Truecaller’s True Calling

When Swedish nationals Nami Zarringhalam and Alan Mamedi founded Truecaller in 2009, they didn’t have India on their radar, not even remotely. They had built the caller-id app for personal use, to screen calls from angry companies who wanted reviews…

GoDaddy To Step Into Tier-II Cities For Its Next Million Users

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True Caller to expand presence in India

India, which is the largest market for the app, has about 80 million users of Truecaller. Truecaller, a caller identification app launched by Stockholm-based True Software Scandinavia AB, expects to double its user base globally to 300 million, with half the…

Truecaller to expand presence in India

India, which is the largest market for the app, has about 80 million users of Truecaller. Truecaller, a caller identification app launched by Stockholm-based True Software Scandinavia AB, expects to double its user base globally to 300 million, with half the…

10 Key Insights On PC Usage In India

The youth in India will drive the next phase of PC growth, according to an independent study conducted by Dell India. “When we conducted this study, no question was actually asked on brand preferences. The idea of this study was…

Offline vendors using e-comm sites for bulk buying #Press #Media #HBL

Taking advantage of huge discounts available on online retail portals. Small time businessmen in tier-2 and -3 cities are now buying products in bulk from e-commerce sites to take advantage of the massive discounts available on online retail portals. Products,…

#GreyhoundInMedia: Offline vendors using e-comm sites for bulk buying #Press #Media #HBL

Taking advantage of huge discounts available on online retail portals. Small time businessmen in tier-2 and -3 cities are now buying products in bulk from e-commerce sites to take advantage of the massive discounts available on online retail portals. Products,…

SME Survey: What small business want from the first Modi-Jaitley budget

If Narendra Modi plans to keep his promise to the electorate of creating more jobs for our youth, this is one group he can’t afford to ignore: the small and medium (SMEs) enterprises which provide the bulk of the jobs…

#GreyhoundInMedia: SME Survey: Electricity is a pressing need; roll out more clusters to solve infra issues #Press #Media @FirstPostBiz

Lack of adequate infrastructure is an oft cited problem by Indian industry, but nowhere is it more acutely felt than in small and medium enterprises and they’re hoping that Finance Minister Arun Jaitley will come up with a whole new…

#GreyhoundInMedia: #SME Survey: Businesses want protection of low-skilled labourers in Budget 2014 #Press #Media @FirstPostBiz

Indian small and medium enterprises employ over 40 percent of the total workforce in the country, but they only contribute to 17 percent of GDP. In fact after  agriculture, SMEs are the second to fostering employment opportunities. Yet in January-February 2013,…

SME Survey: Industry Hopes For An Equal Platform To Take On The Big Guns

It doesn’t help to be small in Indian industry with a majority of SMEs complaining that they are constantly being shouldered aside by their bigger competitors when it comes to marketing and having access to technology solutions, and they’re hoping…

SME Survey: Govt Scheme For Collateral-Free Loans Useless, Need Of The Hour Is Dedicated Exchange

Fund raising is the biggest challenge faced by small and medium enterprises in India, limiting their ability to retain talents, innovate and do necessary research and development, a pre-budget survey conducted among 540 SMEs has found. Not surprisingly almost all…

SME survey: PE sector unregulated, Govt Should Step In To Safeguard Cos’ Interests

Is money flowing into the small and medium enterprises (SME) sector in India? Is there a spurt in the growth in the SMEs sector? We believe so given that the news reports are gung ho about either startup A or…

Keeping A Cat-Eyed Vision At The Union Budget 2013-14

It’s that time of the year again when Indians and all others with economic ties to this country eagerly await the announcements from the much celebrated annual financial event, the Union Budget. To gauge the market sentiment, I made a…