Starbucks, the worldwide coffeehouse chain, will be launching its mobile payment and loyalty app in India this year. Basically, the mobile payments app is a ‘Mobile order and pay’ app, which was launched first in 2014 in the US, and later it gets expanded to other countries as well.  The app is …

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, …

Tata group is all set to heat the competition for e-commerce giants like Amazon, Flipkart and Snapdeal as Tata Unistore, on Tuesday announced that its e-commerce platform, Tata CLiQ, will open to consumers from May 27 across its website, mobile site and mobile apps. Tata CLiQ will offer consumers a …

Paytm is growing at a great pace and their offline push model seems to be working well with both merchants and consumers. Early this year, Paytm partnered with PVR and INOX for providing payment solutions and now Paytm has added another feather to its hat. Paytm has tied-up with Cinepolis, an international movie theatre …

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 …

EdTech is a tough riddle to crack in a country like India. Indian education is highly regulated and it is very difficult to bring a positive change into the traditional education system and mindsets of the people around. In India, EdTech startups have seen success but only in a few …