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Rocket Internet admits trusting everyone in India was a mistake

TMT

20 October, 2016

Rocket Internet admits trusting everyone in India was a mistake

Hanno Stegmann, CEO, Asia Rocket InternetRocket Internet, the German internet venture builder, may have made certain miscalculations “in putting ......

General

19 October, 2016

Top internet dealmaker Aashish Bhinde to leave Avendus, spend time in social impact space

Aashish Bhinde, India’s top digital business dealmaker, has decided to leave the investment banking firm Avendus Capital where he was ......

TMT

19 October, 2016

Aerospace and defence tech startup Aadyah raises pre-Series A investment

Aerospace and defence technology startup Aadyah Aerospace Pvt. Ltd has received pre-series investment of Rs 13 crore ($2 million) within ......

TMT

30 September, 2016

AskMe fiasco: End game the blame game

A fierce internal strife, mass pleas by desperate unpaid employees, cases initiated by duped sellers, volley of charges and counter ......

TMT

27 September, 2016

Management's buyout offer for AskMe unviable, says Astro

Malaysia’s Astro Group, the controlling stakeholder in the defunct ecommerce firm AskMe, has put the onus to pay employees and ......

TMT

27 September, 2016

Astro's lack of interest in buyout offer for AskMe belies sanity: Sanjiv Gupta

The management of AskMe had proposed a buyout offer as "the chequered past" of the majority investor Astro discouraged other ......

TMT

23 September, 2016

AskMe headed for a wind-up as Astro rejects management buyout offer

Troubled Indian ecommerce company AskMe is likely headed for a winding-up as its parent Astro Group has rejected the buyout ......

Technology

21 September, 2016

Mobile app developer Hashtaag raises $1 mn in seed funding

Bengaluru-based mobile app developer startup Hashtaag has received seed funding of $1 million from three investors, its ......

Technology

15 September, 2016

Sanjiv Gupta again offers to acquire AskMe from Malaysia's Astro Group

Sanjiv Gupta, former chairman of the troubled hyper-local ecommerce and grocery company AskMe, incorporated as Getit ......

General

12 September, 2016

Why is Tiger (Global) crouching in India?

From 2005, when it first set foot in India, till 2015, Tiger Global was roaring in the Indian startup jungle. ......