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Zomato acquires restaurant POS MaplePOS; One step closer to food delivery?
Food aggregator Zomato has acquired cloud-based restaurant point-of-sale (POS) product MaplePOS for an undisclosed amount. The company will work on integrating MaplePOS’s services with Zomato... .
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PolicyBazaar raises $40M from PremjiInvest; focus on PaisaBazaar
Gurgaon based eTechAces Marketing and Consulting, the owner of the online policy aggregator PolicyBazaar, has raised $40 million in a Series D round of funding... .
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Google is looking to set up a cache server in India, says report
Technology giant Google is looking at setting up a cache, or mirror, server in India which will enable quicker searches and stream YouTube videos faster,... .
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Grofers raises $35 million; expansion plans in the pipeline
Hyperlocal delivery service provider Grofers has raised funding worth $35 million led by existing investor Tiger Global Management and participation from Sequoia Capital India, reports... .
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Vserv ties-up with Talking Tom maker Outfit7 to offer mobile games...
Vserv has integrated Outfit7’s Android games monetization and user engagement platform Bee7 to its app monetization solution VMAX, to offer mobile game developers in the... .
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Nokia buys Alcatel-Lucent for $16.58B; Looking at sale of HERE business
Network equipment maker Nokia has bought French telecommunications equipment company Alcatel-Lucent for €15.6 billion or $16.58 billion in an all share deal. Through a public exchange... .
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PepperTap raises $10 million; to focus on grocery delivery
Gurgaon-based hyperlocal grocery service PepperTap has raised Series A funding worth $10 million from SAIF Partners and Sequoia Capital, reports TechCrunch. The funding will be... .
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Citrus Pay ties up with Milaap to enable donations through Citrus Cash app
Citrus Pay has tied up with Bangalore based social fundraising platform Milaap to introduce a new feature called ‘Lend a Hand’. The feature, which allows... .
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851M Active Mobile Connections In India in February 2015; BSNL Loses 2.55M...
According to the Indian telecom regulator TRAI, India added 9.58 million “active” mobile connections during the month of February 2015. The Active connection data represents... .
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Net Neutrality: Telcos are NOT Losing Money To Data Services – Deepak Shenoy
By Deepak Shenoy The arguments by Telecom Operators against “Net Neutrality” – or their desire to not just charge users but also website and application... .
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Apple ResearchKit now live; lets developers track user health metrics
Apple has released ResearchKit, its software framework for medical research which will allow researchers to procure data directly from iPhones. The company had earlier announced... .
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Section 66A may be back again, with a different name and packaging
It looks like the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) is seriously considering bringing back Section 66A of the IT Act, 2008 albeit in a slightly different... .
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IAMAI pro net neutrality; asks TRAI to curb excessive regulations
While Flipkart pulled out of Airtel’s anti net neutrality marketing platform Airtel Zero, more players are joining in the fight to keep India’s internet free,... .
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Blow to Internet.org as it loses Cleartrip, Times Internet, NDTV and NewsHunt
Amid growing support for net neutrality in India, several Internet companies have pulled out of Facebook and Reliance Communications’ zero-rating platform Internet.org. Cleartrip, Times Internet,... .
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Ixigo launches cab aggregator app for metros, cities and towns; inter city...
Don’t want to download a million standalone cab company apps? No issues. Ixigo just fixed that. The travel search engine has launched an Android app... .
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Dual-SIM phones are 3.6 times cheaper than their single SIM counterparts: Study
More than 78% of Indians use dual-SIM mobile phones, a recent study by price comparison service Pricebaba.com has found. For the study , Pricebaba had tracked... .
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Updated: Ola confirms raising $400M led by DST Global; $100M earmarked for...
Update: Ola’s Director of Marketing Communications Anand Subramanian told MediaNama that tier-2 and tier-3 cities and town will be the company’s focus as it expands... .
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Funding roundup: Commeasure, The Porter, CapriCoast and TaskBob
Commeasure raises $1m in seed funding Business centric hotel search engine Commeasure has raised $1 million in seed funding from Jungle Ventures, reports YourStory. The... .
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Carzonrent acquires Ridingo to provide ridesharing services
Car rental company Carzonrent India Pvt Ltd , which operates radio taxi services under the name EasyCabs, has acquired the rideshare startup Ridingo, reports The Economic Times. Following... .
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Google’s new handwriting input app supports 82 languages and emojis
Technology giant Google has now come out with a new application called Google Handwriting Input which allows users to input in 82 languages and also... .
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