Vyomo, an aggregator of beauty salon doorstep services funded by cricketer Yuvraj Singh, will become a part of Naturals with the nation’s largest salon chain investing Rs 100 crore for a controlling stake. This deal, the first where a brickand-mortar salon chain is collaborating with an app…
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With new services, Uber and Ola target value-conscious consumers
Uber and Ola are opening a new front in their ongoing battle for leadership in India’s cab aggregation business with specific services that target the value-conscious consumer. Uber aims to invest further in low cost riding options like carpooling, bike taxis and auto rickshaw services to s…
AskmeBazaar to launch marketplaces to deliver food and medicines
Online marketplace AskmeBazaar is launching AskmeFresh, a fresh food delivery marketplace and Askme-Meds, an online health marketplace, to take on established online players in the grocery and pharmacy space. Through these initiatives, which will go live in the next three months across 38 cities,…
OLA to make wi-fi services available across categories soon
Transportation app Ola will soon extend Wi-Fi services to users across segments including Micro, Mini and even autorickshaws. The Bengaluru-based firm currently offers in-car Wi-Fi services to users of its Prime category. Ola today announced the launch of Ola Wi-Fi that will allow users to auto c…
In a global first, Ola brings ‘Auto-Connect Wi-Fi’ experience
Ola, India’s most popular mobile app for transportation, today announced the launch of Ola Wi-Fi, a proprietary experience from the company’s innovation labs, that allows users to auto connect to Wi-Fi in an Ola cab without having to enter credentials every single time. Users with a one-time auth…
Uber launches UberMOTO in Gurgaon
After Bengaluru, taxi-hailing app Uber on March 30 launched a pilot of its bikesharing product – UberMOTO – in Gurgaon. “Uber today announced a pilot of Uber’s bikesharing product – uberMOTO in Gurgaon… This follows our agreement with the government of Haryana …
Ola acquires Chennai-based Qarth technologies
Ride-hailing app Ola said it has acquired Chennai-based Qarth Technologies, which has developed a mobile payments app X-Pay, in a move aimed at strengthening its payments business — Ola Money. Ola did not disclose the size of the deal. The IIT-Madras-incubated startup, founded in 2012, offers a p…
Abraaj, others put $150 million in the Bigbasket
Online grocer BigBasket has raised $150 million (about Rs 1,000 crore) in funding led by Dubai’s Abraaj Group, as it seeks to establish its turf through expansions and by strengthening its express delivery service to overcome competition from younger rivals. An investor said that the compan…
Uber resumes bike taxi pilot UberMoto in Bengaluru
Uber has resumed its bike taxi pilot UberMOTO in Bengaluru after giving the service a different coat of paint —’bikepooling’ — and promising not to charge the rider any commission till regulations for the service are framed by transport authorities. The ride-hailing app is trying to p…
Now, a start-up to track radio cab drivers
Recently, there were reports that the Karnataka government had imposed strict rules on app-based taxi aggregators and radio cab operators. A web-based tech news portal also reported that drivers will have to be trained once a year on safe driving skills. The number of hours the drivers put in wil…