RIL bets big on start-ups to help lob India into global league

Last Updated: Friday, September 11, 2015, 10:03

Reliance Industries has expressed its readiness to pump in more money to create an ecosystem to build high-value start-ups with an objective to put the country on the global map as a start-up and innovation hub at par with Israel and the Silicon Valley by 2022.

Microsoft to buy startup VoloMetrix focused on worker efficiency

Last Updated: Thursday, September 3, 2015, 22:58

Microsoft on Thursday said it was buying a startup that specializes in analyzing email, meeting schedules and other work data to increase people`s efficiency on the job.

Mavin launches Gigato app to reduce Internet access costs

Last Updated: Thursday, July 30, 2015, 14:35

The Silicon Valley-based mobile startup is founded by Shailesh Nalawadi, a former Google official and Raina Kumra, who has worked with the US Federal Reserve.

Amazon partners with startups to sell crowdfunded products

Last Updated: Tuesday, July 28, 2015, 18:50

Amazon.com Inc launched a new platform on Tuesday that will help startups advertise and distribute their products directly to millions of Amazon customers, filling an important gap for entrepreneurs trying to reach a wider market of consumers.

Messaging platform Symphony seeks more funding: Report

Last Updated: Monday, July 27, 2015, 09:39

Citing unnamed sources, the newspaper said Symphony is also soliciting additional funds from its existing financial backers.

Sebi chief rues lack of IPO proposals from East

Last Updated: Thursday, July 23, 2015, 15:59

Sebi Chairman U K Sinha today said many companies have approached the regulator with IPO plans, but rued the absence of any such proposal from the Eastern region including in the startup space.

Smartphone application to revolutionise VoIP launched

Last Updated: Wednesday, July 1, 2015, 16:01

A Kochi-based IT startup has launched Ringr, a smartphone application that promises to revolutionise current Voice over Internet (VoIP) communications by its innovative data transfer technologies which can give clear audio quality even at low bandwidths.

Startup EduKart raises $1 million

Last Updated: Tuesday, June 23, 2015, 15:36

Existing investors including Paytm founder, Vijay Shekhar Sharma, former director of Providence Equity Partners Manish Kheterpal, and Stanford Business School's alumni angels also participated, the company said in a statement.

Startup listing norms soon; need to retain them in India: Sebi

Last Updated: Sunday, June 7, 2015, 16:21

"We have created separate platforms for SMEs at the two top exchanges BSE and NSE. We have balanced the requirement of safeguarding the investors and also facilitating the fund requirement of the SMEs.

Better India raises Rs 1 cr funding

Last Updated: Monday, March 16, 2015, 17:56

Bangalore-based The Better India, a news startup, today said it has raised Rs 1 crore from Intellecap Impact Investment Network (I3N or I-cube-N) and others including Myntra Co-founder Raveen Sastry.

Starbucks teams up with Indian-American scribe for new venture

Last Updated: Monday, March 16, 2015, 12:02

The new media start-up "will create and produce non- fiction, social impact content," according to the company's founder Rajiv Chandrasekaran, who bid adieu to The Washington Post for this venture on March 2.