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Bengaluru’s businesses jittery after SC order, will adopt wait-and-watch policy

The Supreme Court verdict asking Karnataka to release 6,000 cusecs of Cauvery water daily to Tamil Nadu till September 27, coming on the heels of the unprecedented violence the city witnessed on...

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This IIM-Bangalore incubated startup is raising awareness about RTE and...

Our dream is to see 1.5 million schools in India getting better facilities, meeting the scarcity of over one million toilets, and enrolling the eight million students in the age group of 6–16 entitled...

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How this real-estate startup thrived within HDFC for 6 yrs to make home...

A year ago when you saw startups like Housing, Quikr or Commonfloor struggle to capture the consumers’ attention, a little known startup was slowly signing up all the builders to showcase their...

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A real tribute to the bravehearts of the Uri Attack by Union Minister

The recent Uri Attack has left every citizen with a mixed emotional rush of grief, pain and anger. Early morning on Sunday, four armed militants attacked the Indian Army Brigade headquarters situated...

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‘Be like Vishnu, not Indra’ – 10 takeaways for entrepreneurs from the...

The second annual Bangalore Business Literature Festival, presented by ManagementNext and hosted by NSRCEL at the IIM Bangalore campus, wrapped up with a wide range of insights from startup founders,...

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An open letter to laundry entrepreneurs and investors from a fellow founder

Dear friends, I introduce myself as Bala, a fellow entrepreneur in the laundry sector. I had co-founded and now run Wassup, a six-year-old startup in this space. We were one of the early organised...

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Amazon will not beat Flipkart in e-commerce till 2019: study

E-commerce in India is growing wider and deeper every day. More players are coming up in verticals and horizontals, but the early beginners continue the stronghold. According to a new study by Bank of...

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IIT Hyderabd professor develops revolutionary new material for sanitary pads

A team of engineers from the Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad has developed a nanofibers-based feminine hygiene product without super-absorbent polymers. This technology can go a long way in...

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iOS 10 is possibly the biggest OS redesign from Apple

Apple is known to step up to bolder territories pretty often. The company did it with the introduction of AirPods, and I was a happy man when, a few years ago, they introduced the MacBook Air minus...

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Floods in India will get worse, unless we take the long term, ingenious approach

With widespread drought followed by unprecedented and heavy monsoons, India has emerged as one of the biggest victims of climate change this year. Floods, flash floods, and landslides have become...

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Online furniture marketplace Pepperfry raises Rs 210cr funding from existing...

Five years since its inception in 2011, online furniture marketplace Pepperfry now has $160 million in its kitty. In Series E funding today, existing investors Goldman Sachs, Norwest Venture Partners,...

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Flipkart becomes first e-commerce marketplace in India to reach 100,000,000...

This may not come as a surprise – the big daddy of Indian e-commerce, 10-year-old Flipkart, has become the first online marketplace to cross 100 million registered users. The feat, however, is...

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Union, Rail budgets merged, ending 92-year-old parliamentary tradition

In a major overhaul, the Cabinet today approved advancing presentation of the annual Budget by a month, scrapped the over nine-decade-old tradition of having a separate Railway Budget and removed...

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How to track the conversion rate of an offline marketing effort

For savvy marketers, tracking and measuring marketing campaign performance is not just important, it’s absolutely fundamental. The insight gleaned is invaluable in guiding current and future marketing...

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How Akshali Shah is giving her father’s 1,500cr milk business a modern makeover

As little children, not many of us had definitive answers to the oft-asked, “What do you want to become when you grow up?” And today as grown individuals, we cannot help but feel envious of those who...

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This app helps you prepare for competitive exams with quality mentorship

It is a common sight to see graduates huddled outside their classrooms for an upcoming placement test. Rashmi Nandan witnessed this scene during his campus placement visits for his previous startup...

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Why an open office is a curse rather than a blessing

Nearly 70 percent of offices today have an open plan, and it is a hot favourite with startups all across the world. This is because today’s entrepreneurs believe that having an open office layout...

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Paytm now in race to collect over Rs 1,800 cr toll at highways

Mobile and commerce platform Paytm on Wednesday announced partnering with the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) to enable cashless toll collection across the highways of the country. Paytm...

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4 things we can learn from Virat Kohli

When, like me, you’ve been working in the internet industry since forever, you realise that you tend to interact and work with a certain predefined profile of people. While every person is different...

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5 questions to keep in mind while hiring someone…SMARTER

Judicious hiring is one of the ways to have a measurable positive impact on a company’s success. The market is teeming with young, competent professionals, raring to go that extra mile for the benefit...

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The changing landscape of customer communication

Communication has always been one of the primary sources of customer engagement and therefore loyalty. Irrespective of the size of the business, customer happiness and loyalty are of utmost...

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Everything you need to know about Google Allo

The very best by Google is here! If you have been jostling to find one resource that provides consolidated information about the newly launched Google Allo, Artificial Intelligence (AI) powered...

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‘Facebook for doctors’, DailyRounds raises funding led by Accel Partners

DailyRounds, a social network of doctors, announced on Wednesday that it had raised an undisclosed amount in funding led by Accel Partners, with participation from Beenext, Powerhouse Ventures, and...

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These stunning paintings are made by women and children with Down syndrome,...

It is one of our society’s incredible features – that we give space and appreciation to the many renaissance-men among us who channel their brimming expressionism into passionate strokes on a canvas....

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‘Google, Facebook are walled gardens for advertisers’

The world of advertising from the digital perspective is becoming a trading platform. Data is the gold mine and advertisers want tech to help them understand publishers that give their brands...

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