Girish Mathrubootham has become a poster boy for India’s software-asa-service (SaaS) wave with Freshworks, the company he cofounded in 2010, breaking into the unicorn club with a valuation of more than $ 1.5 billion. In…
Elon Musk, SEC get more time to solve…
By Bob Van Voris and Matt RobinsonElon Musk and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission will have another week to resolve a legal fight over his tweeting habits after saying they’re making progress and need…
Pinterest soars in debut in 2019’s second-biggest US…
By Elizabeth Fournier and Selina WangPinterest Inc. climbed as much as 33 percent in its trading debut after raising $ 1.4 billion in the year’s second-biggest U.S. initial public offering, pinning investor hopes on a…
Shark Tank’s Kevin Harrington takes a bite at…
Kevin Harrington, the original Shark on the famous Emmy-winning TV show Shark Tank, sees the Indian retail space as glass half full. Harrington says the space is not fully developed, which means rather than being…
Paytm Payments Bank appoints Sairee Chahal to board…
[unable to retrieve full-text content]“I am delighted to be a part of the team which is on a mission to bring millions of under-served and un-banked Indians into the economic mainstream," said Chahal. Small Biz-Economic…
Why are Indian SMBs at number 9 in…
India ranks number nine on the IDC-Cisco SMB Digital Maturity Index 2019, based on a survey of 1,340 Small and Medium Businesses (SMBs) across 14 major economies in the region. The Asia Pacific region is…
Walmart, Amazon kick off government online pilot program
Amazon and Walmart on Thursday kicked off a two-year government pilot program allowing low-income shoppers on government food assistance in New York to shop and pay for their groceries online for the first time. ShopRite…
MyHealthcare raises $3 million in Series A
BENGALURU: Digital healthcare platform MyHealthcare has raised $ 3 million as part of its ongoing Series-A round from Sixth Sense Ventures, a domestic consumer-focused fund that had so far backed companies in the retail, logistics,…
With rising swipes, RuPay on par with retail…
BENGALURU: RuPay, the domestic card payment system run by the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), is gaining in popularity for online shopping, almost equalling the swipes it generates on terminals at retail outlets. RuPay…