurs demonstrated today that they can also stand head to head...
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Facebook goes lean, launches simpler app ‘Facebook Lite’ for low-end Android...
The next wave of the internet revolution will occur when a majority of the people in developing countries have access to stable internet connections and low cost smartphones. Google and Fidelity...
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Merchandise marketplace My Dream Store raises angel round, eyes $3 million...
While bespoke merchandise businesses were shocked when Bluegape was forced to shut shop over mounting copyright issues last year, Hyderabad-based My Dream Store, which allows people to create and sell...
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The Uncommon Man of the Common Man
While India was celebrating its 66thRepublic Day yesterday, we lost the legendary Cartoonist R. K. Laxman, a true hero of independent, democratic and republic India. When this news flashed on the...
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[Techie Tuesdays] From the streets of Lucknow to building one of the largest...
Mohit Saxena is one of the busiest people you’ll ever meet. It was easier for me to interview Bjarne Stroustrup, the Inventor of C++. It took us four rounds of scheduling and cancelling before we could...
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Twitter rolls out group messaging and a new mobile video experience
Compared to other social media platforms, Twitter had a disadvantage in terms of its limited capability on direct messaging. So far users could only send a DM(Direct Message) to one user at a time,...
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Startup valuation for dummies, how much is your company worth?
One of my techie friend started a venture with two of his mates and they had a product ready petty soon. This was relatively easy as they had the money to build the product but now the problem arises...
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Indian Venture Capital industry needs more women. Now.
In an anecdotal study in 2011, technologist and blogger Tara Tiger Brown discovered that less than 3% of comments on VC blogs are by women. It is no hidden fact that the proportion of women in tech is...
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CarDekho raises $50 million from Chinese funds
CarDekho is an auto classifieds portal started from Jaipur back in 2007. It is the flagship portal of GirnarSoft which has just announced a fund raise of $50 million in a new round of funding led by...
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Within a month of acquiring Zip Phone, Hike messenger introduces free voice...
India’s homegrown chat application Hike messenger is quick to integrate features of their recent acquisition. Within less than a month of acquiring Zip Phone, the company today introduced free ‘Hike...
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Grabhouse raises $2.5 million from Kalaari Capital and Sequoia Capital
Launched in July 2013, Grabhouse.com is a community-based online exchange for finding rented accommodation. The company has closed a Series A funding of $2.5 million from Kalaari Capital and Sequoia...
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Startups and developers, here’s your chance to build apps to tackle civic...
Hackathons are a good way for individuals to collaborate and work in a team, ideate and take a project to fruition, in a short interval of time. They also give participants a chance to enhance their...
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Want loyal customers? Make them feel good
According to a study by McKinsey, “70% of the buying experiences are based on how the customer feels they are being treated.” In other words, 70% of the business has something to do with how you make...
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Will Internet of Things give India wings this 2015?
In this article, Internet of Things (IoT) startup entrepreneurs and community leaders share their learnings from 2014 and list the trends we can expect from the Indian IoT space this year. Let us hear...
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