Rest of World spoke with 40 riders for Swiggy in India. Many described losing coverage when they needed help the most.

Shaik Salauddin: the Indian driver turned union leader who is brushing shoulders with top politicians and giving ride-hailing firms a run for their money.

Tired of the obscurity around black box algorithms that dictate their lives, India’s gig workers are coming up with cheap hacks to game the system.

Delivery agents speed on their bikes, take wrong turns, risk their lives – all to deliver groceries in 10 minutes.

India’s elections are a glimpse of the AI-driven future of democracy. Politicians are using audio and video deepfakes of themselves to reach voters—who may have no idea they’ve been talking to a...

The Indian government has become notorious for using technology to monitor and track blue collar employees

The Indian government made its booking API free to everyone. Bots, profiteers and automation have made it impossible for people to book slots

Home services platform Urban Company helped Indian women get into the gig economy. Now they say it’s setting impossible targets and then abandoning them.

An Uber driver was mugged. An Ola driver was beaten and left in a coma. Platform workers say tech companies are doing little to protect them.

Female resellers on Meesho who leveraged familial relations to sell products to relatives stand accused of taking them for a ride.

Some people are finding their accounts permanently blocked

Hyderabad’s IT industry brought jobs and growth to the city. Critics now say the same technology is being used to watch the moves of every citizen

The microblogging platform — India’s first in over 10 languages — went from booming international expansion to near closure in just four years.

Meesho started out as a social commerce platform in 2015 and slowly became the posterboy for the segment with a $4.9 billion valuation.

Urban Company has touted an ‘auto acceptance’ feature as being beneficial to gig workers and said it would ensure they did not miss out on any assignments that came their way. But, women workers feel...

Rest of World spoke with 40 riders for Swiggy in India. Many described losing coverage when they needed help the most.

Amid mass layoffs, tech workers in the U.S. on H-1B visas are scrambling to find new roles.

The Centre wants Anganwadi workers to compulsorily use an app, but on-ground challenges have led to staff strikes.Thousands of Anganwadi workers have demanded new smartphones or a roll back of the...

Mohalla Tech, the parent entity of ShareChat and Moj registered 4.3X surge in its revenue from operations to Rs 347 crore in FY22.

For 10 years, experts have tried to bring Tulu to smartphones. But they can’t agree on how.

How IIT school degrees became a fast track to tech royalty.

Zerodha’s revenue from operations grew 82% to Rs 4,964 crore in FY22 as compared to Rs 2,729 crore in FY21, according to its consolidated annual financial statements with the Registrar of Companies...

Apart from this, Zomato has employed a way that potentially favors workers who are willing to spend more money out of their pocket.

Home services platform Urban Company helped Indian women get into the gig economy. Now they say it’s setting impossible targets and then abandoning them.

As the pandemic ravages India, a rising number of underage girls are being married off by their families as a way out of financial stress.

Courier is the definitive media title for people wanting to live and work on their own terms. For ten years, we've been sharing stories that represent success in the modern economy across art and...

Inside India's homegrown answer to ultra-fast delivery apps

“We are going back to the internet-boom era, where most of the tech founders or anybody who thought they could create a good product moved out.”

Automated ghost kitchens are coming for traditional Indian cuisine.

Social commerce platform Meesho, which has been in conversations for a new financing round, is all set to onboard a new investor: SoftBank.

Bengaluru-based Influencer led social commerce startup Trell is on the verge of letting go of at least 40-50% of its workforce.

PhysicsWallah joined the coveted unicorn club after raising its first-ever institutional round of $100 Mn from WestBridge and GSV in June.

Fraazo is a full-stack online fresh vegetables and fruits ordering platform which handles the entire back-end supply chain and front-end ops.

Dunzo operates b2c app Dunzo Daily, marketplace and B2B logistics unit D4B which collectively clocked around 8.3 Mn orders in June.

Upon some research, we found that in the last few months, several people such as Ravi have been receiving such ghost orders from Meesho

As attrition rates spike, Indian tech companies scramble to bring workers back to campuses.

Many countries struggle with counting COVID deaths. It's even harder when many deaths aren’t reported and the government is in denial.

After a pandemic-stricken fiscal year, video production firm The Viral Fever (TVF) has bounced back in FY22 and grew over 2X.

Several startups are unleashing disruptions to redefine how Indians consume meat. Who will come on top?.With this fillip, meat delivery startups have chalked up lofty plans. Many are looking to...

Last week, India saw the birth of its 100th unicorn when Google-backed neobanking startup Open raised a $50 million round.

Telangana is leading the way in using tech to track citizens. Other Indian cities are looking to emulate the model.Several cities are already in the process of setting up integrated command-and-con...

Swiggy is in talks with existing and new investors to raise up to $800 million, according to two people aware of the potential round.

Edtech major Byju’s is in late-stage talks to acquire multilingual instant doubt clearing app Doubtnut in a deal worth $100 million

Hyderabad: It is hard to imagine a nine-year-old student shaming a shopkeeper into shutting his cigarette store; but with Amberpet’s Taniya Begum, any.

Instant loan apps have boomed in India during the pandemic. First they lend people money, then they harass and publicly shame them until they can’t cope anymore

Instead of using its successful door-to-door approach, it's scaling up a new system linked to fingerprints and iris scans.

The year 2021 witnessed record numbers when it comes to employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) liquidity events by startups across stages.

Five-year-old Gameskraft—which operates Rummy Culture, Gamezy, Rummy Time, among others—touched Rs 2,112 crore revenue in FY22

Indian startups scooped up close to $4.6 billion in total funding in January 2022 according to our data tracking platform Fintrackr. 

Local language social networking startup ShareChat has acquired Elanic — a platform to sell pre-owned clothes, to foray into the world of social commerce

Online grocer BigBasket has raised $50-60 mn in bridge round led by Alibaba and other existing investors, according to four people familiar with the matter

TikTok built an influencer base of over a million people in India in less than two years. Now, it's crumbling down

CRED appears to be aggressively acquiring companies —a strategy it steered clear of for about the first two years since its inception.

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These guidelines were formed in consultation with the crypto industry and the government, the ASCI said in a press release on Wednesday.

Business-to-business e-commerce major Udaan has been testing waters in the consumer-facing business for two months through a new app called Pickily

Shunwei Capital, which has made investments in Indian startups such as ShareChat, Krazybee, Cashify and Pratilipi, has hired Arpit Beri.The move underscores the importance of the Indian startup...