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Amazon Outpaces Flipkart As Online Sales Revive Smartphone Demand In Q2
With social distancing becoming the new way of life, an increasing number of consumers are shopping online and even those that had preferred to make electronics purchases offline are now left with no...
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Exclusive: Travel SaaS Startup RateGain Is Raising $15 Mn From Avataar...
Travel and hospitality SaaS startup RateGain is looking to raise close to $15 Mn from Avataar Venture Partners. According to the Ministry of Corporate Affairs filings accessed by Inc42, the company...
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Amazon Launches Medicine Delivery: Bitter Pill For 1mg, NetMeds & Medlife?
Ecommerce giant Amazon has launched an online pharmacy service named ‘Amazon Pharmacy’ marking its entry in the epharmacy segment. The online pharmacy will be piloted in Bengaluru first. The company...
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Big Opportunity For Reliance Jio As Huawei, ZTE May Be Booted From 5G Trials
China’s Huawei and ZTE will be kept out of India’s plans to roll out its 5G network. Sources told Bloomberg on condition of anonymity that the Ministry of Communications will restart pending...
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Govt Releases Aarogya Setu iOS Source Code, Security Concerns Continue To Rise
The Indian government has released the source code for its contact tracing app Aarogya Setu’s iOS version, after two months of releasing the code for android. The open-source code is available on the...
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Sellers Association Knocks At RBI Doors Over Non-Payment Of Dues By Club Factory
The All India Online Vendors Association (AIOVA), which claims to represent the interests of more than 2,000 sellers, has written a letter to the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) over the non-payment of...
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Ecommerce Companies Want Six Month Extension To Comply With ‘Country Of...
Ecommerce industry associations have sought another 6-7 months extension from the government to comply with the new consumer protection rules. The mandatory listing of ‘country of origin’ for products...
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#StartupIndia: How ‘Digital India’ And ‘Make In India’ Power India’s Tech...
Back in 2014, India had just over 233 Mn internet users in a population just shy of 1.3 Bn, with a lowly penetration rate of under 20%. But with its focus on technology and boosting India’s digital...
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Announcing The Product Summit: India’s First And Largest Virtual Product...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s clarion call for ‘Vocal For Local’ along with the recent ban on over 100 Chinese apps has fueled startups and developers to build India-first apps, products, and...
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The Outline By Inc42+: The Rise Of A Startup Nation
“Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free Where the world has not been broken up into fragments By narrow domestic walls Where words come out from the depth of...
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How India’s Women-Focussed D2C Brands Are Leveraging Product Innovation To...
In today’s thriving digital economy, the relationship between brands and consumers is fast-changing personal, resulting in the emergence of direct-to-consumer or D2C brands that are fast taking over...
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Did Henry Ford Say Faster Horses?
We keep hearing “customer is the king” but rarely actually listen to her. Listening should not end with merely collecting feedback. It is even more important to understand the real “pain point” of the...
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Paytm And Insurance: A Tryst With Destiny
On July 7, Paytm announced its move to acquire Raheja QBE Insurance on July 6 for INR 568 Cr (i.e. $76.1 Mn). Although this deal is pending regulatory approval; it marks a shift away from Paytm’s...
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Movers And Shakers Of The Week [August 10 – 15]
We bring to you the latest edition of movers and shakers of the week in the Indian startup ecosystem. After the ban on Chinese apps, particularly TikTok, which had a strong user base in India, the...
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Will Modi’s Pitch For Tech-Based Healthcare Infra Be A Game Changer For...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on August 15 while addressing the nation on the occasion of India’s 74th Independence Day, launched the tech-based National Digital Health Mission (NDHM) to revolutionise...
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After Amazon, Flipkart Explores Alcohol Delivery
After ecommerce giant Amazon, homegrown rival Flipkart is planning its entry into the alcohol delivery segment in India. The Walmart-owned company has reportedly partnered with alcohol delivery startup...
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Chemist Body Writes To Bezos Calling Amazon Pharmacy Illegal
The All Indian Organisation of Chemist and Druggists (AIOCD), on Friday (August 14), wrote to Jeff Bezos calling out the launch of Amazon’s epharmacy business as “illegal”. The association, which has...
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Can India’s Defence Tech Startups Match Up To Aatma Nirbhar Bharat Challenge?
The government has found itself between a rock and a hard place with its ‘Aatma Nirbhar Bharat’ or ‘self-reliant India’ call. With the second-largest armed forces in the world, India is saddled between...
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Funding Galore: Indian Startup Funding Of The Week [August 10- 15]
We bring to you the latest edition of Funding Galore: Indian Startup Funding Of The Week! Ahead of a proposed initial public offering (IPO), Indian foodtech unicorn is likely to receive a total...
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#StartupIndia: 74 Defining Moments From India’s Startup Ecosystem In The Last...
Announced five years ago on 15 August 2015 and launched in January 2016, Startup India is often called the current Narendra Modi government’s pet projects and for good reason. The ‘Startup India,...
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