Pankaj Mishra
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Bengaluru, KA, India
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The 5 biggest tech stories out of India this week
It's been another action-packed week for India's tech and startup scene. Here are the highlights:1. Google launched Areo, a hyper local app for food delivery and services. In a really strange move, Google has kind of entered the food delivery services market in India, which has seen quite a bloodbath over the past year with the likes of FoodPanda shutting down operations. → Read More
The 5 biggest tech stories out of India this week
It's been an action-packed week for India's tech and startup scene. Here are the highlights: → Read More
Sources: India’s Flipkart in talks to raise up to $1B, likely in a down round
After years of raising hundreds of millions of dollars to tap into the burgeoning e-commerce market in India, one of the country's biggest tech companies is.. → Read More
India’s Snapdeal Now Gets Over Half Its Sales Through Mobile As M-Commerce Goes Mainstream
India's largest e-commerce marketplace, Snapdeal, now gets over half of its sales from mobile-based transactions, up from just 5% from the same platform.. → Read More
Sherpalo Partner Launches $90M India Fund As Ram Shriram, Kleiner Shift Focus Away From India
Sandeep Murthy, a general partner at Sherpalo who managed the firm's India investments, is launching two new funds -- Lightbox Ventures I that has already.. → Read More
Concur Increases Stake In India’s Cleartrip, Buys Out Sherpalo and Kleiner
Travel and expense management company Concur wants a bigger pie of the $3 billion Indian online travel market. The company has just concluded negotiations.. → Read More
InMobi Launches Native Ad Platform To Woo Publishers Looking Beyond Facebook, Google
Native mobile advertising is on fire, especially for independent ad networks looking to challenge their much bigger and established rivals. InMobi, is.. → Read More
Avaz Raises $550K In Seed To Help Autistic Children Communicate Using Visual Tools
Over half a million children with autism in the next decade will become adults, underscoring a growing challenge that needs to be dealt in the future. But.. → Read More
Big Data Startup Frrole Raises $245K Angel Round, As Crowdfunding Platforms Seek Growth In India
Frrole, a big data startup that specializes in Twitter-based analytics, has raised $245K in Angel funding from investors including Sharad Sharma (former head.. → Read More
Data Analytics Startup Beckon Raises $8M As Marketers Look Beyond Generic Tools
Beckon, a California-based startup that helps marketers track their spend using data analytics, has raised $8 million in Series A funding from August Capital.. → Read More
Guy Kawasaki Joins Australian Design Startup Canva As Chief Evangelist
Guy Kawasaki, who held the chief evangelist title at Apple during late nineties, is joining Australian design startup Canva, making a comeback into the role.. → Read More
India’s Snapdeal Acquires Fashion Discovery Site Doozton, As Battle For Online Fashion Heats Up
Online fashion retail is fast becoming the next battlefront for India's growing e-commerce startups. With two of the biggest Indian e-commerce companies --.. → Read More
TPG Growth Commits $100M With India’s Smile To Help Internet Cos Tap Emerging Markets
TPG Growth has committed around $100 million in a joint venture with India's Smile Group for helping Internet and e-commerce companies build and scale their.. → Read More
Political Siri, Big Data Startups Rise Amid Indian Elections
With nearly 814 million people set to vote over next few weeks in India's general elections, the biggest democratic exercise on the planet, political parties.. → Read More
Indian Software Product Startups Pitch Ideas To Fortune 500 CIOs
After years of working with India's over $100 billion IT services industry for maintaining their software systems, application development and back office.. → Read More
India’s Flipkart Nears $330M Myntra Deal, As Common Investors Push To Fight Amazon, eBay
India's biggest e-commerce company, Flipkart, is in the final stages of completing a merger deal with the country's fast growing online fashion retailer.. → Read More
Facebook’s India User Base Crosses 100M, Set To Become Its Biggest Market
India is inching closer to overtake the U.S. as Facebook's biggest market, at least in terms of the number of active users. With over 100 million users as.. → Read More
Pitney Bowes Launches Startup Accelerator In India To Hunt For Its Next Big E-Commerce, Mobile Ideas
Pitney Bowes, the 94-year-old producer of stamp postage meters attempting to become an e-commerce platform, is the latest to tap into India's engineering.. → Read More
India’s Homeshop18 Files For $75M Nasdaq IPO, Ahead Of Bigger E-Commerce Rivals
Homeshop18, an Indian TV shopping and online retail company owned by media conglomerate Network18 Media, has filed for $75 million IPO on Nasdaq, ahead of.. → Read More
Appiterate Raises Seed Funding From SAIF Partners, Joins Growing List Of A/B Testing Startups
Testing design and content features on-the-go to identify what users want is nothing new -- it's over a decade old process used by Google (and now Facebook.. → Read More