Another interesting concept got its place into Bangalore’s startup ecosystem – an affordable hostel for startup entrepreneurs – the Construkt Startup Hostel. Inspired by the backpacker hostel culture, Construkt decided to create a platform that offered a cost-effective boarding facility to startups and an opportunity to connect and collaborate with their …

Content Marketing might seem daunting as the breadth of content on the internet is getting enormous but what we miss out largely is that it’s a time intensive activity and brands today are constantly trying to tweak their content strategies to transcend the set norms and outdo their competitors. Content Marketing is …

The healthcare market in India is estimated to be worth around $80 billion and a large portion works offline. A large percentage of patients tend to keep piles of medical papers of their personal health information which they find difficult to organise and track during emergencies. A digital record of healthcare data …

We all sleep well when we plan out our budget and manage our expenses and savings well but gone are the days when people used spreadsheets to keep a check of their monthly expenses to maximise savings. Now when the number of payment modes has extended beyond cash & swiping cards, expense …

Adobe launched a new suite of apps called Adobe Spark, which allow both web and mobile users to create and share visual content – like posts for social media, graphics, web stories, and animated videos. It replaces both Adobe Slate and Adobe Voice, the company’s previous social apps. The three main components of Spark are —Post, …

We hear a lot about ‘Pivots’ these days. The word has become a buzzword in the startup world and worked its way into everyday language, but what is a pivot exactly? Eric Ries first applied the term ‘pivot’ to startups in his book, The Lean Startup.  A pivot is not just changing the …

There was a time when handset makers were launching Flipkart-only smartphones because Flipkart was at its peak and consumers really liked their service.  But it looks like Motorola is switching sides and shifting to other platforms. In a tweet from Motorola’s twitter handle, the company confirmed that the new Moto …

Jugnoo, one of India’s leading auto rickshaw aggregator, has announced the launch of Jugnoo Bot for Facebook users. In a bid to broaden its customer base, Jugnoo forays into the social networking giant Facebook. The new service developed in association with Fugu enables the brand to tap numerous users on Facebook …

Jaipur-based Girnar Software Pvt. Ltd, which owns and operates online portals CarDekho.com, Gaadi.com and Zigwheels.com, has acquired Volob Technologies, a virtual reality start-up, in an all-cash deal, the company said on May 3, 2016. Volob that was founded in 2010 by Tarun Kumar and Shweta Jain provides 3D visualization solutions …

India’s largest fashion portal, Myntra, will re-launch its desktop website on June 1, 2016, officially ending its plan of turning into an app-only marketplace. It shut its mobile website in March 2015 and closed its desktop website in May 2015 in an attempt to dominate mobile app commerce but its app-only move …